House rules

• The bid decides, highest first. Nothing else moves you up — not age, not clicks, not who you are.
• The first 30 placements sit in the dock at full screen width. Everything else lives in its category folder and is one click away.
• Equal bids go to whoever arrived first.
• Bids accumulate. Paying again for the same link raises your bid; it never makes a second entry.
• Anyone can outbid you at any moment, and you will drop. That is the product working, not a fault in it.
• The floor is $5. Every bid is shown in public, next to the placement it bought.

A placement is identified by its domain, or by the handle for a social profile. Everything under that domain is the same placement: paying again tops up the same entry rather than buying a second spot next to your own.

A placement stays on the link it was bought with. It cannot be repointed afterwards — otherwise a cheap placement on a quiet domain could quietly become a link to something else.

Campaign parameters are stripped from the link that gets stored — utm_*, fbclid, gclid. Clicks are counted here and shown on your placement, so measure from that rather than from a tag on the URL.

These never reach the desktop. The purchase is stopped before any money moves:

• Chat and invite links — Telegram, WhatsApp, Discord, Messenger, Signal and the like. The board is for products and profiles. Link the product; not the room.
• Shortened links — bit.ly, t.co, linktr.ee and the rest. The destination is the entire thing being sold here, and a shortener hides it from the visitor and from the review.
• A link pointing back at this site.
• Placeholder and local addresses — localhost, example.com and the like.
• IP addresses, addresses carrying credentials or a port, and private network addresses.
• Any domain on the blocked list.

Every placement enters a review queue the moment it appears. Some wording moves a placement up that queue: airdrops, seed phrases, private keys, wallet connections, guaranteed returns, doubling your money, free money and giveaways.

Being flagged blocks nothing and accuses nobody. It is a crude word match, plenty of it lands on legitimate products, and all it does is decide what a person looks at first.

A placement can be hidden or removed at any point after it appears. The reasons are:

• You do not own the link and are not allowed to promote it.
• Impersonating a person, a company or a product that is not yours.
• Malware, phishing, or anything that sets out to deceive the person clicking.
• Pornographic, sexual or adult-platform content.
• Infringing someone else’s rights, or content that is unlawful where this service is offered.
• A business site that does not say who runs it. Where the law requires your site to name its operator, that has to actually be on it — a paid link to an anonymous site becomes the operator’s problem.

Anyone can report a placement, without an account and without being the injured party. Section 11 of the placement terms says what a report needs to contain and what happens next: it gets answered, both sides are told the outcome, and the reason is given.

Hiding keeps the bid and the entry, so the placement can come back. Removing frees the domain, so the same site can be placed again later by whoever is entitled to. Neither one issues a refund by itself — money only moves back through the payment provider, and the bid then follows it down.

The open desk is rented by the minute: 3 windows, 48 desktop icons, 5 menu-bar slots, 1 notification and 1 screensaver. When the time runs out the surface clears itself, in front of everyone, at the same second.

• Renting never changes your dock position. The two are separate purchases.
• One live rental per surface per placement — two identical icons on one desk help nobody.
• A rented window embeds your site. Many sites refuse to be embedded; where that is detected before you pay, you are offered a preview card at the same price instead.
• Expired rentals go to the trash on the desktop, where they can be rented again.

• Not an endorsement. A position on this desktop says what it cost, and nothing else.
• Not traffic. Nobody is promised clicks, visits, customers or any outcome at all.
• Not a ranking signal. Outbound links are marked rel="sponsored", because that is what a paid link is and what Google’s policy requires. A board that sold followed links would lose its own standing and take its advertisers down with it — the penalty lands on both sides. What a placement buys is attention: people who see it, and people who click.
• Not an asset. A bid has no stored value: it cannot be withdrawn, transferred, resold or redeemed.

There is nothing to sign up for and nothing to administer afterwards. The checkout shows exactly what will appear — name, description and icon, pulled from the site you entered — and paying puts that on the desktop. Check the preview: a placement cannot be edited or repointed later, and a wrong link stays wrong.

Raising your position needs no link and no login. Pay again with the same URL and the amount is added to the placement you already have.

A placement goes live the moment the payment clears, which is the point of it. If you are a consumer in the EU that immediate start is also what ends your fourteen-day right of withdrawal, so the checkout asks you to confirm both together — section 7 of the placement terms spells it out.

The full terms are in the placement terms; money back is covered by the refund policy; what is collected is in the privacy notice; who runs this is on the imprint.