The rules
ClimbBid sells attention and says so. This page is the whole mechanism: what a bid buys, how positions are decided, what happens when you are outbid, and what gets measured.
A bid buys a position on the board for 30 days. It is a placement fee, not an auction deposit: the money is charged once, up front, through Razorpay.
To take a position you must beat the standing bid by the increment — the larger of $1 and 0% of the current bid. Cheap slots stay reachable; expensive ones stay meaningful.
Entry to the board starts at $2.
Products are ordered by the value of their active bid, highest first. There is no quality score, no editorial weighting and no secret multiplier.
If two products hold the same amount, the one that got there first ranks higher. Reaching a number earlier is worth something.
Ranks are recalculated on the server whenever a payment is confirmed, never from anything the browser reports.
When someone pays more than you, your listing stays on the board — it moves down to its new position, and your previous bid is marked as outbid.
You are notified immediately, in the app and by the notification centre, with the amount needed to take the position back.
Nothing is refunded when you are outbid: you were paid up for the position you held while you held it.
An impression is counted the first time your listing is at least half visible in someone's viewport, once per visitor per page view.
A click is counted when a visitor follows the link to your site. Outbound links carry rel=nofollow, so nothing here is an attempt to manipulate search rankings.
Both are visible to you per day, next to the position you held that day, so you can see what a slot was actually worth.
Checkout runs through Razorpay. ClimbBid never sees or stores a card number.
A bid is only activated after Razorpay confirms the payment to our server over a signed webhook. A browser returning from checkout proves nothing on its own and does not change the board.
If a payment fails, the bid is marked failed and the board is untouched.
Products that misrepresent what they do, sites that are broken or parked, and anything unlawful get rejected in review or suspended afterwards.
Suspension removes the listing from the board. Money already spent on a suspended listing is not refunded except where the suspension was our error.
Every position on ClimbBid is a paid placement and is labelled as such throughout the product.
Ready to take a position?
No account needed. You pay once, when you take a position.