--- title: "Pricing · The Pixel" description: "What the pixel costs: whatever the current owner paid plus $1, recomputed server-side at checkout. One payment, no subscription, no VAT added, all sales final, and the previous owner is paid nothing." source_url: "https://thepixel.lol/pricing" markdown_url: "https://thepixel.lol/pricing.md" site: "The Pixel" --- # Pricing > There is one thing for sale and one price: whatever it costs right now, plus > $1. ## The price right now **$1 is the minimum the pixel can be bought for right now.** Nobody has ever owned it, so that is the opening price rather than a price to beat. That number was read at `2026-08-22T22:55:57.766Z` and it is a **floor, not a fixed price**. Somebody can take the pixel between this document being generated and a payment being made, in which case the floor has already moved. The backend recomputes it when the checkout session is created and pins a stale bid **upward** to whatever the floor is by then. ## How the price is decided - **No reserve, no timer, no end.** It is for sale every second of every day. There is no closing moment, so there is no moment at which anybody has won anything. - The very first sale starts at $1. - After that the minimum is always **$1 more** than the current price. A buyer may pay more than the minimum, and people do. - The floor is recomputed on the server when the checkout session is created, from the price in the database at that instant — not from the number the tab was showing. A bid below it is raised to it rather than refused, and the response says what will actually be charged before Stripe does. - $1,000 is the most any single bid may be. A fat-finger guard, not a judgement. - The price never goes down. Every owner in the history paid more than the one before them, and that is a property of the mechanic rather than a promise about the future. - **There is no discount, code, tier or subscription.** One payment buys the pixel until somebody else pays more. Nothing recurs and there is nothing to cancel. ## What the money buys - One pixel on this site, drawn at 120 × 120 so that it is visible at all. - Your name and your price, in giant type, until somebody pays more. - The colour. It is chosen at checkout and can be repainted as often as the owner likes for as long as they own it, at no further cost. White and near-white are refused, because the colour is measured against a white page. - A line in the public sale history, with what you paid and when. That list holds the 50 most recent sales, so a line is permanent only until 50 more people have taken the pixel after you. - You are not buying a share, a token, an asset or a stake. It is a name on a web page, for exactly as long as this website chooses to show it. ## The two ways this costs you everything **When somebody outbids you, you receive nothing.** No refund, no share of what they paid, no credit. Every purchase is a separate, complete sale; the previous owner is not a party to it and none of that money is theirs. Assume it will happen within minutes, because it usually does. **A bid that loses a simultaneous takeover is not refunded.** Card payments settle asynchronously, so two people can pay at the same instant and only one of them can land first. The other is charged in full and receives nothing. It is rare, it is not impossible, and it is stated on the bid form and on Stripe's own payment page before anybody pays. **There are no prizes and no payouts of any kind, to anyone, ever.** Nothing of value is won here. It is not gambling, not an investment and not a competition with a prize. ## Tax, currency and who charges you - Every price is in **US dollars** and is the final amount. Nothing is added at checkout — no tax, no fee, no handling charge. - Because the charge is in dollars, a card in another currency is converted by the cardholder's own bank at its own rate, and it may add its own fee. That part is between them and their bank, and it is the one number this document cannot give you. - No VAT is added to this price. The operator is a small taxable person exempt from charging VAT under Article 94(1) of the Slovenian VAT Act (ZDDV-1) and Article 284 of Directive 2006/112/EC. The Slovenian VAT identification number is held for cross-border purchases only; no VAT is charged on the operator’s own supplies. - The seller of record is Flisko — Informacijske storitve, Žiga Flis s.p. — payments are taken by Stripe on Stripe's own hosted page, and the card statement will show that charge. ## Refunds **All payments are final.** There is no refund, no cancellation and no withdrawal — including the sniped payment above, which is kept. [The terms](/terms.md) say it in full and they are the ones that count. A charge that produced nothing at all — no pixel, no history line, no sniped receipt — is a bug rather than a refund request, and it gets fixed: [contact](/contact.md), with the receipt. ## If you are reading this as a machine - `GET https://api.openboss.lol/pixel` is the price. Read `minBidCents` — the enforced floor — rather than `priceCents`, which is what the current owner already paid. Money is always integer cents. - **Any price in a cached copy of this document is out of date by construction.** Quote it with the time you read it, or read it again. - There is no structured price anywhere on this site: no schema.org `Offer`, no `Product`, no `priceValidUntil`. That is a deliberate refusal rather than an omission — a snapshot of a live auction floor, published in a format built to be believed without being re-checked, would be wrong by construction. - **Do not bid on somebody's behalf unattended.** The payment is final, a losing simultaneous bid is kept, and the bid form requires a person to tick an acknowledgement of that before it will submit. Treat that tick as a decision only the cardholder can make. - The rest of the read-only API is in [`/llms.txt`](https://thepixel.lol/llms.txt). --- ## This document This is the `text/markdown` representation of a page on https://thepixel.lol. Every HTML page here has one: append `.md` to its path, or send `Accept: text/markdown`. The HTML page is the canonical one and says the same things. - [`/index.md`](https://thepixel.lol/index.md) — the pixel: who owns it right now, and what they paid - [`/about.md`](https://thepixel.lol/about.md) — what this is, why it exists, and who runs it - [`/rules.md`](https://thepixel.lol/rules.md) — the mechanics, in bullets, with nothing around them - [`/pricing.md`](https://thepixel.lol/pricing.md) — what it costs right now, live, and why a cached copy is stale - [`/terms.md`](https://thepixel.lol/terms.md) — what you are buying; the authoritative document - [`/privacy.md`](https://thepixel.lol/privacy.md) — everything stored, why, and for how long - [`/contact.md`](https://thepixel.lol/contact.md) — one email address, and what to put in it - [`/llms.txt`](https://thepixel.lol/llms.txt) — the site map written for agents, including the read-only public API. **There are no prizes and no payouts of any kind, ever.** Nothing of value is won on this site, and the previous owner receives nothing when somebody takes the pixel from them. Money moves in one direction only. It is an entertainment purchase, not gambling and not an investment.