Bid on Great Items for Kids at DealDash!

Are you looking for Christmas gift ideas for your kids or grandchildren? DealDash offers a lot of really cool products for kids.

Bazoongi Bouncy Castle

Are your kids bouncing off the walls? DealDash has the solution for you with the Bazoongi Bouncy Castle. Great for parties or everyday outdoor fun! Up to 3 kids can jump, bounce and play in the Bouncy Castle. The Bouncy Castle offers easy set up, take down and storage. It’s enclosed on all 4 sides with velcro safety netting you won’t have to worry about the little ones falling off and injuring themselves as could happen on a regular trampoline!
When is this auction: An auction for a Bouncy Castle is ending right now on DealDash – and more auctions for this item are periodically offered. See https://www.dealdash.com/battle.php?auction_id=1942429#sthash.eZ6izRjV.dpuf
The average sales price of the Bouncy Castle on DealDash is $39.95 (3,995 bids). Bids are currently just $0.17 each for the Holiday Season!

VTech Kidizoom – Kid Friendly Digital Camera

Do you have a budding shutterbug? The VTech Kidizoom 1.3 mega pixel digital camera takes 4 AA batteries and is perfect for the beginning jr. photography.

–When: Coming soon to auction on DealDash click here to sign up to be notified of when it will be available!

KidKraft Garage Playset

This deluxe garage wooden playset is loaded with fun features to keep kids entertained for hours! The playset from KidKraft includes 6 cars and trucks, 4 smiling people, a helicoper and helipad, car wash with moving scrubbers, ticket booth and gas station, moving elevator, multi-level ramp that goes from top to ground level for cars and trucks to soar down!
–When: Coming soon to auction on DealDash click here to sign up to be notified of when it will be available!

Discovery Kids Activity Laptop

Do your kids like to play with your laptop, or maybe just tap on the keyboard? Now you can bid on a laptop made just for them! The Discovery Kids activity laptop features more than 60 games and activities.
When: Coming soon to auction on DealDash click here to sign up to be notified of when it will be available!

Discovery Kids World Map

What better way to teach kids geography than this awesome wall map of the world! Featuring colorful regional animals, land markers, bodies of water and 76 labeling pieces. Looks great on the wall of a child’s playroom or bedroom and is education at the same time.
When: Coming soon to auction on DealDash click here to sign up to be notified of when it will be available!

Kidcraft So Chic Dollhouse

The So Chic dollhouse has three levels and 10 rooms filled with 45 pieces of furniture and a lot of fun for the little girl in your life.
When: Coming soon to auction on DealDash click here to sign up to be notified of when it will be available!

The Discovery Kiddie-Ups Carousel Rocking Horse

Is perfect for kids aged 18 months to 3 years. The Carousel Rocking Horse is made of high quality Asian hardwood for solid and secure construction. When: Coming soon to auction on DealDash click here to sign up to be notified of when it will be available!
What would you like to see offered on DealDash for kids? Let us know!
New to DealDash and want to know how it works? Read DealDash Demystified.

November 16, 2013

Toilet Paper, Tide and Toothbrushes: The Secret to Learning How to Win on DealDash

Are you new to bidding on DealDash auctions and want to know how to win?

The secret? Go for the toilet paper.

I know you want to win a shiny new Dyson vacuum cleaner, that way you can get your significant other or kids to actually want to clean the house, right? Or maybe you want a MacBook? or a PC?
But wait a second…
I wouldn’t suggest you purchase bids and go all out trying to win the big auctions, just not quite yet.
You need to start small and work your way up. Think baby steps.
Start out by bidding on items that you actually use in your day-to-day life.
DealDash offers really useful items. We’re not talking more iPods, laptops, Macbooks, chopping gadgets, TVs, or ice cream makers, though these are all pretty useful and you really should bid on those, too.
So what are you going to bid on? Toilet Paper, Tide® and Toothbrushes.

Bid on the things you wouldn’t be able to live without. Like toilet paper.

Yes, DealDash has toilet paper auctions. Really!

You need to wash clothes. Think Tide®. DealDash has laundry detergent auctions.
Clothes always wrinkled? How about a new iron?
If you own a car, you’re going to need to buy gas. Right? DealDash has gas gift cards.
Drink coffee and use a Keurig? Want a cup of tea? There’s even K-Cup auctions for you. Want a Keurig? Check.
Like snacking on cheese and crackers? How about Cheez-It Crackers? You can bid on these, too.
Wood floors need cleaning? There’s even auctions for wood flooring cleaning solution.
If you go out to eat, or go shopping at anywhere from Lowe’s, Bath & Body Works, Target, CVS, Amazon.com, Toys R Us, Red Robin, Chili’s, Kmart/Sears, JCPenney, even AMC gift cards for when you go out to see a movie, Applebee’s, Panera Bread, Boston Market, Staples, Dunkin Donuts, Barnes & Noble, Old Navy, Outback, Cracker Barrel, Walmart, new shoes? Foot Locker, to so many more retailers and restaurants.

