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No. It is worse: it is honest. Ten dollars buys a line on a public board. That listing is the product. The car is the reason the board exists, and the paint only happens if a car is actually bought. The goal is itemized. The board is public. If that still feels like a scam, keep your ten dollars.

Absolutely not. Tesla, Roadster, and related marks belong to Tesla, Inc. This is a fan with a shopping list and a domain idea. They did not ask for this.

A city in Texas. Tesla set the Roadster reveal for October 1, 2026, at 7:30 PM Central, around Waco, then moved it to October 15 because the demo has to be outdoors and the weather was bad. Tesla posted the stream for 7:55 PM Central that night. Waco is not a fee, not a person, and not a line item. The $10,000 buffer is in case the sticker they print is higher than the old $250,000 Founders price.

Jonathan Wilke, @jonathan_wilke, built outbid.lol. On August 19, 2026 he posted that the site was making money and that he had, his words, totally forgotten about the tax. That post is linked on the receipt. He is not involved, not affiliated, does not endorse this, and did not ask for the shoutout. His site was a slight inspiration, and that is the only reason his name is here. The receipt exists because of that post: car, Arkansas bill, and a reserve for the IRS, including self-employment tax, so a surprise letter cannot eat the car.

The car, Arkansas use tax, tags, the EV fee, a year of property tax, a year of insurance, card fees, and a tax reserve so logo money does not become a surprise bill. Not a yacht. Not a token.

No. You are not donating to a charity, and a payment is not a gift. Every payment buys a listing. A logo, a business site, or a social handle is extra advertising on that listing. Do not deduct it.

If this works, yes, in the boring way. Every payment is income, not a birthday gift. The receipt reserves federal income tax, Arkansas income tax at 3.7%, and self-employment tax. The self-employment line stays. Logos and links look like a business to the IRS, and a business owes Social Security and Medicare on top of income tax. It assumes a single filer with no other income in 2026. That is a cushion, not a tax opinion. A CPA gets the real return. If the cushion is too fat, the extra stays with the car. It is not a second salary.

Yes, and getting it back is not guaranteed. A car has two door sills, two rockers, two quarters, and two doors. Hood and roof are one each. An open slot is the sticker price. Once every slot is held, the only way on is to outbid by $250. Your old money stays in the fund. It does not reserve the spot and it does not come back to you. If two people hit the last slot at the same time, one gets it and the other is told to try again. The public leaderboard is different: number one is one dollar more than the biggest single pledge, and the older pledge wins a tie.

The wrap price is whichever is higher: the amount left on the goal, or $25,000 more than the biggest pledge. If the top pledge is $150,000 and $100,000 is left, the wrap is $175,000. If $200,000 is left and the top pledge is $150,000, the wrap is the $200,000 that finishes the goal. A wrap paints the whole car and covers the other logos. Those spots stay on the board. They do not go on the paint while a wrap is held. Once someone has the wrap, the next person needs $25,000 more, not $250. A $300,000 wrap makes the next one $325,000. After the car goal is hit, the holder keeps the wrap for three months minimum. After that it is open. Someone can outbid it and re-wrap the car, and that new holder gets three months minimum too. The original money is never refunded.

A public listing. Every paid buyer gets that, including a shoutout if they write one and a link if they leave a site or an X handle. Anonymous still gets the listing. It posts as Anonymous, with the amount and any shoutout. No name, no logo, no link, and no spot on the car. If no Roadster is purchased by December 31, 2028, the listing stays through that day and then ends. If a Roadster is purchased by then, it stays through December 31, 2038. A logo on the car is extra, and only if a car is bought by December 31, 2028, they still hold that spot, and the paint is allowed. The longer date does not extend the paint. One wrap covers the other logos and leaves a small plate for the Hype Man and the Loudmouth. Those names are not a check. Money past the car goal buys another listing on the same board. It does not buy a second prize or a share of any account.

Pledge, then share your link. Whoever brings in the most money is The Hype Man. Whoever brings in the most people is The Loudmouth. Both names can sit on a small plate if a car is painted, and a wrap leaves that plate alone. Neither title is cash, a cut of the money, or something this site pays. A person counts once. You do not count yourself. A burst from the same network stops counting, and fake traffic can be thrown out. The names move when someone else does better. 100 visitors is a spark plug. 1,000 is a signal. 10,000 is a flare. 100,000 visitors and $10,000 brought in is just a Wildfire badge.

Only if Tesla officially and publicly cancels the Roadster program before December 31, 2028 and before a car is bought, or if a listing that did not break the rules is taken down before its end date. That date is December 31, 2028 if no car was purchased, and December 31, 2038 if one was. The refund is the amount actually received, minus the fee the payment company keeps. The thing you buy is the listing, and it is delivered when it posts. If no car is bought by December 31, 2028, the logo right ends and the payment is not returned. Missing the goal is not a refund. Losing a spot is not a refund. A delay is not a refund.

One person in Arkansas with a public dare. The bank account is not taking interviews. That is the entire lore.

The board lives in Postgres, not a spreadsheet. Visitor counts are ours, because outbid.lol watched its analytics vendor fall over. Pledges are rate-limited and idempotent. On a real domain this sits behind Cloudflare. Checkout should run through a merchant of record so sales tax on the card charge is their paperwork. The car’s Arkansas tax is a different bill, and it is already on the receipt.