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Take Advantage of Sales

Do you know how many more bids you can get for your money when they go on sale?

Every once in a while, DealDash.com offers bid packs for as low as 11 cents per bid. When bid packs go on sale that is the time to purchase all of your bids for the whole month.

For its 10-year anniversary, DealDash has been offering all kinds of deals, making it easier than ever for us to win the auction of our dreams. In fact, I recently won an auction that I was never before able to win. Some ways DealDash makes winning easier are:

  • They designate certain times when they put several auctions on sale at the same time. That must drive the most active bidders crazy because they cannot bid on everything at once!
  • They sometimes cut off all new bidders at $3 instead of $5. By locking out all new bidders at $3 it eliminates some of the competition for all those who do get their bids in early.
  • They increased the number of “one per user” auctions, giving more customers an even playing field to win the auctions of their dreams. By implementing the “one-per-user” auctions, the power bidders are prevented from winning multiple high-dollar auctions once they have already won it. This gives the rest of us more opportunities to win auctions we never before won.

If you have not been shopping on DealDash for a while, now is a good time to return to the site to take advantage of these many opportunities, and check out the new auction items, 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.

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Traveling With DealDash

Did you ever travel with DealDash.com?

It appears I am taking a DealDash trip and I did not even realize it until I started packing to attend the National Publicity Summit in New York City next week. Now what do I mean by that?

First I got out my luggage that I won on DealDash. Next, I decided to use a large leather purse I won on DealDash.

To prevent my luggage from weighing more than 50 pounds, I was wondering how I could best pack 25 books to take with me to NYC. That’s when I spotted the heavy-duty backpacks I won on DealDash and I realized that would be the perfect solution. All of my books fit perfectly into my backpack, which I can take as a carry on when I get on board the airplane.

I took a look at that and realized that all three items I needed for my trip–my luggage, my purse and my backpack–I won when shopping on DealDash. If I had not been shopping on DealDash, I would not have had what I needed to go on this trip.

I have enjoyed shopping on DealDash since Feb. 8, 2012, and over the years, I won 783 auctions. It is a difficult job to properly prepare for any trip, especially if you do not travel often. However, preparing for my trip has been made so much easier because of all of the items I won on DealDash.

I did not even know at the time how much I might one day need to use the luggage, large purse and backpack. I am especially glad the backpack is sturdy enough and high-quality enough to hold all of my books without falling apart, and that’s one thing I like best about shopping on DealDash. When I shop on DealDash, I know I’m shopping for high-quality products.

Thank you, DealDash!

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.

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Make a Winning Difference

Over the last two years, I placed bids on a specific “hard-to-win” auction several times, but never won it until now. What did I do different?

That’s probably the question we should ask every time we shop on DealDash.com. What can I do different that often makes a winning difference?

Most auction items are listed multiple times per day. If we see an item that we really want to win, it might be a good idea to place a few bids on the same auction product the next three or four times it goes up for auction.

Perhaps it will go up for bid late at night, again early in the morning and smack dab in the middle of the day at around noon. Here are some things I’ve learned to look for that could make a winning difference:

  • The time the product goes up for sale might make a difference as to how easy it is to win. I discovered that early hours of the morning might be one of the easiest times of the day to win. However, we must take time zones into consideration, too.
  • The number of people who place bids in the auction before all new bidders get locked out. A rule of thumb that I like to use is to only bid in auctions with 30 or fewer bidders.
  • By the time the auction gets down to the last two people, and each one continues for 50 bids or more, chances are that neither one will quit anytime soon. Trying to win this auction by jumping in near the end of bidding can sometimes work. However, it seldom works when it’s down to two very committed shoppers who have already invested a large number of bids to win. In that case, we are usually better off placing our bids on the next auction when the same item comes up again.

Knowing which auctions to bid in at what time can work wonders when shopping on DealDash, too. It pays to pay attention to what’s happening. In fact, it could make a winning difference.

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.

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DealDash Celebrates 10 Years!

Wow! Did you see all the deals on DealDash.com during its fantastic 10-year celebration?

First of all, DealDash offered one of my favorite special features — having the opportunity to win free bids three times faster. Instead of getting 10 seconds per bid on the bidder meter, shoppers earned 30 seconds per bid. However, that was not even the best part.

Like never before, DealDash had some special bid packages for the special week. This time bid packages in the shape of birthday cakes all went up for auction at the same time. I saw so many of them; I didn’t know where to begin, so I just put some bids on every one of them. Later, I went back to add bids to the ones that looked like it had the least amount of competition. That was a good strategy because I ended up winning two of them — one bid pack of 250 bids and one bid pack of 500 bids.

To help more unique users win these auctions, everyone was limited to win no more than one bid pack in each size.

Another thing that made this event even more fun is that I won three new badges without even knowing what I was doing to win them. I later went back to see what I did to win them:

  • DealDash 10 Years Bidding Challenge (Gold) — Place 1000 Bids this weekend to get a discount from your next Bid Pack purchase.
  • DealDash 10 Years Bidding Challenge (Silver) — Place 100 bids this weekend to get 90 Bids back.
  • DealDash 10 Years Bidding Challenge (Bronze) — Place 10 Bids this weekend to get 10 Bids back.

One more badge that I did not yet win is still available:

  • DealDash 10 Years Auction Win Challenge — Win 10 auctions in 10 days (by 3/27) to earn 300 Bids and a small special reward.

This last badge poses a bit of a challenge. I managed to come in as first-runner-up a couple times, but it requires a lot of focus to win 10 auctions in 10 days.

Regardless, I have not had this much fun on DealDash in a long time. I almost felt like a brand new customer again.

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.