outbid.lol has three boards — All-time, Today, and Daily — and a single payment ranks your listing on every board whose window includes that spend. All-time is permanent, Today is a rolling 24 hours, and Daily is a UTC calendar day. The boards don't have separate entries; they're just different lenses on the same payments.
The three boards at a glance
| Board | Window | What determines rank | What happens over time |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time | Everything, ever | Total spend for the listing | Never expires — the main board |
| Today | Rolling 24 hours | Payments made in that window | Each payment drops off a day after it's made |
| Daily | UTC calendar day, midnight to midnight | Spend that day | Current day stays live; past days freeze as archives |
All-time: the board that never expires
The all-time board is the main event. Your rank is the total of everything you have ever paid for that listing, and it does not expire. Pay $17,000 in week one and you hold the all-time rank your $17,000 supports forever — until someone pays more. This is the board most people mean when they talk about "the" outbid.lol ranking, and the numbers people quote (like the $17,000 #1) are all-time numbers.
Today: the rolling 24-hour board
Today's board is a rolling 24-hour window. Each payment counts from the moment you make it, then drops off a day later. Whoever has spent the most in the last 24 hours is #1 — which means a modest daily spend can top this board even when the all-time leaders dwarf your total. It also means your Today rank is never permanent: it decays by itself, hour by hour, whether anyone outbids you or not.
Taking Today's #1 has its own pricing rule: it costs at least $5 more than the most anyone else spent in the last 24 hours — a different threshold from the all-time #1 rule.
Daily: the UTC calendar-day board
The daily board runs UTC midnight to midnight and started on August 21, 2026. The current day stays live until it closes; past days freeze as a permanent archive of who spent what that day. Because the window is a fixed calendar day rather than a rolling 24 hours, this board rewards concentrating spend into a single UTC day — and punishes spend that lands just before midnight UTC, which is why payment timing matters.
How the same payment appears on all three
Here's a concrete timeline for a single $1,000 payment made on August 31 at 10:00 UTC by a listing that had already spent $500 on August 20:
- All-time: the listing's total goes from $500 to $1,500, and its all-time rank rises accordingly — permanently.
- Today: the $1,000 counts toward the rolling 24-hour total from August 31 10:00 UTC until September 1 10:00 UTC, then vanishes from the window.
- Daily: the $1,000 counts toward the August 31 daily board (because 10:00 UTC is inside the UTC day). When that day closes, the archive records the spend.
Practical implications
- If you want a long-lived rank, pay for All-time and accept that defense (difference payments) is how you keep it.
- If you want a cheap headline, Today's board is beatable with a burst of spend — but it resets every 24 hours.
- If you want a record, Daily archives are permanent: a well-timed single-day push lives in the archive forever.
- Watch the UTC clock. Spend at 23:59 UTC and 00:01 UTC lands on two different daily boards — the same amount can be #1 on one day and invisible on the other.