DealDash Tips

September 1, 2016

Bidding on a Budget at DealDash

You might have noticed that DealDash has a new bid pack size for $7, this is the perfect size if you need to add a quick 50 bids to an item you have in auction. You can also stick to a strict budget with this size. I often wished I could just get a quick-50 bids, and now I can.

To have a successful bidding experience, it’s always convenient to have a large number of bids in your account at one time, but when you are bidding on a budget, stick to items that you can also afford to buy. If you buy an item you’ve been bidding on DealDash will refund you the bids you used. That’s called “Binning” or “BIN” both short for Buy It Now. You never have to leave empty-handed at DealDash, so bid within your means and you won’t have to.

That means you really don’t want to bid on items you are just looking to exchange for bids, if you lose that auction, you will end your day with no items. Look over the items for the next 24 hours, choose items you could use for a gift, if you have a $150 budget on that one person, you could essentially win an item in that price range with the 50 bids, so you got your item and you only spent $7 for a $150 gift, but if you didn’t win, you purchase the item and you get the 50 bids back. Win-Win

But, if you can purchase an item at $500 buy the 2000 or 3000 bid pack and you will have plenty of bids to win so many single items, stay focused on that one item, that is so important when bidding on a budget. If you start bidding in too many other auctions you will be out of bids before you know it, and when you purchase an item, you won’t get as many bids back.

Also, you are earning free bids the whole time you are bidding for your Time As High Bidder. DealDash rewards every player with free bids everyday, this is something we earn by being the “highest bidder”. Every time you place a bid there is about 9 seconds before Bid Buddy places the next players bid, this time is yours and it earns you time toward your next level. Once there, you get the bids. These free bids run into the thousands, just keep bidding, you’ll keep earning.

Another way to waste bids is by not using Bid Buddy. If you stomp in your bids manually, you will get stomped back thereby canceling any free bids you could be earning with your Free Bid Meter. Likewise, if someone is in the auction stomping on your bids, it doesn’t make sense to stay involved. You need those free bids, and there is always another item right around the corner.

Try to conserve bids. Bid on items you can afford to buy. Protect your free bids, they are as good as money in the bank, and try not to overbid, no one gets a bargain that way. Tip: There is an exception to that rule; If you reach the next level and just got a whole bunch of free bids, go ahead and use those to bid, you never know, and if the item is during a free sale or a 50% off sale, even better!

Good Luck and Happy Bidding!!!

August 31, 2016

Your DealDash Dashboard – A Helpful Tool

Don’t underestimate the power of your Dashboard. It’s there and holds certain keys to the questions you have. It’s much more fun to have all your stats in one place than to have nothing at all. Your Dashboard has the numbers to help you win.

For example, how many bids did you use on a certain item? You can find that information in your “Bidding History”. Then you can use this information to help you decide what to do in your next auction. Perhaps you don’t want to use as many bids, or you think you could have used more bids. You can also see who you did battle with in the list of Avatars in the auction, find out what the final price was, what sale was available at the time, it’s all good information to help you make an educated guess on your next auction.

Your “Won Auction” is a particularly interesting list. You can see what you’ve won, and if it’s paid for or shipped, and whether you exchanged it for bids. Exchanging for bids is an option DealDash offers if you win an item, and based on its popularity, you will get an exchange, they keep the item and give you X amount of bids. On average it’s about half, but it can be more or less if the items is very popular, it could be 100% bids, so if the item is $1920 dollars you will receive 1920 bids. If that same item is not as popular, you may get 960 bids. That’s not the only factor, others are availability and frequency of offer.

Your “Public Profile” is a useful tool, use it to define your game, encourage others, or perhaps send someone way off target from your bidding style. There are so many clever profile comments, read a bunch and the right one for you will come. I like to change my comment often, others have had the same comment as long as I’ve been bidding. Some use only a dot ( . ) or ( / ). There are quotes by famous people and snarky comments made up by the players. Make it fun, you will read it over and over as the auction goes on.

Your “Buy It Now” Tab will let you know if you’ve purchased an item and how many bids you received for your purchase. You can use this information to see previous thresholds for buying the item. Hopefully, you didn’t over BIN!

