DealDash Tips

October 12, 2016

Play Fair, It Helps You Win at DealDash

There are plenty of bidding styles at DealDash, but the game players despise the most is when someone doesn’t play fair. It takes some time to get to know who does it, and new players join everyday, but you can figure out which players to simply stay away from. They win a lot, but they spend a lot too.

You don’t wan to get into a boxing match with someone, by that I mean a stomper festival. You stomp, the other guy stomps, and then you stomp again, he stomps again, and no one else is getting in any bids through Bid Buddy because of the stomper fest going on. You and that other guy suddenly have over 50 bids used, and every one who wasn’t stomping only has 5 used. It’s a waste of bids and just not fair. The biggest travesty with Stomping is you are losing the opportunity to earn free bids for your Time As High Bidder. Plus, you most likely won’t win, the player using the Bid Buddy will come out victorious. So, this one is simple, if you don’t stomp, the other players probably won’t either.

Your Time As High Bidder (TAHB) is a huge gift from DealDash and it basically rewards good behavior with free bids, for example, if you use the Bid Buddy, you bid when it’s your turn, and if everyone else does it too, everyone gets 10 seconds toward the next level. When you reach your next level you will receive the free bids, if you stomp, you don’t get the time and therefore, no free bids. You also stomp other peoples free bids and that really hurts other players. So, if you are known as a Stomper, you are winning less bids and losing more auctions, If you let everyone have their free bids, they might let you win this time.

I let people who play fair win all the time, you have to. It comes back to you. You have to get to know the players to know who might back down eventually. Then there is “backing down”, if you do this for players, they will do it for you. I’ve been able to win more auctions by letting others win. You can’t do this with all players, but there are a good number of givers.

Some of the best players are the Seasoned Pros, they have been playing a long time, they have accumulated hundreds of prizes and thousands of free bids, they’ve been around, and they come in two forms, one is a never give up, a start from the beginning strategy that uses a lot of bids. Others have the Jumper gene. The Jumper will come in very late and use few bids to try to win. This activity is not rewarded. If you are a jumper, it’s plain and simple you will be jumped, and that won’t help you win any auctions. If you don’t want to be jumped, don’t jump. That’s fair!

These are a few suggestions to help you win more auctions, good behavior at DealDash is often rewarded, if you play the game too hard, you may not win as many auctions. So, play fair, win more!

Good Luck and Happy Bidding!!!

October 11, 2016

Plan To Win at DealDash

Plan to win at DealDash, if you don’t plan your wins, you might not win. The easiest way to plan a win is to go shopping first. Find an object you want to win and bookmark it or click the “Alert Me” tab. Both of these features help you show up on time for the auction.

Once you are scheduled and you’ve shown up for the event, place your bids in Bid Buddy, and then go do something else. Make sure you put plenty of bids in the Bid Buddy, you could use the Buy It Now value of bids as a guide. That’s the retail value divided by the cost of bids, the sum is they number of bids to place in the Bid Buddy.

If you don’t put that many bids in the auction and you stay in front of the computer, that’s fun, but it’s not planning to win. The best way to win an auction is to stay focused on one auction at a time. At times it’s difficult to do this, you’re bored you want to play, and all that is good, if you don’t plan on winning. You have to keep in mind that because you play, does not mean you will win.

You will win many, many auctions by chance, but this strategy is about the plan and not about bidding randomly. Let’s say there is that specific item you want from DealDash, like a camera. You buy 2000 bids and place only 1000 on the camera. Then you take the other and try to win a bunch of random items, you win one or two items you weren’t planning on winning and it was fun. But now, you don’t have the other 1000 bids and the camera sold to the other player and they used 1500 bids.

To figure the number of bids another player has used, and it’s only and estimate, you would check their start time and average the number of active players then divide the current retail price by the number of active players. This leaves you with the average each player used. It’s not fool proof, but it helps. If they just started, you know they don’t have the bids invested, but if they’ve been in the auction from the beginning, this more accurate. Also, if you and another player started at the same time, you can estimate they have used the same number of bids you have if they 1. never left, 2. don’t stomp and 3. Uses Bid Buddy.

So, I hope I’ve demonstrated the importance of planning to win. First seek out your item and then bid on only that item, leave the computer or your phone aside and find a chore, check it often to see how many players there are, and don’t fall asleep on the couch… ummm, yes, that happens, it’s how others win, we all make mistakes. Don’t be too hard on yourself, get over it, move on and plan to win another auction.

