DealDash Tips

Getting to Know You, Getting to Know All About DealDash!

It takes some time to get to know the DealDash site in detail, but it’s well worth it. Getting to know the competition should be paramount in your strategy.  Every player has a personality, and what I’ve seen, people don’t change.  Once you learn your competitions bidding style, you’ll know how to adjust your bidding to win. 

For example, you have been waiting for an item to come on the market, it’s a rare item and DealDash has these special items all the time, but often they are days apart.  My point is, you feel you have to bid in this auction, and this guy who you know to be a jumper has poked in a bid before $5.  You know he’s going to come back, but you bid anyway, run out of bids and he comes back and wins.  You knew he would come back, so a better idea would be to wait until he does come back and consider how long this person spends in an auction, are they the type who sticks it out? or do they come and go? I keep a DealDash journal, I am serious about winning!

One exception to this strategy is if the field gets down to you and one or two other players, don’t leave, the jumper may not get lucky after all, but certainly if there are 7 or eight people in the auction wait until the jumper has jumped in. 

Just as there are people who jump in late, there are people who stay in from the beginning.  They are ones to watch too, they either, want to win for few bids or really, really want this item and have no plans of going anywhere.  Use the public profile comment to evaluate their intentions, and read between the lines, people often give away more information than they should! 

Another great resource is the Dashboard, don’t underestimate the information you can get here.  It is equally as important as knowing the other players.  You can use this information to your advantage to find out how many bids you’ve used on an item in the past.  The final price of the items and so much more information.  

Check the stats of the site when you want to get started.  Check the winner’s list so you know who won the big bid pack recently.  When using the winners list to examine the field, the lower the final sale price, the shorter the auction. This is important because if it was a long auction the winner may not be present, and that’s great if you want to get away from them.  Also, on the winners list you’ll see who is winning, you can click on a closed auction and see how many wins the player has, this give you an idea too, how long they may stick around.  

Planning is vital to success on DealDash.  You can’t play like a newbie forever, that is wasteful of your bids and your money.  Keep in mind, some people have deep pockets, I don’t think they care at all how much they spend on bids, as long as they win.  However, from what I can see most people are on some kind of a budget and one thing is for sure, you can’t win them all, it is statistically impossible. 

Know the competition so you can plan how to play in this particular auction.  And, get to know and use your Dashboard to your advantage. Stay up to the moment on the Winner’s list.  I have forgotten to do this one simple thing and didn’t notice someone won a 5000 bid pack and I spent hundreds of bids before I figured it out!  

These simple but important tasks make you a better player and a better player is a bigger winner.  You can’t come in stomp your way to a bunch of wins and then expect to maintain that kind of play, it was beginners luck.  It takes thought and planning to be successful.

Good Luck and Happy Bidding!!!

This holiday season I challenge players to  let the other guy win.  I have done it a few times already this season, and it feels good.  As soon as the playing field is down to two people, me and one other guy, I drop out and let them win!  

These random acts of kindness will come back at you because “Karma is a boomerang!”  What I’ve found if I let someone win, they are kind to me in other auctions.  They may be a stomper, but they don’t stomp me.  They may be a jumper and decided to stay out if I was winning.  I’ve done that too.  But if someone jumps me, I’ll jump them back.  I think it’s safe to assume that  everyone has that same sentiment.  “Do unto others…” If you are not sure what a “jumper” is you’ll learn when it happens to you.  It’s when someone poked in one bid and let the auction run for hours, then they jump in later in an effort to take control of the auction and win. 

If you know there is a Power Bidder in the auction and they’ve decided to stay away for one reason or another.  Most likely to join the auction after everyone has used their bids. You do the same, wait until the Power Bidder comes back and ride back into the game.  If he leaves, you leave.  Keep an eye on the winners list if you do this because you want to know how many bid packs this person has won.  Also pay attention to when they joined the auction.  I’ve noticed people jump in around $5, then they leave and never come back. I see this over and over so I don’t even count those people in my strategy.  For that matter, I don’t count stompers either, they never win fairly and when they poke in one bid after each player it essentially cancels itself out and they lose a ton of bids.  It’s just not a good strategy to stomp players at DealDash.

Do not reward the stompers with a win! This guy doesn’t have a clue how much money he’s waisting with his rapid-fire bidding, but they always learn.  These players most likely came from another auction site where that activity is tolerated.  It doesn’t take long to notice they have stopped this activity.  At DealDash they have done everything to try to eliminate that problem by offering the Free Bid Meter which rewards players for their time as high bidder.  Soon you realize if you stomp you’re going to get stomped and if you do, you don’t earn free bids. 