Once you’ve won an auction you can find it directly on the top of your open Dashboard, there you can see all the prizes you have open for purchase, this is also where you can do the exchange for bids if you choose. Just click on the “Pay Now” tab and both options are there to, 1. pay for it or 2. exchange it.

Watch your own stats on your Dashboard and learn from your wins and losses. This is a convenient tool and DealDash wants you to win, so check your Dashboard often, once in awhile you might open it and see you’ve won a prize and didn’t even know it!

Good Luck and Happy Bidding!!!

August 29, 2016

Setting Up Your DealDash Account

You’ve come to the right place if you want to try Penny Auctions, DealDash is by far the best site out there, they really set the bar. They are among the first and now the longest in business Penny Auction sites.

The first thing you want to do to set up your account is to create a public profile. Your profile is yours forever, and you’ll be remembered by other players for how you play and by the Avatar you choose. You need four things to get started. First, buy your initial Bid Pack you, will purchase 60 bids for $36. This is plenty of bids to see if you like bidding and you will most likely get a full return on this investment because DealDash wants you to win, so there are special auctions just for new players. While you do that you will be prompted to choose your username. Be creative, it’s more fun. You and other players will repeat that name over and over in their minds, pick one you’re happy with.

Third, and you don’t have to do this right away, create a catchy profile comment. DealDash allows each player a paragraph of comments which sits under your Avatar, your comment needs approval from DealDash and that takes a few hours to a day. That’s the fourth thing you need to do, choose a stock avatar provided by DealDash or upload a photo of your choice. If you choose to upload a photo it will need to be approved by DealDash and that takes about a day.

At first, you’re considered a “Newbie”, the newbie is usually a diamond in the rough, you just need a little polishing. A newbie my not be as considerate as a long-time player because they stomp out bids instead of using Bid Buddy, the automatic bidding feature DealDash has is place. My point being, use your Bid Buddy right out of the gate, you will win more!

So, you have your bids, username, comment and avatar. You are ready to bid! Remember to check out more blog post for tips on how to play the game and win. Read the Rules and Tip & Tactics, they are very helpful for the “never-ever”

Good Luck and Happy Bidding!!!

August 28, 2016

Eight Wins Under $2 in One Day at DealDash

The title of this article speaks truth for me now more than ever at DealDash, the new No Limits on Wins feature is an outstanding bonus to the player, and I have had so much fun winning as much as I want any day I want. I treated this new event like I was a “Newbie”, playing the prize field under $200, these are generally shorter and close lower than the big prizes. I was giving myself a chance to re-learn the field before diving into the big prizes again.

I’m glad I did because I was able to figure out that there are less people in the small prizes now because the players are spread out over the field. Since you’ve been able to win as many prizes as you like any day, players who used to only stick to a certain price range have branched out. The only prizes that seem to still be as busy are the very popular items that everyone wants, you have to get involved with the auction and see how many people join. You can tell how many people are in the auction by looking at the group of Avatars in the auction. When the auction reaches $5 no one else will be able to join.

Getting to know the competition at DealDash is also helpful but less necessary than ever, you can see who is winning on the Winner’s List, once someone wins an item, they may not win it again for a week, so you can go bid after items on the list. Open them, see how many people were in the auction and who the winner was. This is good information to know. Now go after that same prize.

Let’s get to these prizes I won, I can tell you that I also won several other items between $3-$5 they aren’t on the list but we can add them to my number of wins in one day!

$150 -18K Gold Plated Ring, size 7- won for .86 cent with 55 bids

$245-Heavy Duty Pack Pack-won for .30 cents with 10 bids

$265- Candle Holder-won for .93 cents with 27 bids

$370-Pet Bed- won for $1.34 with 39 bids

$150- 18K Gold Plated Ring, size 8- won for .38 cents and 10 bids

$268- Handmade Purse-won for .53 cents and 22 bids

$339- Handmade Ottoman won for .14 and 4 bids

$229-Power Bank- won for $1.19 with 34 bids

I won $2016 worth of prizes and more in one day at DealDash, that is more than fair! My total spending was $5.67 and $28 for bids. A total savings of $1982.00!

I have so much fun bidding every day, I don’t always win this much in one day, but I do win this much often.

Good Luck and Happy Bidding!!!