Category: Strategies and Tips

One thing I love about DealDash.com is that there are always plenty of bid packs available. I love winning bid packs because that gives me a lot more bidding power for my money.

With so many different bid packs available, however, it could be confusing to know where to begin. After winning more than 30 bid packs in the last few months, I’ve learned a few strategies that usually worked fairly well for me.

We each must develop our own strategies for winning any auction, but the following strategy for winning bid packs usually worked well for me:

Step 1

I check to see which bid packs I’m still free to bid on. Once we win a bid pack, we are not allowed to bid on that same bid pack for 30 days. Sometimes we might forget which bid packs we have already won, but DealDash makes it very easy for us to find out and make a list. If we open a bid pack, it will tell us if we have already won it and are still not qualified to bid on it again. Perhaps the easiest way to make a list of bid packs we cannot bid on is by going to our Dashboard, click on our “won auctions,” and write down all the bid packs we have recently won.

Step 2

Of the bid packs that are still left, I might place at least one bid in each of them so I do not get locked out.  The first ones I want to look at are the old ones because they often have less competition. I noticed the brand new bid packs are most popular and usually have the most competition. After the “No New Bidders” banner goes up that locks out all new bidders, I will look at the following:

• The number of bidders who are qualified to participate in the auction. I prefer not to compete in auctions that have more than 30 other competitors.
• The screen names of the competitors. I will run my mouse over each and every avatar to see if I recognize any names I have on my “never compete with list.” My list has the screen names of shoppers who have a habit of overbidding the value of auction and well-known power bidders.
• The screen names of competitors who recently won a large bid pack. Most likely, I would not be able to outbid any competitor who won 1,000 to 8,000 bids.
• The selling price of this auction for the last several winners. If the auction usually sells out for $7.00 I might want to wait and place the rest of my bids into BidBuddy at that point.
• The number of bids previous winners used to win the auction. If 8 of 10 previous winners used 200 or fewer bids to win the auction, most likely I could win the auction by placing 200 bids, too.

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Have you seen the new avatars DealDash.com now has available for us to use? If not, you can check them out by going to “My Dashboard” and clicking on “Public Profile.” That’s where we can see the 42 new avatars. We can also edit our bidder bio, see the photo or avatar we are now using, and/or select a new avatar. Perhaps now might be a good time for us to choose a new icon.

When we became a member on DealDash, we had the option of choosing one of our own photos or avatars or select one from a set of old avatars DealDash had at the time. We still have the option of using one of our own avatars or choosing one of the new ones, which have a whole new look to them. 

Why Change Our Avatar

Changing our avatar may or may not be a good idea, depending on what our objective might be. Other players on DealDash can immediately identify us by seeing our avatar and our screen names.

Our screen names never change, so that’s the main thing I always go by to identify various other shoppers. Sometimes I recognize other players from their avatars, too, especially if they have used the same one for several years. The avatars we use are not supposed to be selected with the intention of purposely attempting to intimidate other shoppers. However, there are a few avatars that slip through the cracks that do raise a red flag for me whenever I see them. The avatars are supposed to be more of a fun way to show off our individual personalities. Our bidder bios are also not supposed to be used to intimidate others.

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From my observations, I see three kinds of shoppers on DealDash.com:

• Those who enjoy playing on this shopping site because they find it fun and entertaining, but they don’t really care if they win or not;
• Those who shop on DealDash to win great bargains, but they don’t want to put in any effort to become better players; and
• Those who want to win as many auctions as possible. They continually read, research and study how to become the best and most successful shoppers on DealDash.

Shoppers who fall into the last group I mentioned above are most likely the ones reading this blog now to see if they can learn any new tips or tricks.

Since I started shopping on DealDash on Feb. 8, 2012, I’ve never stopped learning new things or getting new ideas on how to become a better player. In the early days of DealDash, shoppers did not have as much data to look at when making decisions on “to bid or not to bid.” Now DealDash provides plenty of data that shoppers can analyze to make wise shopping choices.

Data Available

When we double click on an auction a window will open up. There we can see the dates that same auction was last won, the screen names of the winners, what the sale price was when it closed, how many bids the winners used and what the estimated total cost was to the winners (the final sale price, plus the cost of the bids that were used to win it).

The total cost to each winner might not be very accurate because we do not know if the winners bought their bids on sale or if they won a huge pack of bids for only a few bids. That makes a difference to the overall cost for each winner, which is good to keep in mind.

There’s data available also on how real bidders have enjoyed DealDash. You can find the legit reviews online and make your own decisions based on that.

We can also see how many DealDash customers qualified to compete in the auction before it as closed to “No New Bidders.”

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If you are a senior citizen like me, you might remember hearing the song, (To) Everything There Is a Season. This song was written by Pete Seeger in the late 1950s and was first recorded in 1959. Regardless, a certain place or event can often trigger the lyrics of a “catchy” song no matter how old it may be. Some songs can get stuck in our minds for a while and we can actually hear them play over and over again. In fact, that can sometimes happen to young people, too.

Recently, when I was shopping on DealDash.com the lyrics to that song came back to me, but instead of (To) Everything There Is a Season, the thought occurred to me For Everything There Is a Reason. Why was that? I was just wondering why some people over-bid the value of an auction and that’s when the idea For Everything There Is a Reason came to my mind.

Over the last several years, I probably wrote about 600 blogs about how to play smart and win more auctions on DealDash. In some of my blogs I suggested how foolish I thought it was for anyone to ever overbid the listed BIN value of an auction. Therefore, I was surprised to find myself doing the same thing.

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