Category: Strategies and Tips

Did you ever have second thoughts about placing bids you already have in an attempt to get more bids out of an auction that you may or may not win? Using the BIN option for bid pack auctions does not make much sense when we can simply purchase more bids on sale for less money.

I used to think that it only made sense to bid on small bid pack auctions that might be easier to win. However, I have learned that sometimes the big bid pack auctions are even easier to win than the small ones, but why?  Perhaps other customers are of the same mindset and believe the big bid pack auctions are more difficult to win so fewer players decide to bid on them. But let’s take a look at the facts based on what I saw yesterday when I looked at the “Winner’s List.”

• A 175 bid pack auction ended for 2 cents;
• A 200 bid pack auction ended for 11 cents;
• A 650 bid pack auction ended for 5 cents; and
• A 900 bid pack auction ended for only 15 cents.

So what does this mean? It means that if we consistently place only 15 bids on every large bid pack auction, eventually we could win one.

In just one 24-hour period, several bid pack auctions, both small and large, sold for an amazingly low price. Who would have ever guessed that a 900 bid pack auction could end for as little as 15 cents? Not me, but it happens every once in a while. These winning streaks appear to come and go, and all we have to do is be there at the right time.

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.

Why should we check out our “Dashboard” on DealDash.com?

If we open “My Dashboard” we will see a list of items on the left side:  Dashboard home, Badges, Public profile, Buy bids, Buy It Now history, Transaction history, Bidding history, Won auctions, My orders, Redeem gift card, Account details, Bookmarked auctions and Contact support. In other words, “My Dashboard” is the place to go to find out just about any information you might want or need.

For example, I wanted to know how many total auctions I won since I first started shopping on DealDash on Feb. 8, 2012. By clicking on “Account details,” I learned that I won a total of 789 auctions because DealDash kept track of that information for me.

I also wanted to have some more bids, but it was not yet in my budget to purchase any more bid packs. By clicking on “Won auctions,” I was able to earn 20 more bids simply by providing two simple reviews of two auctions I recently won. This is one of the easiest ways to earn extra bids. All we have to do is look for the offer in green letters, click on it, give a star rating and write a few words saying what we thought of the product. If we won an auction product that we did not yet receive, this is also the place we can go to track our winning items to find out when they will arrive.

If we want to update or change what we wrote in our “Bidder Bio,” all we have to do is go to click on “Public profile.” That’s where we will have the opportunity to update this information. This is also where we can update our icon or photo.

“Badges” is another one I like to check out once in a while. It’s fun to count the number of badges I have already completed. It’s also fun to look at the badges that are almost completed. Sometimes I only need to win one or two more specific auctions to win a new badge. That helps me to plan ahead and decide what auctions I might want to win next.

“My Dashboard” makes everything so easy to find because DealDash keeps track of all of this data for us. Check it out sometime.

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 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.

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.