DealDash Tips

There comes a time after you have been bidding for awhile that you are in that stage between too inexperienced to know better, and experienced enough to know better.  What you should know about the stages of bidding. 

First, there is the Newbie bidder, they tend to (not all of them) just pounce their way into a bunch of auctions and try to win anything.  You don’t really know what your doing, you have won one auction and you loved it! Newbies often come in from other sites where stomping is encouraged, but at DealDash respectful bidding is encouraged. Not only is it encouraged, it’s rewarded with free bids, simply load up your ‘Bid Buddy’, and watch your ‘Free Bid Meter’ rack up the free bids.  You do get the free bids if you bid manually, but the Bid Buddy ensures you bid only in order of other players who are also using the Bid Buddy, therefore conserving bids. 

Second, this is the stage I am warning you of.  You’ve won 6-10 auction, you love winning, a couple of times it came real easy and then you had to try hard for a couple, you weren’t winning as much.  Now you’ve used up some bids, you didn’t utilize the Buy It Now option (BIN), or you have no bids left.  So use the BIN option, purchase the desk chair you were trying for, you need it anyway and you used 300 bids.  I underestimated the beauty of this feature when I first started and unfortunately, I lost a few great opportunities to recoup my bids.  

Now, you’ve purchased the item, got your bids back and you bought some bids.  You are all loaded up, then you get to the main page and suddenly you freeze.  You don’t want to bid on anything because of the few failures.  Well here is the beauty of that, you wised-up!  You will no longer waste bids just pouncing around, you won’t get involved in too many auctions at once, you won’t stomp because it’s wasteful.  You have matured as a bidder and you are taking your bids seriously.  In the beginning anyone can buy a few hundred bids and lose them foolishly, but it takes practice to be a seasoned player and a frequent winner.  So, don’t be afraid, trust that you will win because you will.  Just look at the Winner’s List and you will see how many players win over and over, and that will be you.

 Finally, you have become a seasoned player, the seasoned player doesn’t win them all either, no one can win them all there is so many factors you have discovered, not the last of these is luck.  Also, use the Bid Buddy from the very first bid.  I make it part of my routine to open an auction to bid, I don’t randomly get involved. I plan.  Planning is half the fun.  

There is time to learn all the tricks of bidding, it’s easy and fun if you just have a little confidence that you have learned from your mistakes and you will win!

Good Luck and Happy Bidding!!!

Donna, DealDasher since 2014.

Stay to your own type of bidder at DealDash.  This is one of the easiest strategies you can do at DealDash.  There are several different types of bidders at DealDash and it’s best if you keep to your “own kind”  Once you get to know the bidders you will know if they are going to come in early and stay or drop in one bid and come back later.  

Knowing the competition is very helpful but not always necessary.  Let’s say, for example, you have been bidding and there seems to be no end in sight, there has been this other guy who has been bidding too, but then suddenly he leaves and you are left with three new people, I call this auction “taking on a new life” the auction has eight bidders, four originals and four new people.  The four original bidders leave and the four new people stay. There is a very good chance that the four you are in with will win if you do this.  Stay with those people.  By this I mean the four originals will leave, the four new people come in you are one of the new people, if you stay you now become one of the original people with fewer bids, but then the second round of bidders come in, they have less bids than you. If you stay with the group you started out with, you will have the same amount of bids invested that they do. 

If you don’t know the competition, it’s simple enough to just watch, 4 start, 4 join, 4 leave, four stay, four come back and the four who stayed are now gone.  Stay with the group you started out with or you will over bid. 

Then there is the really late bidder, let’s say you have 1000 bids invested and suddenly a guy jumps in who has only used 10 bids, there are a few other guys in there and they have used 500 bids, jump out and wait for the jumper to use all his bid, then come back, that puts you in his category with the same amount of bids.  You don’t want the competition to have less bids in an auction than you do .  You do have to try to juggle the amount of bids you have with the amounts others have. 

These are just a few of the strategies you can use to keep you bidding partner close and your enemies apart.  

Good Luck and Happy Bidding!!!

Donna, DealDasher since 2014.

Everyone wants to go to DealDash and be a pro at winning from moment  one.  But the truth is, no one knows what they are doing when they get there.  The learning curve each “Newbie” goes through sends a seasoned player to the moon and back with confusion, and sometimes anger! 

