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Shopping on DealDash.com helps to keep me up to date with the latest and greatest products on the market. 

For example, one of the new DealDash items is a unique hair dryer like no other. It has a BIN of $430 and doesn’t even look like a typical hair dryer. In fact, I did not know what it was from just looking at the auction picture. When I opened this auction and took a closer look I learned this is no ordinary hair dryer. Although it’s small in size, it is powerful. This kind of technology takes us to the space age.

Because this hair dryer is a new item, it only has five customer reviews, but so far the overall customer rating is 5.0 out of 5.0 and that’s as good as it gets.

According to the DealDash auction description, it features: 

• A digital motor V9 combined Air Multiplier technology produces a high-pressure, high-velocity jet of controlled air, for fast drying and precision styling

• Intelligent heat control that prevents extreme heat damage; and measures air temperature over 40 times a second, and regulates the heat

• Engineered for different hair types.  For more details about each of the five attachments, see the auction description

• Magnetic attachments allows users to make adjustments quickly and easily;

• Stays cool to the touch so surfaces of the attachments stay cool;
• Lightweight and balanced by putting the motor in the handle, which change the dryer’s weight and shape;
• Multiple speed and heat settings (3 speed settings and 4 heat settings)

A brief history of hairdryers

According to my research, the first hair dryer was invented by French stylist Alexandre Godefroy in 1888. His invention was a large, seated version that consisted of a bonnet that was attached to the chimney pipe of a gas stove. Beauty parlors became a place of sociability for women in the 20^th century.

The first handheld hair dryers, also known as blow dryers, were first sold in the 1920s and they cost from $12 to $22.  Hundreds of people were electrocuted when they dropped their hairdryers into water-filled sinks and bathtubs. Pioneering innovators like Godefroy and Gabriel Kazanjian played pivotal roles in refining early designs. The early devices initially resembled vacuum cleaners and were cumbersome by today’s standards. 

The average lifespan of today’s hairdryers are from 2 to 7 years, depending on  how often they are used and how well they are taken care of. Proper maintenance is important to enable healthy usage and eliminate potentially harmful pathogens. Otherwise, hair dryers can harbor bacteria, fungi, and other microorganisms. 

The bottom line

Hair dryers  have come a long way since they were first invented, and DealDash.com is a good place to shop for the latest and greatest one available.

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.

Do you have a worn briefcase?  Do you have a lawyer, doctor, businessman or office worker in your family or circle of friends? 

If so, DealDash.com has one item every business-minded person would love – a high-quality briefcase.

This briefcase measures 16.3 x 11.8 x 4.7 inches and  has a BIN of $2,250. Why so high? This is no “ordinary” briefcase. This is a brand name briefcase and it comes with some extra special features. For example, in addition to the top handle, it includes an adjustable textile shoulder strap. The exterior is made with 100 percent top-grain leather and has a zip closure.  It has 3 interior flat pockets and it even comes with an elegant dust bag for storage. 

That might be some of the reasons several previous winners describe this briefcase as “classy.” 

Based on 296 customer reviews, this briefcase received an overall rating of 4.87 out of a possible 5.0 and that’s outstanding. That also tells us this briefcase goes up for auction fairly often. Therefore, if we do not win it the first time, we will have many more opportunities. So far, some of the best deals DealDash shoppers recently won are:

• March 3, this briefcase sold at $7.28 and the winner paid a total of $15.28 including the cost of the 40 bids placed;
• March 3, again this briefcase sold at an extremely low cost of only $6.98 and the winner paid a total of $39.58 including the cost of the 163 bids placed;
• March 8, this briefcase sold at $6.81 and the winner paid a total of $48.81 including the cost of the 210 bids placed. 

This auction product is such a popular item shoppers are limited to one per customer to give more customers an opportunity to win it.

A brief history of briefcases

According to my research, “briefcases were associated with white collar professionals who used them to carry important documents from home to the office. In fact, the name briefcase came about because lawyers used them to carry court documents known as briefs.”

Over recent years of high technology phones and other devices, the use of briefcases has declined. However, lawyers are still one of the most common groups of professionals who still use briefcases because they often need to carry large amounts of paperwork to and from court hearings and meetings.

Square, boxy briefcases were popular in the 50s and 60s. Then in the 70s and 80s, leading designers created more slim and sophisticated leather bags. It is believed that briefcases will continue to be used for many years to come because they help make people appear to be in the “upscale their fashion game and look urbane.” 

The bottom line

Serious business professionals do not want to repeatedly purchase new bags.
They want a lasting solution and the high-quality briefcase auction item on DealDash might very well be the answer.

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.

Did you see the new delightful St. Patrick’s Day bid packs on DealDash.com? They display a leprechaun’s cap, a shamrock and pot of gold, and they come in packs of 138, 392, 482, 853 and 9234.

