DealDash Tips

Hey, all of you DealDash.com shoppers you will be glad to know that throughout June DealDash will be offering some pretty significant specials.

From June 7 to 13, DealDash will feature Inventory Liquidation Week. This means we will have one more opportunity to purchase hundreds of clearance products to make room for more brand new items. This will be followed by Splash into Summer sale from June 15 to June 18 ending in Father’s day weekend.

For those of us who want to make the most of earning more time on our clock June is the best time to shop because DealDash will be offering many Highest Bidder Multipliers.

In the middle of the month, on June 14, we also celebrate Flag Day. Do you know why we celebrate Flag Day?

History of Flag Day

Flag Day commemorates the adoption of the Stars and Stripes as the official flag of the United States. Americans celebrate Flag Day by displaying the Red, White and Blue in front of our homes and businesses.

According to Wikipedia and Britannica.com, Flag Day is not actually an official federal holiday, but Pennsylvania celebrates the day as a state holiday.

Bernard Cigrand, a small-town Wisconsin teacher, first came up with the idea for an annual Flag Day to be celebrated across the country and he led his school in the first formal observance on June 14, 1885. But it was not until 1916 President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed June 14 as the official date for Flag Day. In 1949 the U.S. Congress permanently established the date as National Flag Day.

Flag Day is also a good time for patriotic Americans to learn more about how care for and show proper respect for our flag.  Many Americans might not know about the 9 mistakes we should never make with the American Flag:

• Hanging the Flag in bad weather
• Flying the Flag at night
• Displaying the American Flag below another Flag
• Displaying Flags of many nations at different heights
• Flying the Flag at Full Staff before noon on Memorial Day
• Orienting the Flag incorrectly when displayed flat
• Hanging the Flag upside down
• Allowing the Flag to touch the ground
• Adding anything to the Flag

I’m sure you won’t want to miss any of the special features DealDash offers in June.

I’ll see you there!

This sponsored blog post was submitted by: Barbara L. Sellers. Barbara was compensated by DealDash for this blog post. Blog posts are written by real DealDash customers. The opinions and advice here represent our customers’ views and not those of the company.

We all love getting something new. At least I know I do.

Did you see all of the new products going up for auction on DealDash.com lately? If you have not been shopping on DealDash.com for a while you might want to check it out again. I was surprised to see so many new items go up for auction.

A new jeep wrangler, a new fishing boat, a gaming PC and lots of new games are just some examples of new items I never before saw on DealDash.

Why Shop Now

With so many high school and college graduations taking place in May, and so many weddings in June, we are now in what I call the “gift-giving season.” That’s why now is a great time to shop for some lovely gifts at bargain prices.

Some DealDash items that would make awesome graduation gifts are:

• Earrings, necklaces, rings and bracelets. DealDash has a wide range of jewelry that would be sure to please any young lady. I already received a “thank you” card from my great niece who will be attending Notre Dame. She loves the DealDash earrings and necklace I sent her and she said she’s looking forward to wearing them.
• Wonderful smelling perfumes and colognes. DealDash offers a wide variety of them to choose from. I read the reviews on one of the perfumes and one of the former winners wrote, “My favorite scent. Not over powering …” I also read the reviews on another one that looked like cologne and one former winner wrote, “I like that it’s a unisex scent. It smells one way on me and very different on my husband.”
• Watches for men and women. DealDash also has a wide range of watches to choose from.

Some DealDash items that would make wonderful wedding gifts are:

• Gift cards for a major airline or major department stores. We can never go wrong by giving a newlywed couple a gift card so they can use them to purchase whatever they need.
• Comforters, high-quality sheet sets, pillow cases and towel sets. Most newlywed couples are sure to love useful items like these.
• Kitchen appliances, such as a cast iron casserole pots, double burner griddle, a mini fridge, an ice maker, crystal wine glasses, high-quality knife sets, stainless steel pots and pans, china, Espresso and Cappuccino machines.

If we go to the top left of the DealDash home page and open “Browse Categories” we are sure to find even more items that would make awesome gifts. 

Satisfaction Guaranteed

Whenever we shop on DealDash.com we always have a satisfaction guarantee. All of our products are guaranteed to arrive in good condition. If any items are defective or broken, which is extremely rare, DealDash will immediately work with us to replace them. That can give us real peace of mind.