The first and worst mistake a Newbie can make is “Stomping”.  Stomping is coming in day one and pouncing bids down after every player’s bid.  The worst offense to the stomper is to themselves because they are using twice or three times the bids they need to to win.  Every seasoned player uses the Bid Buddy, this is an essential tool at DealDash and is the foundation of bidding.  If you don’t use your Bid Buddy, you are not using a strategy.  It’s that simple.  

What do I mean by this? Well, if you are pouncing in bids, and the other guy is using a Bid Buddy, his bids are measured and the stompers are not.  They just randomly place bids, when using the Bid Buddy there is a measured amount of bids place and in turn of whoever is in the auction also using Bid Buddy.  

The Next mistake I see Newbies doing is in the personal comment.  Don’t give away too much information in your comment.  If you tell everyone you are on Social Security and have 8 children, we know you don’t have very much money and will come in late to an auction and jump the tar out of your bids!  Don’t brag about having a low paying job no matter how important it is!  Likewise don’t tell us what you will do when bidding, for example, don’t say “In it to BIN it” we see you coming and going, you have no intention of Binning, don’t lie about that, you will be figured out right away.  Any comment you can say that would give any insight to your bidding style or the amount of money or bids you have will always haunt you.  

One bid mistake Newbies make is buying a small bid pack and then being involved with an auction that is winding down.  You are running out of bids and now have to go back to the buy bids page or use the buy bids icon at the bottom of the page, either way, if you wait too long to make this transaction, you could lose while you are at the checkout.  Buy enough bids to win up front!  this is also the sister of not enough bids, don’t get caught short handed with bids, it’s a rookie move to be close to the end and run out and lose while you are at the check out. 

Probably the worst offense to Newbies is OVERBIDDING! You are loaded up with bids, you are determined to win the auction.  But you don’t know the other guy, maybe he’s one of those people who overbids for fun, suddenly you have placed twice the amount of bids required to win the auction, maybe you won or will win, but it never feels good to end an auction is the red.  

When you are new and bidding at DealDash, do your home work.  1. don’t Stomp! It’s a waste of bids.  2. Keep your comment simple, don’t give away your strategy.  3. Buy enough bids to win 4. Don’t use more bids than you should have to win, better to BIN and get your bids back.  

If you take a little of this to heart when you plan on bidding I think you should be able to win a few great auctions out of the gate. 

Good Luck and Happy Bidding!!!

Donna, DealDasher since 2014.

When you are bidding at DealDash it’s a lot of fun going after the really popular, high ticket items, but they require time,  patience and a pile of bids. Sometimes it’s just fun to go after the easier to win items.  Here I detail several fun items that could be won easily with less than 200 bids.

 

If you are just getting started at DealDash, or if you’re a seasoned pro, once in a while it’s nice to win a bunch of items quickly.  This is also a good practice if you are bidding on a budget.  Start with a 200 or 300 bid pack, stay focused on just one item at a time, and make sure it’s something you want or need.

 

When you’re bidding on a budget, it doesn’t make sense to 1. get involved with a stomper, or 2. stay involved in the auction.  So you have bowed out and one of the stompers did win, at least you left with your dignity…and your bids for another auction, and you still have the opportunity to earn free bids with your bid meter.

Small Bid Packs will usually end at just a few cents, one exception is a Newbie or sometimes an Old-Timer who has a must win attitude. They haven’t learned or don’t care that this is a few cents item. So if a long battle ensues for a small bid pack, I would back out after 10-20 bids otherwise it just doesn’t make sense to keep bidding.

The dollar amount of the prize matters too.  They higher the value, the more bidders, so stay away from those items, remember above everything else, this is about winning an item with less than 200  bids.  So take action to conserve bids.  This means, jumping out when there is a reckless player, use your Bid Buddy even if you’re only throwing in a few bids, I’ve won a lot of auctions for just pennies with this practice because everyone else is throwing in manually and I have the Bid Buddy racked up, I win!  Watch the auction, you really want to keep an eye on all the players to learn their playing habits.

 

Newbies do one of two things, 1. They stay in too long and overbid, unfortunately, no one wins that way. or, 2. They leave and forget to come back. They probably blew  their  200 bids while they were waiting to bid. If you want to win you have to stay with the auction.