Shop While You Sleep

Did you know that we can place bids into BidBuddy, the automated bidder, ahead of time and shop on DealDash.com while we sleep? Yes, we do not have to wait until the last 10 seconds before an auction becomes active to place our bids.

That’s why it might be a good idea to look beyond the first page of active auctions and check out other upcoming auctions as well.

Many DealDash customers cannot stay up all night bidding in the auctions because they have full-time or part-time jobs and need to go to bed and get a good night’s sleep. That’s why I love the automated bidder. We can place our bids and let the automated bidder shop for us while we are sleeping.

If we look at upcoming auctions on pages 2 through 8, we can see all of the upcoming auctions that we might want to win. To get a good idea how many bids are required to win, we can look at how many bids most of the previous winners used to win the auction. That will give us a good idea how many bids to place into BidBuddy.

Before we leave for work in the morning, we can quickly check to see if we won any auctions while we were sleeping. Of course, we must pay for the auctions we won within a specified length of time, so it is important to go back to DealDash to promptly make payments for the auctions we won.

Isn’t it great that we get to go shopping on DealDash while we are sleeping? Happy shopping everyone!

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.

Early Bird Gets the Worm

My mother often said, “The early bird gets the worm.” As a child, I never gave it much thought but now I know it is good advice, especially when shopping on DealDash.com. Why?

Often times when a new product is listed on DealDash, most customers are reluctant to place bids on it, but those who do are like the “early bird that gets the worm.” By being one of the first customers to place bids on new auction products, we are more likely to win a great deal.

Many DealDash customers believe it is best to wait until later in an auction to place bids after other customers have been bidding for a while and might be running low on bids. However, I have noticed that auction winners often start placing bids early. Those who are determined to win an auction tend to stay with the bidding from beginning to end. I also noticed that some of the best bargains are won when an auction unexpectedly closes early.

I saw some perfect examples of that just this morning:

  • A winner of a 500 bid pack used only one bid and the auction closed for 10 cents
  • Another winner of a 500 bid pack used only two bids and the auction closed for 7 cents
  • A winner of a 425 bid pack used only two bids and the auction closed for 8 cents
  • A winner of a 650 bid pack used only six bids and the auction closed for 26 cents
  • A winner of a 850 bid pack used only four bids and the auction closed for $1.19

I was thinking about placing bids for the 850 bid pack myself, but I thought it would take an awful lot of bids to win it. I was wrong. If we placed only 10 bids or less, we could have won the bargains listed above.

My mother also used to say, “Good things can come to those who wait, but only the things left behind by those who hustle.” Let’s all “hustle” so we don’t get left behind. Why not become the “early bird that catches the worm” or the “Deal Dasher” who places enough early bids to win some great bargains.

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.

Best Deals on DealDash

How can we find the best deals on DealDash.com? All we have to do is frequently check the “winner’s list” to see what auction products have been selling for the least amount of money.

Sometimes we will be very surprised at what we find. Recently, I have found three high-dollar items that sold for less than one dollar:

  • A men’s watch auction ended for only 2 cents and the winner used only one bid;
  • A travel bag auction ended for only 18 cents and the winner used only two bids;
  • A handmade sculpture auction ended for only 36 cents and the winner used only six bids.

How can this be? All three of these customers happened to be shopping in the right auction at the right time. I, for one, wish I had been shopping for the high-dollar travel bag because I have been hoping to win it for a long time. This proves three things:

  1. This proves that even high-dollar products will sometimes sell at bargain prices;
  2. This proves that if I had faithfully placed bids on the travel bag I wanted every time it came up for auction, I would eventually win it for very little money; and
  3. This proves more than one high-dollar auction will sometimes sell for a bargain price on the same day.

Smart shoppers on DealDash still win awesome deals. Consistency pays off. If we are shopping in the right auction at the right time, we can win some awesome deals on DealDash, too.

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.

Bad Bidding Habit

Have you been using a bad bidding habit on DealDash.com?

Let us take a look at an example of a bad bidding habit.

Have you noticed that all bidders who do not place at least one bid before the auction reaches $5 (or $3 if it’s a special feature) will get locked out from bidding in the auction? Therefore, what do most shoppers do? They place only one bid near the beginning of every auction to ensure they will not get locked out. What’s wrong with that? What is so bad about that shopping habit is that shoppers who do that are all stuck in “group think” instead of thinking outside of the box.

Shoppers who think outside of the box know that the smart thing to do is to place more than one bid at the beginning of every auction. If we place more than one bid when everyone else is placing only one bid, then we might slip through the cracks and win the auction when it unexpectedly closes early. By placing 11 to 21 bids near the beginning of every auction sometimes makes the difference between winning and losing. I have seen it happen a lot.

Nearly every auction — even high-dollar auctions — eventually closes early and we all know “the early bird gets the worm.” When that happens, the one-bid shoppers will not be there to win, but shoppers who are smart enough to place more than one bid early in the game will most likely to be in the right auction at the right time. That winner could be you.

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.