You may think it’s not why we come to DealDash.  You don’t want to buy bids then let someone else win, but I’m not suggesting you let everyone win, maybe just one or two, come-on you can do it! Especially if you are sitting on a couple of wins, this is your chance to shine. It’s the holidays and someone may be out there who’s going to do it for you.  

Good Luck and Happy Bidding!!!

Donna, DealDasher since 2014.

This week the deals at DealDash are amazing! Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, that is New Years Eve through the 3rd of January DealDash is offering a variety of sales sure to please.  On Thursday and Friday there are no new bidders after $2, this means the field in less crowded.  On Saturday and Sunday you will earn 5 times the free bids,  this multiplier will fill your free bids meter 5 times quicker than usual.  

Once in a while DD will offer a sale of 3 or 4 times the free bids but this sale is for 5X!  Bids on Thursday, Friday and Sunday will be .12 cents, so that is a great time to stock up on low priced bids.  There is a lot you can do with the extra few 100 bids or so you get when there is a sale like this.  

When DealDash is having one of these sales with 5 times the free bids, I suggest you go for the big prize! You have been waiting and waiting to get up the nerve to go for a certain item, and now is the time.

Don’t let fear overcome you when you bid.  Keep a few simple strategies in mind. 1. Don’t spread yourself too thin 2. Know the other guy can’t win them all, it will be your turn. 3. Buy bids when they are on sale, you get more for your money and those extras add up and equal more wins!

Perhaps the “greatest of these” is that DealDash will be offering new items after the third of January!!! New Items! They never stop evolving, I’m so excited! The last time they offered new items, I redecorated my whole house.  They also have added a prize valued over $14,000, a few new bikes in the 1200 to 1900 dollar range, so I am looking forward to these new additions, and remember (one of my great tips) a new item usually means less bidders and less bidders means more wins! So get in early on the new items!  

Be among the first to post a photo with the new items, go to the DealDash Facebook page, “like” and “follow” and then go back often to post your photos of you with your new item, maybe you will win the 1000 free bids offered every Monday to one lucky player.  It’s awesome to get free bids simply for taking a photo! 

Go Get’em!!!

Good Luck and Happy Bidding

Donna, DealDasher since 2014.

I have tried many penny auction sites, and I have always come back to DealDash.  Now it is the only site I bid at.  I get everything I need and there are no mysteries. I know what I am bidding on, and I know how to win.  

The other sites just want you to bid, they don’t seem to care if you win or what you win.  What I have found at DealDash is they want you to win! They go out of their way to put all the good auctions on all the time.  

There is always something great and valuable to bid on.  You can find a high value item available in the middle of the night, but at the other sites, they are either closed or have nothing but trinkets available at that hour.  I love to bid in the middle of the night, it’s a whole different world… interesting and really exciting! I don’t do it often, but when I do, it’s amazing fun!

You will be surprised to see who is up at 4 in the morning and then again at 1 in the afternoon.  You will get to know all the bidders around you and that’s a comfortable thing. 

The greatest thing about bidding at DealDash is you NEVER have to leave empty-handed.  You can bid on any item and if you don’t win you can purchase the item at regular retail and get ALL the bids back you used.  So now you have your item and the bids to try for another item.  I have had so much fun shopping at DealDash and I reuse the same bids over and over. 

No other site does that, not one! Some sites give you a token few bids back if you don’t win, but it’s a laughable amount which gains nothing.  They feel good, but you don’t.  Others just do nothing, if you don’t win, you get nothing! In fact, from what I’ve seen that is the status quo….except at DealDash.  

Once upon a time, the owner of DealDash bid on some items at a penny auction site, he won nothing and left empty-handed, he was disillusioned and yet it inspired him to build DealDash.  He vowed to never let his customers leave empty-handed.  I think it’s a phenomenal business model and an outstanding deal for his customers.  

Maybe I don’t spend as much as the “power bidders”, but I hold my own and have won about 250 items.  I can’t say that about any other site I’ve ever tried.  I have won somewhere in the 20’s of prizes at other sites and I’ve been playing penny auction sites for nearly two years now.  It has been some time since I’ve tried any others, but some of them have gone out of business anyway.  

A few other great deals you can find at DealDash are fair priced bids, not grossly inflated prices.  Fair retail prices, again not inflated.  Free Shipping, free bids for every bid you place. you will receive two full weeks to purchase an item you have won, not just a few days or hours.

The Sales at DealDash are always something grand and this week at DealDash you can earn free bids with a multiplier! Every bid you place will yield 2 times, 3 times and even 4 times the free bids.  All you have to do is show up at DealDash and start winning!!

Hop on over to DealDash and try your luck, you can’t fret a safe bet at DealDash!

Good Luck and Happy bidding!!!