DealDash Tips

July 29, 2016

What takes 1000 Bids or More at DealDash?

There is a good handful of items that take at least 1000 bids to win at DealDash, don’t fool yourself into believing you will come in and win a $5000 item with 200 bids. There are many, many players who have been at it for years still trying to win that one popular and famous item like the Apple MacPro. Yes, you can win one at DealDash for $8, but the plan should not be to come in and get it with a few hundred bids.

The Apple MacBookPro is not the only item that is “hard to win”, I put it in quotes because you just might win it with a few bids, it does happen, but more than anything it doesn’t happen. You can’t count on someone else having bad luck.

There are more items that require more than 1000 bids on average. Technology in general is difficult to win. You should plan on a few things, 1. Plan on bidding only in this one auction and it might take days to win. 2. Plan on Binning, if you do win it’s a thrill and if you don’t win and BIN, you get your bids back on an item you really needed. I have Binned technology more than once, but I’ve also won it….more than once.

The high end drone is usually not won with less than 1000 bids, you can try and try, but what I’ve found to be the most successful with this item its to “lock and load” as I call it. Set up 100’s of bids and either be willing to BIN (Buy It Now for bids back) or to walk away from the bids you tried to use to win it. It’s ok to let the bids go. I have learned that walking away gives me more pride than buying another 1000 bids. At times it really is better to just walk away!

A cell phone, it doesn’t matter which one, any good cell phone is hard to win.

There are a few garden items that are really hard to win with less than 1000 bids and one is the Pop-up Green House valued at about $700. There are a few other green houses valued in the “hundreds” and they are defiantly easier to win. This is also a category where knowing the competition is a real bonus for not overbidding.

$500 gift cards to anywhere especially Walmart. All gift cards at this level are hard to win. Many players who play the cards are in it because they are going to spend the money at the store anyway, so they might as well rack up the “BIN” amount of bids and win it, this leads to many other players overbidding. If you want to BIN on a $500 gift card, you would calculate the amount of the item divided by the cost of bids and it gives you the maximum number of bid to place on this item, The chances of you getting it for much less is great because most people are simply trying to win the $500 for a deal. But if you take $500/.15=3333 bids is what you would put in your Bid Buddy and leave there until you won. Whatever the amount is better than full price and even full price isn’t a bad thing, you are going to shop there anyway.

Amazing holiday items like a light up Christmas Tree. I have used 100’s of bids on many auctions trying to win this one, I will win it if I put all 1000 bids on it. I’ll try again this Autumn. It just has to be a priority and the only auction I bid in. That is key!

This is just the tip of the Ice Burg! There are so many cool items at DealDash and the Cream of the Crop is waiting for us, but we need to be prepared. If you are going for the big item, the popular item, have the bids to do it. If you decide to go for it with just 200 bids, expect to lose them. You might win, but you probably won’t.

It’s my plan today to enlighten you to some prizes that take over 1000 bids to win. This is a non comprehensive list and I will continue this conversation in another blog.

Good Luck and Happy Bidding!!!

July 28, 2016

DealDash: You Can’t Win Them All

So you’ve seen the DealDash commercials on TV, you’ve heard your friends brag about their wins all you ever hear about is the winning, and maybe you’ve even won a few, but the truth is you can’t win them all.

In fact, it’s not about winning a higher percentage of items, it’s about winning them with less bids. If you are a player who is used to winning 40% or more of the time, chances are you are spending too much to play and with some thought and planning, you could save a lot of money.

First, to figure out how often you win do a few things. At the beginning of the day, before you start bidding check you “Account Details” found in your Dashboard. See how many wins you have to date. Then at the end of the day check that number again. you will see the number of WINS you had today.

Now, go the Bidding History Tab and count all the auctions you bid in today. Take the number of wins and divide by the number of auctions that have closed, if an auction is “ongoing” you haven’t won or lost it yet, so I don’t include them. multiply your result by 100 and you will see how often you won.(example below) Now, if you do this for a whole week you will get a more accurate number and if you can do it for a month you will have a great idea of how often you win, at the end of the week or month average all your averages. I win about 15% of the time. I enter a lot of auctions then leave and don’t go back, so that brings down my numbers. And, entering an auction to return later isn’t a great strategy to win, but it may help you win a different auction ultimately, but that’s a different article! See “Pop in One Bid” published July 26, 2016.

