Auction rules
Six spots are for sale. Front Page starts at $2,000. West Side, East Side, Back Page, and the Prize start at $1,000, and each later bid on those spots is double the one before it. The AI Assist payphone starts at $10,000, and each later bid adds $10,000. There is one deadline for the whole campaign.
Checkout is a guest payment through Stripe. The card is charged the price shown when you submit. Unpaid checkout expires after 30 minutes. A board logo is uploaded before checkout and appears on that face when payment succeeds. The Prize takes a logo too, and it appears on the prize sign. The payphone takes one listed AI instead of a logo, and that name appears on the phone when payment succeeds.
If another sponsor takes the spot you held, you are refunded the charge minus the card fee Stripe actually charged. If your payment lands after someone else already took that price, or after bidding has closed, you never held the spot and the charge is refunded in full.
The sponsor who still holds a spot when bidding closes gets that logo on the physical cab or the prize sign, or that AI on the payphone, for the shoot, the link on this site, and a mention in the episode and on Lectec’s socials. The site does not promise a view count.
Lectec can remove a logo or an AI name it will not put on camera. The brand name can stay until the next bid or until an admin clears it.