Process of Elimination

To successfully shop and win awesome bargains on DealDash.com it’s important to think about the process of elimination. Let me explain what I mean.

First, we need to decide what we want to shop for. Do we want to shop only for practical items we need or do we want to shop for products that are nice to have or might be a lovely gift for someone. Once we decide on that, we can look for specific items we have on our shopping list.

Next, we must determine the number of bids we will need, and how many bids we can afford to buy. If we open the auction item, we can see the average number of bids it took other customers to win. Perhaps we already have enough bids in our account balance, but we might need to purchase another package of bids.

If we are on a tight budget and want to find some “easy-to-win” auctions, we could check the winner’s list to see which products are selling for the least amount of money and the lowest number of bids. Now we are ready to start shopping. The only question is which ones?

When we start bidding in an auction, it’s a good idea to start with a small number of bids and watch to see who bids in the same auction. If you see a power bidder join the auction, we might be better off waiting until the same item comes up for auction again. If there are no power bidders we recognize and only a small number of customers are bidding in the same auction, we might want to add more bids and go for the win.

By asking ourselves these common sense questions before we start shopping, we will have a fun and exciting DealDash shopping experience.

This sponsored blog post was submitted by: Barbara L. Sellers. Barbara was compensated by DealDash for this blog post. Blog posts are written by real DealDash customers. The opinions and advice here represent our customers’ views and not those of the company.

Win a Quality Pen

I am thrilled to see that DealDash.com now has several great ink pens up for auction.

How important is it to have a good working ink pen? To me, having something as simple as a quality pen is huge because I cannot get through a single day without needing one. Did you place bids on these pen sets yet? If not, why not?  I did, and I already won a set of 20, which I plan to give out as gifts.

Here are some reasons why I shopped for these pens:

  1. Pens are something everyone needs;
  2. It appears it usually does not take a lot of bids to win an ink pen auction, so most shoppers might find these auctions to be an easy win;
  3. If we don’t win these auctions, we might be able to afford to use BIN (Buy-It-Now) to get all of our bids back free. A few of them are high-dollar auctions but some of them are not;
  4. Pens always make great gifts.

If we look at all of the previous winners, we will see that some of them won these pens for only a few bids and low selling cost while others used a large number of bids and had to pay a high selling cost. The question is: How can we win a great deal, too? Answer: By following these rules:

  1. Watch the auctions to see what time of the day or night the best deals were won;
  2. Check to see if most of the main power bidders are already locked out from bidding
  3. Count the number of shoppers who are competing to win the auction, and if there are too many, wait for another auction.

This sponsored blog post was submitted by: Barbara L. Sellers. Barbara was compensated by DealDash for this blog post. Blog posts are written by real DealDash customers. The opinions and advice here represent our customers’ views and not those of the company.

Go With the Flow

If you go with the flow when shopping on DealDash.com you will probably win more than you know.

Now what do I mean when I say, “go with the flow?”  It’s another way of saying if you see an auction that looks like it might close early don’t give it another thought because it probably will.

For example, a few moments ago, I had the feeling that the auction for the Metropolitan Magazine subscription looked like it was about to close early, so I quickly bought a package of bids with the idea of placing some bids on it. Just then a third bidder jumped into the auction, so I changed my mind. Well, I could just kick myself for changing my mind because moments later that auction did close early and I could have been the winner if had just gone with my first instinct. I cannot tell you how many times this happened to me. Most of the time I think an auction might close early, it usually does.

To play it safe, so we don’t miss another “easy win” auction, here’s what we should do:

  • If the auction is down to two or three bidders, immediate place enough bids on the auction to give ourselves some thinking time. So many times an auction closed while I was “just thinking about it.”
  • While we are thinking about it, count the number of other bidders in the auction. If 30 or fewer customers placed a bid in the auction and we do not see any screen names of recognizable power bidders, we probably should invest some more bids in the auction.
  • Check the sale price of previous auctions. If an auction closed for an extra high sales price one time, the next time it often sells for less.

Analyze it, but if we really want to win the auction and our gut instinct tells us it might close early, the best suggestion I would give you is to go for it. If we get into the habit of just “going with the flow,” we may be glad we did.

This sponsored blog post was submitted by: Barbara L. Sellers. Barbara was compensated by DealDash for this blog post. Blog posts are written by real DealDash customers. The opinions and advice here represent our customers’ views and not those of the company.