I’ll calculate a recent day of mine. I have 4 wins and entered 26 auctions, but two are still running, I discount them. I’m left with 24 auctions. 4/24=0.166 X 100 (%) = 16.6 % wins. That’s pretty good because I didn’t use a lot of bids to win it. You can keep track of your bids by counting the bids used in the “Bidding History”.

This is another way for you to see a good day may be only 4 wins away, you don’t have to kill it every day. Players who win at all costs are losing their life savings to do so. You can’t win them all, it’s that simple.

Even if you do win at all costs, you are still going to lose once in a while. There will be a mistake, a forgotten moment, a distraction, something to cause you to lose and if you just over bid to lose, it’s even more painful than just overbidding. The whole idea behind DealDash is to get a great Deal on fantastic everyday items, if you spend $300 to win a toaster, it doesn’t make any sense. There is always another auction, there is always another product coming on the market any second.

Good Luck and Happy Bidding!!!

July 27, 2016

The Art of Buy It Now at DealDash

There really is an art to the Buy In Now process, when I first started at DealDash I didn’t put any weight on the process and therefore lost a lot of opportunity. I would bid and bid on the same item over and over until I won it. All those bids…gone and I could have owned it.

First, let’s talk about what “Buy It Now” is. Deal Dash has a policy in place so no player has to go away empty-handed, and it’s the Buy It Now option. It’s also know as “binning” and BIN, but they all mean the same thing, you can get your bids back if you don’t win.

If you are bidding on an item at DealDash and you just can’t win it, you can purchase the item and DealDash will give you all the bids you used to win it back. There is a tab in the auction which you can select and it will take you to the checkout, when your transaction is complete you own the item and you got all your bids back to go for another item. You will no longer be able to win in this auction.

You have a full week after someone else wins the auction you’ve bid in to purchase it for your bids back, you can find the “Buy Now” tab on the first page of your Dashboard. Simply find the item you wish to purchase in the list an click on the “Buy Now” tab and at the time your purchase is complete your bids are deposited into your account.

So, you don’t have to keep trying and trying to win an item you really need, this can be as simple as shopping! Look through the DealDash merchandise. Plan on binning because you need the item. When you plan on binning there is a simple formula to determine when to stop bidding. It is likely you will win the item before the BIN, if fact that is the plan, right? But if you don’t you have the BIN to fall back on. To determine the BIN amount of bids take the value of the item and divide it by the cost of bids, then you will have the number of bids to BIN. You don’t want to exceed that number because you would be paying more than retail price. So, if your item is valued at $50 and bids are .15 cents you would calculate 50/.15=333. 333 is the magic number, don’t exceed this, back out and buy. Get your bids back and move on. You now have your item and 333 bids to go!

This is a great way to purchase gifts, you can select a gift, possibly win it right away and get a great deal, or plan on binning. You can shop on a budget and find great deals at DealDash, always keep in mind you can purchase it and get your bids back. Stay focused on items you really want, this way purchasing it makes sense.

Good Luck and Happy Bidding!

July 26, 2016

DealDash: Pop in One Bid

There are a lot of different playing strategies at DealDash, but the most popular one is to simply place one bid before $5. Many, many players do this and never come back. I never used to do it, but now I’ve realized there is some good that comes from this activity.

The players who do come back after $5 usually come in late and out bid all the front end players, they’re called “Jumpers” and there is really little chance to beat them with bids if you’ve already use all 500 of your bids and they just entered, but you can out-wit, them because you placed a bid too in a different auction they are in. You don’t have to enter an auction to win, you can just be there to shake things up. I have been in auctions and had no intention of “staying in for the long haul” but I did want to see if I can scare someone out of an auction, and it works!

This is something that the jumper doesn’t consider. They come in late and stay late, they expect everyone to leave and let them win. Well, if you poked in one bid, you can be that person. This is what is known as “if you can’t beat them, join them”.

I never do this to players who have been in an auction all along, but if someone jumps me, I will seek them out in another auction and play the other auctions they are in to scare them away. It works, often they will jump out of the auction they jumped into because I just jumped them in a different auction. This is not an activity for the faint of heart, and by that I mean, if you don’t have a lot of bids to burn, don’t stay in long, just long enough to see if there is any movement. Hey, maybe you’ll scare someone else away and win that way. That wasn’t the plan, but I’ve seen it happen!

So what I’m suggesting is, if you are constantly being jumped, be a faint-of-heart jumper! The reason I say faint-of-heart I truly believe it’s mean to jump people all the time, I don’t do it to anyone who doesn’t do it to me. So if you are a jumper, you might win more if you weren’t.

Any way you get it done, Good Luck and Happy Bidding!!!