May 2014 - Page 6 of 8 - DealDash Tips

May 11, 2014

Everything You Need to Exercise at Home from DealDash

Do you want to lose weight and look great?
Working out can sometimes be an uphill battle, especially if it means you have to drive to a gym, or even find someone to watch your kids (if you have them).
I was once told that if you have time to eat you have time to workout… It’s true, but not that easy. And if you don’t have time to eat you really should re-evaluate your lifestyle. If you’re overworked and lacking sleep, a totally separate issue, check out this new book by Arianna Huffington, Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder. Ok, now you came here for deals on exercise programs and equipment so that you can workout at home, so here you go!
Workout Routines
Not sure what to do and don’t want to shell out cash for a personal trainer? DealDash offers the popular Weider rip 60 workout program which touts workouts to enhance strength, flexibility and endurance over the course of 8 workout DVDs + 4 bonus DVDs, a gym bag, and a meal plan to help you reach your fitness goals.
For the ability to get a great deal on the Weider Rip 60 check out the auctions for it on DealDash.
Plus, there’s even a Pilates Reformer and AeroPilates Level 1 Integrated Workout with Marjolein Brugman
Not sure what Pilates are or the scary looking Pilates reformer? Check this article out for more info info We Tried It: Reformer Pilates from Huffington Post.

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DealDash also has Zumba workout games for a variety of gaming consoles: one for Wii, Xbox and PlayStation.
Plus, the wildly popular and effective Wii Fit gaming console now has Wii U workout games and you can bid or purchase them on DealDash as well.
Yoga Equipment & Stability Balls

Yoga Direct Anti Burst & Slow Leak Deluxe Yoga Ball is a great way to take your yoga practice up a notch. It’s leak proof and comes deflated, easily inflated with a hand or food pump sold on DealDash separately.
The JawBone Up! If you are familiar with is hot workout wristband, but don’t want to pay the hefty $149.99 price, you may be able to score one for less on DealDash.

The JawBone UP not only tracks movement and steps, it actually helps you understand how you move, eat and sleep. Plus, if you want a silent alarm clock the UP will vibrate to wake you up too. It’s a pretty intelligent little device too. It will help you understand your behaviors/moods in relation to sleep/food and activity.

Now, if you’re doing any kind of workout, especially something intense like INSANITY, P90X, running or the Weider rip:60 it’s important to monitor your hear trate.And DealDash offers deals on TONS of heart rate monitors. Do you workout at home? Have you won any great deals on workout equipment or accessories on DealDash? Let us know about it!

May 10, 2014

Build Your Kids the Ultimate Summer Playground for Less

Wouldn’t it be great if you didn’t have to drive your kids to the park to play this summer? With items won just on DealDash you can easily create the ultimate backyard playground and your kids will have hours of fun from the comfort and safety of your home.
1. The Flexible Flyer Triple Fun II Metal Swing Set

This safe metal swing set for kids features four different play options, including two swings, one shoe loop swing, a seesaw and a 6′ wave slide. The metal swing set can keep up to six kids busy at once, making after school play-time incredibly exciting and fun. This sturdy triple swing set features a durable steel frame, so it’ll last for years of outdoor play. The Flexible Flyer Swing Set requires adult assembly.
What’s Included:

2 swings
1 shoe loop swing
Seesaw
6′ wave slide

2. The Pure Fun Kids’ Trampoline

The last one just sold for $0.64! Trampolines can also provide hours of fun for adults and kids alike, plus it’s a great workout and possibly even good for your lymphatic system. “Vigorous exercise such as rebounding [jumping on a therapeutic mini-trampoline] is reported to increase lymph flow by 15 to 30 times. Also, bones become stronger with exercise.” -WellbeingJournal.com

Trampolines made with strong, rust-resistant galvanized iron steel tubing using patented T-Section construction
Snug, secure fit of T-Section assembly ensures extra stability and prevents shifting over time
W-shaped legs with 8 balanced contact points add stability and prevent wobbling or tipping and high-performance steel springs provide deeper
The 12-foot, 72-spring trampoline is easy to assemble and requires no tools or extra drilling
Includes limited two-year manufacturer’s warranty

3 The Gym Dandy 360 Degree Teeter Totter

Did you know that a teeter totter not only provides hours of fun, but physical exercise too? Kids can develop balance, agility, stronger muscles and endurance just by playing in the backyard with the Gym Dandy Teeter-Go-Round. It spins 360 degrees and dips up and down, at the same time. The retail and buy-it-now price is $183, with the last auction for one ending for as low as $1.44 (that’s just 144 bids by all bidders!).

This unique Gym Dandy Teeter Totter can whirl around 360 degrees for additional fun! In addition to see-saw motion, also spins 360 degrees. Open suspended design and durable powder coated finish. – See more at: https://www.dealdash.com/battle.php?auction_id=2237565#sthash.tbOA9h9x.dpuf

This Gym Dandy 360 Degree Teeter Totter retails for $183, but the average selling price on DealDash auctions is $31.99 (83% OFF!) – See more at: https://www.dealdash.com/battle.php?auction_id=2237565#sthash.tbOA9h9x.dpuf

4. Intex 10-Foot x 30-Inch Metal Frame Swimming Pool
A pool can help improve your child’s swimming skills, swimming is a great workout, and your own pool isn’t going to be crowded with strangers! Just make sure you check out your city/county laws for a backyard pool and supervise your children at all times.
This durable and strong Intex swimming pool is perfect to get the family together in the backyard and just float around on a hot summer day. Made with triple strong sidewalls, filter pump to ensure clean, fresh water and a ground fault circuit interrupter.
Let us know how you build your backyard playground! Worried about the expense? Check out these auctions on DealDash and save money on all the things you want and can’t live without.

