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whowins.lolNot just price. A battle.
The whole rulebook · two stages

The rank isn't only price, it's a battle now!

Stage 1 runs all the time and takes one payment. Stage 2 is the challenge: a clock, a seat that keeps changing hands, and a lock at the end.

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Stage 1

Take the seat

Always on
  1. 01Pick a seat on any board. A seat nobody has paid for is a flat $5, the same on every board and in every position.
  2. 02To take a seat that already has a holder, pay more than the last payment on it. The board shows you that amount and what it costs you right now.
  3. 03The seat changes hands the moment the payment clears. No account, no queue and no review.
  4. 04You sit there and keep every visit your listing sends out. There is no renewal and no second charge.
  5. 05The price stays with the seat, not with the product. Take a different seat and you start from the number that seat is carrying.
Stage 2

The open challenge

Optional
  1. 01A board opens up to challenges once its first 10 seats are taken, so a board that is still filling up carries no clocks yet.
  2. 02Going for a seat, you can open a challenge on it. A clock starts, everybody looking at the board can see it, and it is part of taking the seat rather than a second charge.
  3. 03While the clock runs the seat can change hands any number of times. Nothing pauses it and nobody can call it early.
  4. 04A take in the last 10 minutes puts the clock back to the top of that window, so waiting for the final second buys you nothing.
  5. 05At zero, whoever is in the seat keeps it for another two days. Nobody can take it in that window, at any amount.
  6. 06When the lock ends the seat goes back to stage 1 and carries on from the amount it closed at.

What a challenge gives you while the clock runs

  • Your seat is pinned to the top of the board with the clock running on the row.
  • A card on the home page and on the challenge page, with both sides and the amount on the table.
  • An IN A CHALLENGE badge on your row and on every line you put in the activity feed.
  • Hold it to zero and your listing keeps a WON A CHALLENGE badge with the date and the closing amount.

The rest of it

  • One clock per seat. If a seat already has one running, taking that seat puts you on the clock that is there rather than starting a new one.
  • A seat under lock cannot be taken and cannot be put on a clock, at any amount, until the lock ends.
  • If nobody comes for the seat, the clock still runs out and the person sitting there still gets the lock.
  • A clock at zero is settled straight away, so nothing can be taken after the fact.

You never have to open one. A seat with no clock on it works exactly the same, minus the lock at the end. A challenge is for people who want a stretch of time nobody can buy into. See the challenges running now.

What decides it

No show of hands, no jury, no bar to clear, no waiting list.

Not in stage 1, and not in a challenge either.
Anything a crowd can do without paying, a crowd can also fake without paying.A payment is the one signal on this site that costs the person making it something they cannot get back, and it is confirmed by the payment provider rather than by the person who benefits from it. So the board does not ask who is most popular. It asks who is willing to pay the most to stand at the front, and it says so plainly.

Starting from an empty board

Most of the board has a holder by now, so most seats cost more than the $5 entry. The empty ones are still down there.

What we count and show

  • The visits we send to your site, so you can tell whether a seat was worth it.
  • The amount last paid for a seat, but never the name of whoever paid it.
  • How many times a seat changed hands in a challenge, and what that challenge closed at.

What we will not do

  • Charge you again for a seat you already paid for, or turn it into a subscription.
  • Take a seat off somebody who paid for it, except for abuse or a legal demand.
  • Hide the amount last paid for a seat, or spring a different one on you at checkout.
  • Move anyone up or down because we felt like it.

What the payment buys

  • A permanent profile page for your link.
  • A place on the board you picked, and on the overall board above it.
  • A counter of the visits we send you.
  • A generated share image and share links.

What it does not buy

  • It does not buy the seat for good. There is no seat here that cannot change hands.
  • It does not buy a guaranteed number of visitors or customers.
  • It is not a wager, and there is nothing random about it.

Paying

One payment, one seat. Nothing renews and nothing is charged again. Every amount on this site is in US dollars, and the amount printed on a seat is read again the moment the checkout opens, so the number you agreed to is the number you are asked for.

[object Object] is the merchant of record and takes the payment, so your card details never reach us and we never store them. The invoice comes from them, in their name.