The five-figure bids

Seven listings paid five figures to sit at the top of outbid.lol. What that money bought varies more than the amounts do: the same $10,000 to $15,000 bought anywhere between 1,393 and 14,227 clicks, so the cost per click across this group runs from $0.79 to $10.07, a thirteenfold spread on placements that look identical from the outside. The pattern underneath is who the product sells to. Consumer AI and compliance software collected the cheap traffic; a developer API paid ten dollars a visitor for the same position.