The whole game
Rules
Get the tiger is a board. You name any amount, your bid takes its place in the sorted list of every live bid, and that place is your rank. The top 3 ranks get a 3D animal to embed; every bid buys a permanent listing. These are all the rules there are.
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Any bid is valid, and it buys a listing
There is no minimum except the floor. The lowest bid the board takes is €1; the highest is €100,000, so a typo cannot put the top out of everyone's reach. Anything in between is a real, successful purchase.
Whatever you bid, you get a permanent listing on Get the tiger: your logo, your link, your pitch and what you paid. That listing does not expire, and there is nothing to renew. There is no subscription anywhere in this product.
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Your rank is where your bid lands
Every live bid is sorted from highest to lowest. Your rank is your position in that list — nothing else. €50 might land you at #2 on a quiet day and at #37 on a busy one, and #37 is a perfectly good outcome: you are on the board, with a listing.
€1is the step, and it means one thing only: to take a particular rank, beat that rank's bid by at least €1. It is not a minimum bid.
Equal bids are ranked by who bid first, so matching somebody's amount never takes their place.
One product, one row. A second bid from you raises your existing row rather than adding another, and a bid below your own current bid is refused before you are asked for a card — it would buy you nothing.
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The top 3 ranks get an animal
The podium is the top 3 ranks: #1 the tiger, #2 the elephant, #3 the shark. A podium rank comes with a script tag that renders your animal on your own site, and clicking it shows your card, the board and a bid box to every visitor who does.
Below the podium there is no embed. The listing is the same and it is just as permanent.
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A higher bid pushes everyone below it down one place
A new bid inserts itself into the list, and everything below it moves down exactly one place. That is the whole cascade, and it happens whether or not you were the one bidding.
So your animal can change without you paying anything, and it can go away entirely if the bid that landed above you pushed you off the podium. You keep your listing and your bid stands where it stands. We email you when your rank moves, with the amount that would put you back, and you can see all of it from your dashboard.
Nothing is taken from you when this happens: the money you paid bought a listing and whatever rank your bid holds, and both are still exactly what you paid for.
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A losing bid is cancelled, not refunded
Your card is authorised, not charged, when you bid. That places a hold on your bank's side and moves no money.
If the board accepts the bid — and it accepts every bid at or above the floor that raises your own row — the hold is captured and you are charged exactly what you bid. If it does not, the hold is released and you are never charged at all — so there is nothing to refund and no fee to lose. Depending on your bank, a released hold can take a few days to disappear from your statement.
We never round a bid up into a rank you did not pay for. You are charged what you authorised or you are charged nothing.
Because a rank has no fixed length, a completed payment is not refundable once your bid is on the board. Being overtaken is the game working, not a fault.
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Chargebacks void the reign
If you charge back a payment for a bid, we do not contest your bank. We strike the bid instead. Your row comes off the board and everybody below it moves up one place, your embed stops rendering immediately, and your card is hidden from every reign you have ever held. We may decline further bids from that address.
The board simply closes up behind you: nobody else is charged anything, and nobody who was above you moves.
If something went wrong with a payment, email hello@getthetiger.lol first. It is faster than a bank, and it does not cost you your place on the board.
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What you can put on your card
Your name, your URL, one line about what you make, a logo and a category. Everything on the card is what you told us, and it is labelled that way — we do not verify your numbers and never present them as verified.
Your link becomes clickable once your embed has reported an impression from your own domain. Until then your name shows without a link, so nobody can borrow someone else's product for a reign.
We remove cards that are illegal, that impersonate someone, or that are malware or a scam, and we void the reign. That is the only editorial rule.
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No accounts, and no tracking in the embed
Buying needs no account. Stripe takes the card and the email address, and a single-use link valid for 30 minutes is how you manage what you own afterwards.
The embed sets no cookie and stores nothing on your visitors' devices — it cannot, by construction. Repeat views are collapsed server-side with a salted hash that rotates nightly and is kept for 24 hours. No raw IP address is ever stored.
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What we count, and how honestly
An impression counts when the tiger is actually on screen, on a visible tab, and not requested by a known bot. Ad blockers stop some of them and we do not attempt to work around that.
So every number we send you is a floor, not a total. The reports say “at least” because that is what the number means.
These rules can change. The version that applies to a reign is the one published when it was bought.