Ten rules, and one of them matters more than the rest.
Evict applies a Harberger tax — a self-assessed property tax with a compulsory purchase option — to advertising placement. You set your own price, you pay rent on that price, and that price is a standing offer anyone can accept.
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Claim
An unheld slot is yours for its floor price. When you claim it you declare a price — any amount at or above the floor.
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Rent
You pay 5% of your own declared price per day, computed per second and drawn from your prepaid balance. Price it high and it costs you more to keep.
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Anyone can buy it
At exactly the price you declared. No auction, no countdown, no negotiation. You receive 90% of the sale; Evict keeps 10%.
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Repricing after a buyout
A new holder declares their price within 10 minutes, or the slot reverts to its floor. Any price is allowed, including lower than what you paid.
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Price changes are announced
A change is public immediately and takes effect 60 seconds later. Nobody can raise their price the instant they see a buy coming.
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Immunity window
A slot cannot be bought for 10 minutes after it changes hands, so a new holder has time to set a price.
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Locked quotes
The price shown when you open a buy panel is held for 90 seconds. What you see is what you pay.
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Running out
When your balance hits zero you get 6 hours of grace, with warnings at 24h, 6h and 1h before. After that the slot is released back to its floor and your listing drops off the board. Nothing is deleted — you can reclaim later.
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One global, one category
A listing may hold at most one slot on the global board and one on a category board. Inventory is fixed, so nobody can buy the whole fold.
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Credit is not cash
Money paid in is spent on rent and buyouts. Proceeds from being bought out arrive as site credit, which is spendable here and never cashed out.
Why proceeds are credit, not cash
In classic Harberger, the incumbent is paid cash when they're bought out. Evict pays site credit instead. That's a deliberate design decision, not a limitation we're working around.
Paying arbitrary users cash would make this money transmission, with the licensing, KYC and fraud surface that implies. Credit keeps Evict what it actually is: prepayment for advertising placement. It also means the money stays in the system, which is why a buyout leaves you able to immediately take the slot back.
Credit is spendable on rent and buyouts. It is never withdrawn, transferred or converted to cash.
Money in, and money back
You top up a balance — minimum $10 — and every action after that is an internal ledger movement with no per-transaction fee. That's why there's a wallet rather than a card prompt on every click.
Balance is not refundable. Once added, it is spent on rent, claims and buyouts — it is never returned to your card and never cashed out. Add what you intend to spend.
This is not gambling
There is no chance element, no pot, no wager and no prize. Buyouts are fixed-price commercial transactions for advertising placement, at a price the seller published in advance. Nothing here is decided by a draw, a timer or a random reshuffle.