Refund policy
What you’re paying for — and what you’re not.
- You’re paying for the rank. Every payment buys one thing: a spot on the board. You’re paying to be seen at that position — not for a service, a subscription, or any outcome. Your payment is applied to your listing the moment it completes.
- There are no refunds. Because your payment is spent securing a live spot on the board, all payments are final. This includes changing your mind, outbidding yourself, or deciding later that the rank wasn’t worth it.
- Nobody can guarantee you stay on top. That’s the essence of the platform. Anyone can pay more than you at any moment and take your spot — that’s the whole game. There is no protection from being outbid, no way to “lock in” a rank, and no refund if someone outbids you or your rank drops. Rank is the bid: whoever’s paid the most is on top, and that can change at any second.
- The only exception — genuine platform errors. If a payment completes but never applies to the board (for example a double charge or a technical failure on our side), contact us and we’ll make it right — by correcting your rank or refunding the erroneous charge. This is the only situation where a refund is possible.
Campaigns & fees
Demand validation campaigns have their own money rules — same logic, you’re paying for consideration, not an outcome.
- The $0.50 pitch entry fee is non-refundable. It’s an application fee — you’re buying the brand’s consideration, nothing more. It’s charged the moment you enter a campaign and is not returned if your pitch isn’t selected, the campaign changes, or you change your mind.
- The $100 campaign fee is non-refundable once the campaign goes active. Brands pay it to launch a campaign; once the campaign is live and accepting pitches it’s spent on running it. Before it goes active (or if a genuine platform error prevents it from ever launching) we’ll work with you, but once it’s live it’s final.
- Reward-pool vouchers are issued only for features the brand funds. The pool is brand money distributed as gift vouchers to contributors whose suggestions the brand chooses to fund. If a brand never funds a feature, no voucher is owed — the pool isn’t a participation prize.
- Brand-handled paid signups are between you and the brand. When a campaign opens signups on the brand’s own site, payment flows directly to the brand — we don’t process or hold that money, so we can’t refund it. Resolve those directly with the brand.
By placing a bid or entering a campaign you acknowledge that you’ve read and accept this refund policy, along with the network rules. Rank is the bid — nothing else.