Every rule, printed
A pay-to-rank board only works if the rules are public and the code does not quietly add to them. These are all of them, including the two or three that are awkward for us.
To open any board
£10
Categories
11
Areas
75
VAT
None
not registered yet
How a rank works
- 01
Rank is what you pay
No editorial ranking, no featured placement outside the auction, and no way for us to move a venue up. If a position cannot be explained by an amount in the public log, it does not exist.
- 02
Claiming a rank quotes that rank
The price of rank four is whatever its holder paid plus that category's raise. Not the price of rank one. Every rank on every board is independently for sale, and the button always names the rank the money actually buys.
- 03
One payment, held until outbid
Nothing is charged daily, there is no subscription, and there is no balance that can quietly expire and cost you a rank you already paid for. You hold the position until somebody pays more than you did.
- 04
A tie never pushes anybody down
Boards are ordered by amount, then by who got there first. Matching the venue above you puts you directly beneath them, which is the rank you clicked and the rank you paid for.
- 05
Raising your own bid costs the difference
Going from £40 to £90 costs £50, not £90. You are topping up a position you already hold, not buying it twice.
- 06
The log is the truth
Every bid is appended to a history that is never edited or deleted. Rank, movement and every number on the analytics page are computed from it, and anybody reading the same log can reproduce them.
- 07
A visit is somebody walking in
We do not count clicks. An offer is issued as a single-use code, staff redeem it at the door with their own PIN, and only then is it a visit. A board with nothing counted yet says so rather than dividing by zero.
- 08
We take nothing after that
No commission on the bill, no cut of the booking, no fee on what a venue and a visitor do once they have met. The rank is the only thing being sold.
The awkward bits
Consequences of the rules above that are not in our favour. They are here because finding them out later is worse.
One increment can buy more than you aimed at
On a board where two venues sit closer together than one raise, paying one raise over #2 can exceed what #1 holds, and the claim lands at #1 for less than #1's own button asks. We do not reprice it to hide that. The button always names the rank the money actually buys.
A rank you lose does not refund
A bid buys the position for as long as nobody beats it, which might be a month or might be an afternoon. Anything a rank did not consume stays as credit on the account rather than coming back.
Media follows the rank, not the payment
The top three run a tour instead of a photograph. Drop to fourth and the tour stops showing the day the rank moves. The link stays saved, so taking the rank back brings it back.
What each category costs
Every board opens at the same price. What differs is the raise: the minimum step over whoever is above you.
- Nightlife£25a raise
- Pubs & bars£15a raise
- Restaurants£20a raise
- Cafés & brunch£10a raise
- Live & events£20a raise
- Shopping£10a raise
- Culture£15a raise
- Wellness & gyms£15a raise
- Experiences£20a raise
- Luxury & members£50a raise
- Stay£25a raise
What a £100 bid costs you
One hundred pounds. We are not registered for VAT, so no VAT is charged on top and none is shown anywhere on this site. If that changes we will say so here before it changes on an invoice.