DealDash Tips

March 25, 2019

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.

January 29, 2019

‘New’ Labels are New

How long as it been since you have opened DealDash.com?

DealDash support staff recently made another change to improve the shopping site and make it easier for patrons to use. Did you see the new red boxes that say “New” on various auctions offered on DealDash?

If we are looking for “new” products on DealDash.com, we no longer have to hunt for them because they are already clearly labeled for us with a little red box labeled “New.”

Some of the “new” items now labeled with the red “New” box are:

New vehicles
Memory foam mattress
New oil paintings
Elliptical and recumbent exercise bike
New watch
Microscope
Wireless headphones
Sushi plate (set of three)
Cooler cup
Fruit bowl

Sometimes new auctions can be the easiest to win. It’s a good idea to check them out to see how strong the competition might be. When DealDash runs the “no new bidders after $3” feature, we might find more auctions that do not have too many shoppers. If we can find any auction with 30 competitors or less, we will have an easier time to plan a working winning strategy.

January 28, 2019

Best DealDash Features

Do you have a favorite feature on DealDash.com?

Some customers shop on DealDash every day, but some customers might shop a lot more when their favorite feature comes up. Below are some of my favorite DealDash features.

One per Customer
One thing I like about this feature is that it’s available every day. All we have to do is look in the upper left corner of the auctions to find the little yellow square with the number 1. Whenever we see that, we know that auction product has a limit of “one per customer.” I love auctions that have a limit of “one per customer” because it prevents a handful of power bidders to win more than their fair share of the high-dollar items, and it might help the rest of us to win the product.

2X and 3X Time as highest bidder
Look at the green line at the bottom right-hand side of your screen. Whenever we see the 2X feature, we will get twice as much time on the clock as the highest bidder; and whenever we see the 3X feature, we will get three times, or 30 seconds for each bid on the timer, instead of just 10. In other words, placing 300 bids on a 3X feature is like placing 900 bids instead. That means our green line will move all the way to the right a lot faster and when it does, we will be able to collect some more free bids.

No New Bidders After $3
I love this feature because this usually means we will have less competition because all new players will be blocked from placing any bids once the auction price reaches $3 instead of $5 (or in the case of some cars, $1,000).

Fifty Percent Off to the Winner
This feature means that after the auction closes, DealDash will pay half of the selling price and the winner pays only the other half. In other words, if the auction closes at $50, DealDash will pay $25 and the winner will pay $25. During this feature, we have the opportunity to win some really great bargains.

If you have not shopped on DealDash during all of these special features, check it out. Features like these helps to keep DealDash a fun place to shop

January 26, 2019

Stretching Our Bids

Would you like to stretch your bids when shopping on DealDash.com? It takes a little practice to learn how to do this, but below is a list of some of the things we can do to make the most out of each and every bid.

We might want to stop bidding and save our bids whenever we see a Newbie cutting the clock. The main reason new players do this is because they have not yet found or learned how to use BidBuddy. It usually does not take too long before Newbies figure out that bidding this way uses up too many bids and does not help them win. We might want to temporarily stop bidding until they go away so we can get our fair time on the clock to win more free bids.

Double click on several auctions and look for screen names of the winners who consistently overbid. If we see these screen names appear in our auction, we might want to stop bidding and save our bids for another auction.

Check the Winners’ List and pay attention to screen names that consistently win several auctions. We can tell who the power bidders are by looking at this list. If we see these screen names appear in our auction, we might want to save our bids to bid in another auction.

Read the bio information of other bidders who appear in our auctions. This bio information can tell us a lot more than you might think. I learned that military veterans who served in special units are often some of the toughest competitors because they were trained to have a “never give up” mindset. Grandparents are often the same way and can also be very determined and difficult to beat. Doctors, lawyers, engineers and retired CEOs often provide tough competition, too, because they can often afford to purchase larger bid packs.

By recognizing screen names of the strongest competitors on DealDash.com, we can save bids by not competing with the most difficult competitors to beat. Instead, we can save our bids for other auctions when the competition might not be so strong.