October 2016 - Page 7 of 7

October 5, 2016

DealDash: Half a Dozen Prizes in Six Hours

It’s true! It’s so easy to win at DealDash and with the No Limit on Wins, you can win as much as you want. Plus, DealDash features different sales throughout the week and this past week during a All Wins Free event, I won six prizes for only one penny each. The way the free event works is you bid along with all the other players and the price of the item goes up one penny at a time until the last bid is placed, but no matter what the closing price, you pay only a one penny transaction fee, DealDash picks up the rest!

Bidding during the Free events can be a little tricky. First, the site is definitely busier when all wins are free. Everyone wants to win for one cent, let’s face it, it’s fun! What I try to do is stay focused on the smaller items that are generally easier to win on any given day. These are items similar to small jewelry, simple camping gear, like a lantern, small lamps, fashion items like a purse or some perfume. These all make great gifts and I have won everything on that list with just a few bids.

During a free event you may encounter a lot of people who will come back into an auction after many players have 100’s of bids in….that is if they get a chance. The risk involved with doing that is the auction may end while you are off bidding in another auction. The following list of wins each cost me only one penny and a few bids, if I had dropped one bid and left, I wouldn’t have won them. Basically, my strategy is to simply back out completely if I don’t win the item with the minimum number of bids, which I like to predetermine. I make an estimate of how few bids I can win an item with and I try to stick to it. At times you may need to add more, especially if the auction is down to you and one other player, that’s when you hang on.

For a total of 318 bids I won these great prizes.

Small Table Clock $350- 49 bids

18K GP Crystal Ring $150- 6 bids

Hand Glazed Vase $225- 90 bids

Wool Ball Cap $85- 64 bids

Wool Beanie Hat $45- 5 bids

King Size Comforter $120- 104 bids

Nearly $1000 dollars worth of prizes won in less than six hours all during a free event and I paid about $45 for everything. I do it by staying involved with an auction, sticking to one item at a time, and keeping to my limit on bids. Most items on DealDash come up for sale several times during a day, so for that reason, always know, there is another on right around the corner.

Good Luck and Happy Bidding!!!

October 4, 2016

Jumpers and Stompers at DealDash

So, you’ve been bidding at DealDash for awhile and you’ve noticed two different bidding styles that may annoy you somewhat, Jumping and Stomping. What I can tell you is, even though it may not be nice, it’s not illegal. There are a dozen or so players at DealDash who jump and more that stomp, but they can be beat!

First let’s define these acts, Jumping is pretty common, especially on the higher retail items. As you may have noticed DealDash has a “No Jumper” limit of $5, this means that no new players can join the auction after the $5 mark. A jumper will place one to a dozen bids very early in the auction and then disappear for the next 1000 bids or so. Now the auction is at $10.00 and they come back and try to out bid you because you’ve used 300 bids or more and now they feel you’ve exhausted your quota for the item, so they’ve come in to steal the item. This back fires so often it’s hilarious when a “jumper” gets his just rewards (losing) for jumping.

The first thing that goes wrong for the jumper is the auction ends under $5, this happens more than not, but the average jumper will continue to take that chance. I’ve jumped the jumper, that’s how I handle it. By jumping the jumper, I too, run the risk of losing because I dropped out. This activity is common among the seasoned pro or when price doesn’t matter and sometimes both. Some players just have buckets of money, you have to outsmart them, and believe me, they make mistakes, I’ve beaten them all and you will too. The other problem for the jumper is they actually don’t have very many bids so they wait and wait and hope no one wins. Then they come back and use only 50-100 bids, not the 1000 like others do. They can be beat as well.

The Stomper is another breed of player, usually a new player who doesn’t understand the value of the Bid Buddy. Your Bid Buddy is the best way to win an auction, it’s an automatic bidding system provided by DealDash. When you stomp, you generally don’t plan when the bids are being placed, many will bid after every single other bid, this uses bids up exponentially and doesn’t win more auctions. Often, the problems the stomper will encounter is other players who will stomp them back. I don’t like to waste bids doing it, but others will just to “teach them a lesson”. Hey, it is a competition, and as I said, it’s not illegal. It’s just not nice.

The Stomper is easily beat, they usually run out of bids very early in an auction, they use them up so quickly that when their bids are gone….they are gone. Stomping is not a sustainable system of bidding and most people will finally give in to use the Bid Buddy. There are however, several players who have been around for a long time who stomp. Their strategy is to frighten players away from the auction, because if they stomp, you may lose the free bids DealDash gives you for your Time As High Bidder (TAHB). Your TAHB is time rewarded in the form of free buds by DealDash for bidding. For every second you are the highest bidder of the auction, you earn free bids, these bids are given when you reach your next level.

So, now you know about Jumpers and Stompers, not illegal, but not nice. In turn, I hope I’ve encouraged you to use your Bid Buddy, it’s really the best way to win auctions and earn free bids.

