Auction rules
Six spots are for sale. Front Page starts at $5, and each later bid adds $2,000. West Side and East Side start at $5, and each later bid adds $250. Back Page starts at $250, and each later bid adds $250. Payday starts at $2,500, and each later bid adds $2,500. The AI Assist payphone starts at $10,000, and each later bid adds $5,000. 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.
The email Stripe collects can edit the name, tagline, social handle, website, and logo, or the AI on the payphone, while that payment still holds the spot. The purchase email includes a one-time edit link. It works once and expires after 24 hours. The manage page sends a new one to that same email.
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.