Rules

AppBid is one public leaderboard for iOS apps. Your position is decided by a single number: the dollar amount attached to your listing. Nothing else is weighed - not ratings, not downloads, not who you know.

Ranking

Bids are whole US dollars. A new listing starts at $5; the ceiling for any listing is $999,999. Amounts can move in steps of $1.
To take any spot - including #1 - you only need to match the amount sitting there. Bidding less is fine too: you simply land wherever your amount fits in the order.
Existing listings keep their amount until their owner raises it or someone passes them. When two listings hold the same amount, the newer bid ranks ahead - so matching a price takes that place.
Paste the same App Store link again to raise your own listing. Your new total has to be at least $1 above what you already hold, and you are charged only the gap between the two. Nobody else can leapfrog you by paying that gap; a different app always pays its full bid.
Listings are keyed by App Store id, so every app has exactly one spot. Tracking parameters, locale prefixes and affiliate tokens in the link are ignored.

What can be listed

Any iPhone or iPad app that is live on the App Store. Paste its apps.apple.com link, its numeric id, or search by name.
Name, icon, description, rating and screenshots are pulled from the App Store at bid time and refreshed each time the listing is raised. You cannot supply your own copy or images - what Apple shows is what the board shows.
Apps that get pulled from the App Store may be removed from the board without refund.
Mac-only apps, web links, beta invites and anything that is not an App Store listing are not accepted.

Once you have paid

Your rank is claimed the moment the payment completes - not when the checkout opens.
The listing is public. Every click on it goes straight to your App Store page through a counted redirect, and your click totals are shown on the board.
Bids are not refundable when you get outranked. Being passed is the whole game; raise your bid to climb back.

Payments & disputes

Checkout is handled by Polar, which acts as merchant of record. By finishing a checkout you confirm that you chose the amount yourself, understood that it buys a position on a public board rather than a product or service, and authorise the charge.
A position can be overtaken at any time by a higher bid. That is how the board works, and it is not grounds for a refund or a payment dispute.
If something went wrong - a double charge, a listing that never appeared, a payment that didn't apply - get in touch first using the support address on your receipt. We resolve genuine errors quickly; a chargeback filed without contacting us may result in the listing being removed.
Nothing here limits rights that can't be waived under your local consumer law.

Questions? Read the about page or head back to the board.