It really is a no-brainer to bid on the items that you are already spending money on in your daily online and offline life.
Worried you might not even be able to win that $23 package of toilet paper, well guess what?
For each and every item you bid on at DealDash and don’t win, you can buy it now and get all of the bids you spent in the auction back into your account! Read more about how to bid on DealDash in DealDash Demystified.
This means you can use your bids again on another item you might need, this way you will be honing your bidding skills, making your name known (The Powerbidder’s Strategy to Winning DealDash Auctions), and after too long, maybe win your first big item!
Soon you may be winning items for less than you’d pay for them at the store. So, try it, “buy it now,” save yourself the gas and a trip to the store, and soon the delivery guy or girl will be bringing you your toilet paper. 96 rolls of toilet paper, if you want.
If you are brand new to DealDash, bidding on these useful items is a perfect way to learn how to bid, before you try higher valued items like new TVs, and other expensive electronics.
Bidding on what you need could help you win the things you really want.
Join DealDash and buy bids. But hurry! For a limited-time only, bids are just ~~$0.18 each~~ now $0.16, but you first must purchase a pack of them for $0.60 each if you’re a new user.

November 15, 2013

The Powerbidder's Strategy to Winning DealDash Auctions Part 3 of 3

The importance of watching auctions.
“So if you know the place and time of battle, you can join the fight from a thousand miles away. If you do not know the place and time of battle, then your left flank cannot save your right, your right cannot save your left, your vanguard cannot save your rearguard, and your rearguard cannot save your vanguard, even in a short range of a few to a few dozen miles.”- Sun Tzu, The Art of War
Following on from part I & II .
Now do you see just how important it is to watch auctions and “get to know your competition?”
The bidders that are intently watching will see that the bidder who appears to have placed upwards of $1k in bid m (granted you’ll have to have been watching this for a few hours) and didn’t win likely didn’t want to lose their bids so they used buy it now to get their bids back. Say they spent approximately $1k in bids, 1,666 bids at $0.60 each. Maybe even more if they purchased the bids during a bid promotion.
$0.60/1000= 1,666.66.
Right now, for a limited time, with DealDash’s Christmas promotion bids are $0.18 each. $1,000/$0.18 = 5,555 bids.
Each bid placed by a bidder resets the auction clock by 10 seconds. Can you imagine just how long the $1k auction would go on for? 1 bid = an additional 10 seconds may equal 55,500 seconds (more or less). This is equal to perhaps at least 15 hours of bidding, then add another bidder bidding against this one bidder, and others every now and then. This is if the timer was reset each time towards the very last second of bidding (more on why you shouldn’t always bid last minute in a future tips article). Depending on the number of opponents and frequency of all users bidding, these two bidders could bid for well over 20 hours! Of course not all auctions last this long, but it has happened! This just goes to show that a penny auction on DealDash for a popular, high priced item could take a lot of time before it sees an end.
At $5.00 auctions are closed to new bidders, this is a good idea as it helps to decrease auction times and competition.
Should you be a powerbidder?
This is really up to you to decide, and there are other strategies that you could use that you will be able to learn about here in this blog in future articles.
Just remember it takes time, focus, patience and money (or winning a lot of bid pack auctions) to be a “powerbidder.”
What do you think of the powerbidder strategy? Are you glad that DealDash sets both time and win limits?
We want to hear from you and would be honored to feature your bidding stories here.
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November 14, 2013

The Powerbidder's Strategy to Winning DealDash Auctions Part 2 of 3

Continuing on from where we left off yesterday in Powerbidder’s Strategy – Beat Them or Join Them? Part 1:
Should you worry about powerbidders?
Yes-and-no…
Thanks to the risk-free buy it now option on all DealDash products users can opt to buy an auction at any time while an auction is running.
When is the best time to use buy it now?
This is up to you really, but it may be better to show other bidders that you’re serious about winning and will bid until you have reached an item’s buy it now value before you use buy it now. All bids placed in the auction do not go towards buy it now, but will be refunded back into your account if you buy an item with buy it now, giving you back an arsenal of bids to try and win more items.
Why is powerbidding a strategy?
I know what you’re thinking.
Why would anyone want to spend more money on multiple occasions, especially when the object of DealDash is to have fun and win items for less money? Right?
A powerbidder likely won’t tell you, but if you watch auctions and find yourself bidding against them long enough, you will start to recognize who these bidders are. They “win some” / “lose some,” and that’s just their mentality and their ultimate strategy.
Often I’ve seen where a powerbidder wins high valued items such as iPads and laptops with just a few bids – we’re talking HUGE savings. Perhaps their opponents shy away from bidding against them because they were “cleaned out” by these bidders before and just don’t have the time, patience, or amount of bids available to go head-to-head with them again.
DealDash is a very popular penny auction site and therefore has a very large userbase. Let’s just say there’s a time when the only bidders around, everyone else has met their 9 items/week win limit, and the only bidders in a particular auction are ones who have gone against these powerbidders before and lost. Who ends up winning, sooner rather than later? While not totally possible to predict, the established, hardcore powerbidder is usually likely to prevail.
What if a powerbidder gets in a “bidding war” with another powerbidder?
This is when two bidders who seem to always place a lot of bids are consistently bidding against each other.
Watch out, and get ready for what could be a very long battle to see who has more bid ammo, and patience. Chances are, at this point, one of these powerbidders will choose buy it now and the other may win.
Let’s just say the item they’re bidding for is one with a $1,000 value. Bidders will watch to see if either bidder, or some will try a few bids with hopes of winning, watching to see if either consistent bidder will drop and use buy it now to come in.

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