Good Luck and Happy Bidding!!!

October 3, 2016

Small Appliances Big Gifts at DealDash

One of the best things about DealDash is you will never have to go to a mall again for another gift, as long as they carry what you’re looking for. Plus, with DealDash you will have fun getting it and have it delivered free, that’s the DealDash way. Small appliances are a very popular item at DealDash, a lot of players will most likely get involved with every auction, so they are an item you’ll want to consider using the Buy It Now (BIN) option. What that mean is you will bid in the auction until you reach the retail price in bids….if you do.

“Binning”, as it’s called, is a great option for a small appliance because you need the appliance anyway, so if you don’t win it, it makes sense to buy it. Then when you buy it, DealDash will give you the bids you used back. That is another reason small appliances make such a good gift to go for, everyone needs a toaster or a microwave oven, but DealDash has some very unique small appliances, like juicers and a variety of coffee makers.

When you BIN there is another magical thing that happens, you earn a lot of free bids for your Time As High Bidder. This is a DealDash promotion which gives back to the player. For every second you are the highest bidder during an auction, DealDash tallies it up and keeps track of it. When you reach your next level, you will be rewarded with a number of bids that corresponds with your level. You start out getting 50 bids or more and then it goes up to 100 or more and then 1000 or more, and on and on. You just need to keep bidding, they’ll keep track!

You could win a lot of small appliances with the free bids, or at least pad up the bids you purchased to win it. Because they are so popular, and there will most likely be a lot of players in the auction, you could be bidding for hours and hours. Small Appliances often go for cents or a dollar or two, but you have to plan to BIN. The other thing to keep in mind is that appliances are a special item at DealDash, you have to shop in advance and plan to join the auction.

You can use the “Alert Me” feature DealDash has in place to remind you when your item is coming on the market. Click on the Alert Me tab in the auction and set you alarm the day of. Wait until your “special” item is on the market and stay involved with just that item. You never know when a special items will end because so many bidders are in the auction.

When you open the small appliance auction, notice in the list how often the prize was won. This will give you an idea when they might offer it again. For example, if one sold on Jan. 15, one sold on Feb 17, one sold on Mar. 14, you can expect to see the same item around April 15. If you can’t find the auction in the search bar they may be out of it, not offering it at the time, or it’s run its course.

Get your favorite small appliances at DealDash, one for you and one for a gift, shop in advance and use the “Alert Me” tab, shop often and search for your item, use your free bids to help you bid in this auction, and stay involved in just the one auction and always use your Bid Buddy.

Good Luck and Happy Bidding!!!

October 1, 2016

Change Bidding Styles to Win @ DealDash

When you’re a Newbie at DealDash, it’s exciting but chaotic. There is some wonderful winning moments and some awkward unsure moments. You bounce around and don’t know what to bid on. You’re unpredictable. You may stomp players and lose free bids, you don’t know how many bids to put in an auction, it’s a learning time for sure. But, when you become a seasoned pro, you tend to do the same thing over and over, and that behavior is predictable.

Be unpredictable! You don’t want to bid as if you don’t know what your doing, but just the opposite. Know all the bidding styles, and spread your style around. If you normally bid on small items, but leave early, the next one stay a while. If you stay you confuse the player who expected you to leave. Now you’re going to win because they can’t predict when you’re leaving.

If you are that type of player who loves to play the front end of an auction, and you do it repeatedly, other players will remember and just wait until you have exhausted all your bids and then join the auction. If you used half the amount of bids you would have in the front end, then when the other player jumps in you leave, only to return later. Something you’ve never done….a little scary, yup, but it makes you unpredictable and that wins auctions at DealDash.

Likewise, if you are the type of player who puts one bid in before $5 and then only comes back after others have used 1000 or more bids, you are not hiding! The fact that your are bidding that late most likely means you don’t have very many bids, and you won’t really last. Be unpredictable, come in the early part of an auction, and use more bids, I would bet you’d win more auctions.

Don’t underestimate the competition, just when you think you’re going to win, this guy comes in to use 100’s of bids even though it’s down to you and that player. Ask yourself, is it worth it? Should you continue to try to win, or should you just let them have it. If you don’t want to keep dipping into your check book to buy bids, back out and let them have it. Believe me, it is reciprocated. Not everyone will be so kind, but it does make you feel good, and most of all conserve bids.

If you are the type of person who only bids 10 bids and leaves, find a really popular auction and bid on that one until the sun goes down because there are so many players in the auction, so a lot of players will see your tenacity. That is a valuable atribute to have. It doesn’t really work in an auction with 5-10 people, you have to get into an auction with many players so the “masses” see it. This may mean you have to bid on only one auction, or you could run out of bids.

There are any number of types of players, you know which you are, and so does everyone else. I can predict the other players, and I’m often right. I’ve learned to conserve bids and win more auctions by switching up the way I play the game….typically on a daily basis.

Good Luck and Happy Bidding!!!