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The rules

There is exactly one: rank is the bid. Everything below is the fine print on that.

Bidding

  • New listings start at 199. Bids are whole rupees, up to a maximum of 99,99,999.
  • Rank is the bid — nothing else. Not traction, not revenue, not who you know. The highest bid sits at #1.
  • To move above someone, you must clear their bid by at least 99.
  • Equal bids keep the order they were placed in. The older bid holds the higher rank.
  • Submitting a website or handle that is already on the board raises that listing instead of creating a second one — and you only pay the difference between the current bid and your new one. One domain gets one row, whatever path you submit.
  • A raise moves the bid and nothing else. The name, one-liner, city, and sector are set by the bid that created the listing and cannot be changed by a later raise — otherwise ₹99 would buy the ability to rewrite somebody else's listing. To edit your own details, email us from an address on that domain.
  • Your rank holds until somebody outbids you. There is no time limit, no expiry, and no renewal fee.

Boards

  • Every listing ranks on three boards at once: All India, its city, and its sector. One bid, three rankings.
  • Raising your bid moves you on all three simultaneously. You cannot bid separately per board.
  • A listing sits on one city board and one sector board. Ask us if you need it moved.

What can be listed

  • Allowed: a product or company website, or an X profile (@handle).
  • Not allowed: chat and invite links (Discord, Telegram, WhatsApp, Slack), link shorteners, adult content, betting and satta, loan-app scams, and anything illegal in India.
  • Query parameters are stripped from every link. Affiliate, referral, and UTM tracking URLs will not work — the listing points at the clean URL.
  • Names and one-liners are limited to 40 and 90 characters. Impersonating another company gets the listing removed.

Clicks and traffic

  • Outbound links route through /go/ so clicks can be counted. Visitors land on exactly the URL you submitted, with no parameters appended.
  • Click counts are public on every listing. There is no guarantee of traffic — a rank buys position, not results.
  • Listings are marked rel="sponsored nofollow". Bidding here will not pass SEO link equity, and it is not intended to.

Refunds

  • Pay by UPI, then submit your transaction reference (UTR). Every payment is checked against the bank by hand, so your rank goes live once we confirm it, not instantly — usually within a few hours. Submitting a reference on its own does not claim a rank.
  • Once the payment is confirmed and the rank applied, bids are final and non-refundable — including when someone outbids you a minute later. That is the game.
  • Pay the exact amount shown on the payment page. Wrong amounts are refunded, not adjusted.
  • If a payment is charged but no rank appears within 30 minutes, contact us and it will be applied or refunded in full.
  • If we remove your listing for breaking the content rules above, no refund is given. If we remove it for any other reason, or shut the site down, unspent bids are refunded.
  • Payments are plain UPI in INR. Refunds are sent back to the UPI account the payment came from, normally within three working days of being agreed.

Moderation

  • We can hide or remove any listing that breaks these rules, at our discretion, without notice.
  • Attempting to manipulate click counts, the live-visitor counter, or the bid flow gets the listing removed and the bid forfeited.
  • Listings are paid placements, not endorsements. Nothing on this board has been verified, diligenced, or vetted. Do your own homework before you send anyone money.

Still here? Go take a rank.

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