Happy shopping everyone!

This sponsored blog post was submitted by: Barbara L. Sellers. Barbara was compensated by DealDash for this blog post. Blog posts are written by real DealDash customers. The opinions and advice here represent our customers’ views and not those of the company.

“Believing is achieving” and “If at first you don’t succeed, try and try again.”  

Have you ever heard those sayings?  It makes good sense to me. If I had not believed in my ability to learn how to type, I would never have taken a typing (or keyboarding) class and I would never have won the “Best Typist of the Year” award. If I did not believe I could get hired as a professional journalist, I would never have pursued my dream job and would never have earned so many journalism awards. As long as we believe in ourselves there is no end to what we can achieve because “Believing is achieving.”

The same concept holds true when shopping on DealDash.com. First, we must believe we can become a winner. If we do not believe we could win a high-dollar auction, we will never place bids in high-dollar auctions. I looked at the screen names of all of the past winners of brand new cars. I’m familiar with most of the screen names of regular shoppers on DealDash and I pay attention to their various bidding styles.  Therefore, I know that some of the shoppers who won a new vehicle are not power bidders. Yet, they won, anyway. How did they do it? I would say the answer to that question is “consistency.” In other words, “If at first (they) don’t succeed (they continue to) try and try again.”

Where to Begin

Winning an auction always begins with believing we can win and then coming up with a plan and a strategy to win what we want. I seldom win an auction the first time I try but I learned more than anything else the key to winning is consistency. That does not mean that we never stop. Sometimes wise shoppers do stop when it makes sense to do so. At the same time, it’s important to know there is a difference between stopping and never giving up. Winners might stop one day but come back the next day. Consistency usually pays off in the long run.

If we look at past winners we can learn a lot. We can see that some winners used a small number of bids and won the auction at a bargain price, whereas some other winners use a large number of bids and pay three times the BIN to “win” the same auction. Nearly all of the auctions will sell at a bargain price sooner or later. Some auctions sell at a bargain price more often than others, but the key is to be there on those rare occasions when the auction product sells extremely low. If we consistently place a limited number of bids each and every time the product we want goes up for auction we will eventually be there at the right time to win it.

Bottom Line

Don’t ever let yourself become your own worst enemy by quitting before you even begin. Remember if Johnny or Susie can win an awesome bargain on DealDash so can you.

This sponsored blog post was submitted by: Barbara L. Sellers. Barbara was compensated by DealDash for this blog post. Blog posts are written by real DealDash customers. The opinions and advice here represent our customers’ views and not those of the company.

What is a Newbie? A “Newbie” is a term we sometimes use when referring to new customers shopping on DealDash.com.

We were all “Newbies” at one time, and we did not all read all the rules, guidelines and tips on how to play smart before we first started shopping. Let’s face it. When we were Newbies most of us did not really know what we were doing but we did know how to click the “bid now” button that we saw on the home page.

Many of us did not even know how to find and use the automated bidder, BidBuddy. Therefore, we did not even know how many other players were competing in the same auction. It is easy to identify a Newbie. Here are some telltale signs:

Wasted Bids

The most obvious sign that somebody is a brand new DealDash shopper is when we see the same screen name wasting bids. Since many Newbies are not using BidBuddy they cannot see how many other players are competing in the same auction. By placing another bid every time another shopper bids, they wrongly believe that will improve their chances of winning when, in fact, just the opposite is true. By wasting bids, the Newbies are actually decreasing their chances of winning.

It used to irritate me whenever a Newbie cut the clock and cheated me out of my full 9 seconds toward earning my free bids. However, the good news is that DealDash has corrected that issue. Now, whenever a Newbie cuts the clock, we still get the full 9-seconds credited for each bid we use. I was so happy when DealDash did that.

When a Newbie gets curious enough to open up the auction they want to win and they see the window open up where BidBuddy is hiding, they are on their way to becoming a better player. Once they see how many other shoppers are competing in the same auction and can also see how BidBuddy places the bids for us, taking turns, one at a time, they usually soon realize they had been needlessly wasting their bids. Some Newbies catch on and learn more quickly than others, but eventually most Newbies get on board with the rest of us, so we need to learn how to be as patient with them as others were to us.

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