I always like seeing the new bid packs to help celebrate various events because it gives us more opportunities to win more bid packs. DealDash is also still celebrating  its 15-year anniversary for being the longest-running penny auction site online. 

One way DealDash celebrates special events is by adding several new auction products and by offering various special features or even a combination of more than one feature at the same time. To ensure that I don’t miss out on any of these special features on DealDash I usually open this shopping site at least once every day.  

Let’s take a closer look at one of the newest auction items.

Environmentally Friendly Candle Set

The auction description of the new auction set of 4 environmentally-friendly ceramic candles are apparently environmentally-friendly. They come in 6.4 ounce ceramic jars, and each candle has a burn-time of 45 hours. This auction have a BIN of $144. 

Regardless of  how many candles we might already have, these candles are unlike all others. They come in decorative reusable ceramic jars that depict colorful fall leaves and they smell like goji, berry, mango and orange. But that’s not the only thing that makes these candles unique. 

According to the auction description, these candles consist of “sustainability sourced ingredients” to keep the “home and planet happy.” These candles are made with RSPO Certified Palm Wax and use no synthetic dyes, no parabens, no phthalates, and use 100 percent organic cotton wicks. They do contain essential oils.

A brief history of St. Patrick’s Day

St. Patrick’s Day, which is celebrated March 17, commemorates St. Patrick and the arrival of Christianity in Ireland. It also celebrates the heritage and culture of Ireland in general. Celebration of St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland who was born in the 4^th Century, first started in 1631 when the church established a Feast Day in St. Patrick’s honor.  Patrick was raised in a Christian home but he was not Roman Catholic and knew very little about God when he was young. Leprechaun’s are part of Irish folklore and has more to do with Irish culture.

According to my research, some interesting facts about St. Patrick are:

• He was not actually Irish (Patrick was from Wales).
• Patrick was not his original name (His real name was Maewyn Succat). 
• Paddy was the original shortened version for Patrick.  Patty is a shortened version of Patricia.
• At age 16 Patrick was kidnapped by a group of Irish pirates and they brought to Ireland as a slave (he tended sheep in Ireland for 6 years before he escaped).
• He studied a lot about Christianity in Europe.
• He claimed to have seen visions and heard voices.
• Green was not the color he wore, and
• He wrote two short works.

The bottom line

DealDash shoppers have the opportunity to win great deals every day of the year, especially during special holiday features like St. Patrick’s Day.

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.

When we shop on DealDash.com we have a choice of three different purchasing options:

1. If we win the auction item, we can choose to pay the selling price of the auction to claim our winning product and shipping is always free:
2. If we win the auction item, we can choose to simply exchange the winning item for a specified number of bids – based on the BIN value of the product we win. On rare instances the option to exchange the winning product for bids might not be available to us, however, DealDash will post a note to let shoppers know about this exception before the bidding begins; or
3. If we do not win the auction product we are shopping for, we can use the Buy It Now (BIN) option. This means we can pay the BIN price to purchase the item and get all of our bids that we placed in the auction back to use in other auctions.

I decided to explore some things to consider to make our choice a little easier.

Winning products we need

Did we shop for this auction product because we really need it or want it? Would we actually use it? If we were not shopping for this product on DealDash, is it something we would go to a regular store to buy?  If our answers are“yes” to these questions, we should pay the closing price and keep our winning item. If our answer is “no” to these questions, we should exchange our win for bids instead. If we do not win the product but would buy this product in a regular store, why not use BIN and buy it from  DealDash to get our bids back free to use in another auction. I think the best time to use this option is when DealDash offers a sale price to the second place runner up. In these cases, we could get a better deal on the product by choosing to use BIN.

Exchanging products for bids

We might want to exchange our winning auction for bids in the following situations:

1. If we only placed bids on the auction product to win our daily free bids. Sometimes we place 30 bids on some random items to qualify for our daily bids free. As long as we place 30 bids a day, we can get 30 free bids back every day. If we place 30 bids one day and place at least one bid again the next day, we can get the 30 bids we placed the previous day back again. If we placed only 15 bids one day, we can get those 15 bids back the next day by placing at least 1 bid. However, we cannot get back more bids than we placed the day before. Once we work our way up to getting 30 free bids a day we must continue to place 30 bids a day to get them back the next day.  In this case, we are more focused on the bids than we are on the product.

2. If we just want to move our green time-line to the end to collect a large bid pack of free bids, we might want to exchange a winning product for free bids to get our time-line all the way to the end a little faster.

Other things to consider

Will this product go up for auction again? Some auction products close at an extra high price and sometimes the same auction product will sell at an extra low price. If an auction product sold at an extra high price, we may want to exchange it for bids and bid on it again later. However, we must keep in mind that we are usually restricted from bidding on the same winning products only once every 30 days. This gives other shoppers a better opportunity to win the item we just won. However, if this product will go up for auction several more times in the future, we could bid on it again after our 30 days are up. Perhaps next time will be able to win it for less money. 

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.