May 9, 2014

Tips to Win on DealDash: Your Bidding Buddy

Do you have a bidding buddy? And no, we’re not talking about a friend who tells you when to bid against them and when not too: note this is called collusion and it’s against the terms & conditions, not to mention it’s unethical.
Tired of clicking the bid button?
Make bid buddy your bidding friend. Bid Buddy is an automated bidding system provided by DealDash and accesible in the interface of each auction item
How it works is you input the amount of bids you would like the BidBuddy system to bid for you in the bid field, you must first have the amount in your bidding balance.
You can also tell the system the start and end time you would like to bid from. Once it’s set sit back and watch the computer bid for you.
Getting started:
1. Under where it says BidBuddy – Your Automatic Bidding Tool type in the number of bids you would like BidBuddy to bid for you – then click “Book a BidBuddy”

Advantages to using DealDash’s bid buddy.

-You won’t risk losing to another bidder if you miss the bid button, if your Internet connection disconnects, if you computer is slow, or due to internet latency if you place a bid too close to the end time and the system does not register.

– You don’t know if any other bidder is on bid buddy though, and they won’t know that you are. What happens is with each bid round bids are placed by the system by bidders on bid buddy and you can’t control or predict when the bid buddy will fire or when your’s will, but it will fire when the timer goes down and no one else bids and another bidder isn’t on BidBuddy.

– Keep an eye on how many bids you have left in both your account and in your BidBuddy bidding queue, You don’t want to run out of bids and lose anticipating it to place another bid from your account when you don’t have any left.
– If you want to try to win the item and if you don’t win, but plan on using buy it now, just set your Bid Buddy for the full retail amount and forget it. Check back later and see if you won. If you didn’t all you have to do is buy it for the stated price and then you will get all of your bids back. Just be sure you buy it now before 7 days from the auction date have passed. Learn more about buy it now on DealDash and save money on everything you want!

Try DealDash today and use BidBuddy to bid on DealDash.com!

May 8, 2014

DealDash Basics: Sunk Costs and Why Bidders Keep Bidding

Hello! Are you new to DealDash and not sure where to begin?
Well first of all, let’s start out by explaining what DealDash is, how you bid and why you should try it.
DealDash – found at DealDash.com, is an online pay-per-bid entertainment auction website. Opened in 2009, it’s actually one of the longest running penny auction sites of its kind.
A variety of items are sold on a daily basis and many bidders get great deals.
DealDash can be referred to as a lifestyle brand entertainment auction site thanks to the wide vary of items to suit just about everyone’s lifestyle. From the large number of gift cards, gift cards for everything from fine cuts of meat and seafood, restaurants, and retailers, toys, baby items, video games, cleaning supplies, furniture, jewelry, appliances, electronics, gardening, fishing, exercise and so much more.
What is an entertainment auction aka penny auction site?
A penny auction, unlike the traditional auction site think eBay, BiddingforGood (by the way, real cool way to support charities and get great deals on merchandise, vacations, etc. too!) requires bidders to purchase bids – penny auctionss run on a totally different format.
Each bid serves as an entry fee for a chance to win.
Bids are sold in bid packs of 180, 400, 800, 1500, and 2500 bids and currently all bids cost $0.18 each.
Once you place a bid you will be spending $0.18 each time *Unless you get your bids cheaper, right now they are on sale for 70% off the regular price.

The auction clock is totally different too – 10 seconds on the countdown does not really mean 10 seconds remaining in the auction.

What happens is if someone places a bid after you do, at any time, the timer will reset to 10 seconds, or 20 seconds, depending on the particular site. On DealDash the reset time is 10 seconds. So say Bidder X places a bid when the timer states 8 seconds remaining, then bidder Y places a bid right after bidder X when there are 3 seconds remaining. You can see where bidder Y’s hopes of winning could be crushed at that point, but this the nature of the game and X could then place another bid after bidder Y and the timer would be reset again.
And other bidders could be in the running, too, placing bids and resetting the timer with each new bid.
But remember, each bid costs money $0.xx or if you purchase bid packs at a discount sometimes around $0.16 each bid.
The more bids you purchase at a discount the more competitive advantage you have over other users who paid more money for their bids.
Whether or not you’re a competitive person, or someone who gets annoyed easily, these traits could really start to come out once you have money on the line trying to win an item you really want that everyone else seems to want too.
Everyone is in the same boat, the way you react and the amount of bids and time you spend may differ from another bidder.
Anger + frustration can also come into play. Penny auction and bidder behavior embody the popular law of attrition talked about in game mechanics and sunk cost theory.
Sunk Cost – in this case would be the amount of money that is spent beyond the value of something to reclaim the value of what has already been spent trying to win. So a bidder would keep bidding in order to reclaim the cost already “sunk” into trying to win.
To illustrate sunk cost, here’s an example with two different bidders. Bidder X and Bidder Y. Bidder X has been bidding on an item valued at $50 – so far they are still bidding against either bidder Y or multiple bidders and at this point they have spent $55 in trying to win, but haven’t yet won it, bidder X could either give up and write the money off as a loss of trying, the sunk cost, or keep trying to reclaim the sunk cost of $55 if they bid more and end up winning. There is And while there are tips and strategies that different users utilize and win, there is not one sure tip or definitive strategy that will assure success.
DealDash’s brilliant buy it now offering helps with the sunk cost problem.

Say bidder X, at $55 in has decided to buy it now they can purchase the item at its stated value of $50 and receive all of their bids back into their account – a definite win if you wanted the item anyway but couldn’t get it at a discount. It wouldn’t make much sense to keep bidding if you didn’t want to lose more money in bids especially if you ended up not winning. Though you could try and bid more and see if you win, but when you decide to buy it now all bids will be returned to you.
Tune in next time for more tips!