Pricing

$1

$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 the moment this page was built and it is a floor, not a fixed price. Somebody can take the pixel between you reading this and you paying, 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, so a bid typed ten minutes ago is still valid — you are told the real amount before Stripe is.

• —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. You may pay more than the minimum, and people do.
• —The floor is recomputed on the server when your checkout session is created, from the price in the database at that instant — not from the number your tab was showing. A bid below it is raised to it rather than refused.
• —$1,000 is the most any single bid may be. A fat-finger guard, not a judgement about your money.
• —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.

• —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. You pick it at checkout and can repaint it as often as you like for as long as you 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 the50 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.

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.

• —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 your own bank at its own rate, and it may add its own fee. That part is between you and them, and it is the one number on this page we cannot tell 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 your card statement will show that charge.

All payments are final. There is no refund, no cancellation and no withdrawal — including the sniped payment in 04, which is kept. The terms 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. Write to us with the receipt.

• —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 page is out of date by construction. Quote it with the time you read it, or read it again.
• —This page as markdown: /pricing.md.
• —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.