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The world’s cheapest ad auction
Howlowwillyougo?
It stopped. Nobody moved.
Price of the entire homepage
Wait longer and it gets cheaper. Wait too long and someone else takes it.
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Hall of Cheapskates
Who held their nerve the longest.
- Slots sold
- 4
- Record low
- $14.73
- Average
- $78.36
- Total spent
- $313.44
How the auction works
Three things can happen
Wait.
The price opens at $100 and falls ten cents a second. Doing absolutely nothing makes it cheaper. This is the only part of advertising that works like that.
Claim.
Hit the button and you pay exactly the number on it. Nothing is held for you while you pay, so the first payment through wins it, and whoever gets there first is guaranteed at least an hour on the homepage.
Regret.
Or someone beats you to it at a price you would have gladly paid, and the whole thing restarts at $100. You get to watch them enjoy the headline for the next hour. There is a way to skip the waiting entirely, and it costs more than the auction ever will.
Reasonable questions
Is this real?
Yes. Real card, real charge, real link on a real homepage. The premise is stupid. The transaction is not.
What do I actually get?
Your logo, name, one line of copy and a link sitting at the top of underbid.lol, plus a permanent entry in the Hall of Cheapskates with the amount you paid attached to it forever.
How long do I stay up there?
At least an hour, guaranteed. You are the headline until somebody else claims, and after that you move down to Still up but stay on the homepage until your hour is done. If nobody claims after you, you keep the headline for as long as that lasts.
Can I pay more to get a better spot?
No, and that is the whole point. The Hall is sorted cheapest first, so money moves you down it, not up. What money can buy is time: skip the waiting and take a fixed run of six hours, a day or a week instead of the standard hour. You get longer, never higher.
What happens if it reaches the bottom?
It stops at one dollar and waits there. That is about as low as a card payment can physically go, so it is the cheapest this can ever get. If nobody wants an entire homepage for a dollar, that tells you something about attention that we are not qualified to explain.
Can I just wait for a dollar every single time?
You can. So can everyone else. Good luck.
Refunds?
No, if you win it. But nothing is reserved while you pay. Several people can be at checkout at once and only the first payment through takes the slot. If somebody beats you to it, you are refunded in full, automatically, without having to ask.