If you want to win that one special item, make it special, and then treat it like an only child, your chances of winning increase because you aren’t spreading yourself too thin or using up your bids on items you don’t want or need. Hey, you never know, it might close for a couple of dollars, you won it and you’re off the another auction for more goodies!

Good Luck and Happy Bidding!!!

October 10, 2016

DealDash Has the Best Gifts

When you are making a list of gifts you’ll need for the holidays, always check DealDash first! They have the best selection of gift items and you can fulfill your list in reverse! Go to DealDash, find some items you would like to win and win it. Then look at your list and assign it to someone! It’s great, I don’t stress at all over what gift to give anyone, the right gift will show up.

One of the best and easy-to-win gift items at DealDash is my all time favorite the White Comforter and Sheet Sets, everyone needs blankets and sheets and they are relatively easy to win at the DealDash site, and they always have a nice selection of sizes and with the sheets, a nice variety of colors too.

Another “kind of” easy to win item are the huge selection of watches, you have to keep your eye open for your favorites, some watches are very popular items and are only out there occasionally, and there are other watches that are on the site all the time. This is where the Entertainment Shopping comes into play. You search the site for your desired item, bid on a few things along the way, and then when you find your item, if it’s not on the market yet, you can bookmark it. DealDash will then send you a notification when the auction is about to start. If it’s scheduled and you bookmark it, it will be posted at the top of your DealDash Main Page.

There are some great housewares that make wonderful gifts, like stand mixers and blenders. I love the small appliance category, DealDash rotates the items in the category, you might see a blue stand mixer today and a red one tomorrow. Small appliances are generally very popular, but I’ve often seen fewer players as other times, so you could win them easier when the odds are better.

There is a handsome selection of Handmade Clocks with familiar shapes men love, like cars, planes and trains. The clocks are popular, but I see them go for pennies all the time. You could get real lucky, it helps to know the pool of players, but there are new players to DealDash everyday, so you will never totally know the field of players. That’s part of the fun though, it keeps you on your toes. Some players are very predictable too, that also helps, I’ve seen a lot in my two plus years, and predictable players are fun to volley with.

These are only a few of the thousands of items they carry at DealDash that would make wonderful gifts. Keep shopping and bid on, DealDash has the gifts you need.

Good Luck and Happy Bidding!!!

October 8, 2016

Gift Card Strategy at DealDash

When thinking strategy for winning prizes, gift cards from DealDash have everything you need. You can win the gift card to give as a gift, or you can win the gift card to go out and buy the exact item you need. DealDash has a great selection of just about everything, but there are certain items you can only get a a particular store.

Gift Card are the best item to plan on “Buy It Now”, also known as “Binning” or “BIN”, you will see other players talking about it in their comment. That’s because it’s a great plan that works well when you’re bidding on an item, especially gift cards.

You can get gift cards for your gasoline. Everyone needs to buy gas, so why not go for the gas card, you could win it for a fraction of the cost and that’s money in the bank! If you don’t win the card by the time you get to the BIN price in your cost of bids, you can purchase it and DealDash will refund all the bids, as a thank you for buying the item, and to go try and win another prize. They love when we win!

The formula to decide how many bids to use is simply the retail value of the item decided by the cost of bids the sum is the number of bids to use. For example if your gift card is $25 and the bids are .15 cents, it would go, 25./.15=167. That would be the number of bids to put on your item using the Bid Buddy. Bid Buddy will bid exactly when it’s your turn and you hope to be the last bid placed!

Players win gift cards for pennies on the dollar all the time. There is a culture of players in the gift card category who only win/bin gift cards or rarely go outside of the category. They know the BIN strategy works and probably have a pocket full of gift cards!

Gas isn’t the only convenience you will find at DealDash, they also carry restaurants, big box store, convenience stores, toy stores, coffee shops and fast food. Visit the DealDash page and search using the gift card category, bookmark your favorites and bid to BIN. When binning stay very true to the cards you really want and need. Tip: During “Free Wins” events, gift cards will go long. come prepared with bids and be prepared to BIN……you need it either way, and buying it makes sense.

Good Luck and Happy Bidding!!!