How this works
There is a pool, and it is finite
BurnBid has $150,000 in it and will never have a cent more. Every entry comes out of that pool. When the pool reaches zero, the board freezes and nothing on it changes again — not the order, not the entries, not ever.
$1,500 a day burns, whether or not anyone buys
The pool drains on its own, continuously — that is the number falling on the front page. If nobody ever entry, the pool would still be empty in 100 days. Money that burns is destroyed: nobody gets it, and it cannot come back. Buying is the only way to take something out of the fire before it goes.
Paying early buys more rank than paying late
Your position is set by points, not by dollars. Points are what your money buys at the multiplier of the moment you pay:
points = dollars × (1 + pool remaining ÷ $150,000)
A full pool pays ×2.00. An empty one pays ×1.00. So $100 on the first day is worth 200 points, and beating it at the end costs more than $200. The multiplier only ever falls, so waiting is never rewarded.
This is not a discount. Someone who entries on day one is backing a board that may never fill, and the doubling is what they are paid for taking that risk.
$5 to get on, $1 to stay on
A link’s first entry is $5. After that, topping the same link up costs from $1.
The higher floor exists to stop the board filling with rows nobody meant, and that reason only applies the first time a link appears. Once a listing is there, a small payment is somebody defending a position they already paid for — which is the behaviour this board is built around, and taxing it at $5 a time would tax exactly the people most engaged with it.
You never have to beat #1. An entry smaller than the leader’s simply lands wherever its points put it.
A hundred rows were given away
A hundred links may go on the board without paying anything at all. They hold no points, they sit at the bottom in the order they were claimed, and each one is marked as a free row wherever it appears. When the hundred are gone they are gone — there will never be a hundred and first.
They cost this site nothing, and that is a fact about the pool rather than generosity. Money nobody buys is destroyed on the clock anyway. A free row is not revenue given up; it is revenue that was already condemned.
Two things follow, and both are absolute. Every entry ever paid on this board — including the smallest one anybody has ever made — ranks above all hundred free rows, for as long as the board exists. And a free row still owes the full $5 first entry before it can top up at $1, because the cheap floor is for defending a position that was paid for, and a free row has not paid for one.
A free row may be taken down. A paid row never can — not for any reason, not by us. That is the only thing on this site that treats the two differently, and it is the right way round: nobody who has paid can lose what they bought, and nobody who has paid nothing can hold a place on the final board against our judgement. Paying anything at all, once, makes a row permanent.
The hundred are counted when they are claimed, once each. A free row that later pays does not give its place back, and neither does one that is taken down. The number of free rows left on the front page can only ever fall, like every other number here.
Entries stack, at the rate of the day they were made
Pay again for the same link and the points add to what it already has. The old points keep the multiplier they were struck at, and the new ones get today’s — which is why an early position is cheaper to hold than it is to take.
The final entry is exact
An entry can never be larger than what is left of the pool. Near the end that means the amounts get strange: if $340 remains, $340 is the most anyone can entry, and the final entry this site ever takes is the exact amount that empties it. Entries over the remainder are refused rather than quietly reduced.
What you are buying
A row on a public board: a name, a one-liner and a link, all read from the page you submit rather than typed by you. Anyone may list anything with a public https address, including something that is not theirs. Nothing here is an endorsement and nothing is checked beyond the page being real and reachable.
No refunds
Positions are not refundable. A chargeback removes the listing and its points, and the money does not return to the pool — it counts as burned. The pool is the promise this site is built on, and quietly refilling it afterwards would make every number on the front page a lie.
Then it is a museum
When the pool empties, the board stays online exactly as it ended, with the timestamp of the final entry and the name of whoever made it. That is the whole point: on every other board like this, whatever you paid for evaporates the moment somebody pays more. Here it stops.