Rules

Rank on Outbid Green is bought, not voted for, and the whole rulebook exists to keep that honest. Everything that is not outbidding is either illegal or cheating, and both end a listing.

• Rank is outbidding, nothing else

  The app with the most trees sits first, and the only way past it is to bid more trees than it holds. No editorial picks, no weighting, no favours. Ties are broken by click count.

• No illegal websites

  Anything unlawful where it operates does not get a listing: piracy, stolen data, fraud, malware, or anything you would have to hide from a payment processor. Those listings are removed, and the trees already bid still go in the ground.

• Cheating is not allowed

  Inflating your own click count, charging back a cleared bid, or impersonating an app you have nothing to do with all end the listing. Bidding on an app you like is fine, pretending to be it is not.

• A bid is final

  Payments are not refundable, and a bid cannot be moved to another listing. The trees are ordered as soon as the payment clears, so by the time you could ask for it back it is already an order with a planting partner. Being outbid is not a refund either: the rank moves, the trees stay yours.

• One listing per product

  A product holds one spot, and topping that spot up is how it climbs. Listing the same thing twice to hold two places is removed, and the higher of the two totals is the one that survives.

• The link has to be the product

  The address on a listing has to open the thing it advertises: no redirect chains, no bait, no page that asks for a login before it says what it is. What people click is what they were promised.

• Your name and line stay yours to change

  Edit the name, the one-liner, the logo or the link whenever you like. Editing never touches your total, so nothing you change costs you your rank.