Worried about spending money on bids to win a laptop or other more expensive item only to lose due to someone who has won maybe 10 of these same items? The competition to win the more popular electronics and household items on some penny auction sites can be fierce.
Scared of powerbidders? DealDash has leveled the playing field with their one-item-per user auctions. One-Per-User items are usually higher valued items valued at over $200 – such as dSLR cameras, laptop computers, Dale Tiffany lamps, iPads, Macbooks, tablets, higher value gift cards, smartphones, camera lenses, HDTVs and other items are limited to one win per user.
Not only do these one-per user items limit competition, they keep greedy bidders who have been found to constantly win the same high-dollar items on other penny auction sites from being able to dominate.
These one-per-user items can be found by the “1” indication to the top left of the item on the frontpage or on the top right of the item on the item’s bidding page highlighted in a yellow “One-Per-User” box.
Take a look:
While DealDash has thousands of bidders, it’s good to know that one person can’t dominate and win the same product over and over again.
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What are Win Limits?
“Win Limits:
To ensure equal chances for everyone to win you can win up to 6 items valued less than $200, and 3 items valued more than $200 per week. You can follow the status of your wins by logging in and looking at the winning limit slots right next to the bid amount. The system will not allow you to bid after you have reached your limit. All remaining BidBuddies will be automatically cancelled. Please plan your bidding strategy with this in mind.”
What do you think of DealDash’s one-per-user auctions? Do you think it’s a good idea, or wish you could win more?
Bids on DealDash.com are currently $0.17 a piece with a 50% discount on final end prices this week.
5 Reasons It's Better to Shop Online
I don’t know about you, but this winter is getting to be way too long…. this brings me to my first, and absolute best reason I love to shop online and why shopping online on penny auctions is the best way to shop… among other reasons.
First of all, #1 reason to shop online: Comfort & Convenience
Penny auctions, and online shopping in general, can be done from the comfort of your home – anytime, day or night. Online shopping is so From bed, from in front of a toasty warm fireplace, in the kitchen as you wait for dinner to cook, in front of the TV when watching your favorite show or movie, at work (shh!), in a plane when traveling, really just about anywhere that you have an active Internet connection you can shop. So you won’t have to pull out your winter hats, gloves, boots, and layers of clothing just to go to the store you can stay in bed and turn on your laptop.
#2. Price Comparison and Bargains
Better deals can be had when bidding for items on penny auctions… Plus, there’s more variety and it’s easier to plan and compare prices when shopping online.
Check out just a few of the great deals that were won today on DealDash – $50 GNC gift card for $1.43, Xbox headset for $0.08, MagicBullet Blender $10.35, $299 convection toaster oven for $1.99 among so many others… #3. Crowds
You beat the crowds and save yourself from having to stand in line at your local mega-big box store when you bid on penny auctions and shop online.
#4. Entertainment
Watching and bidding on penny auctions can be very entertaining. Whether you’re rooting for a bidder or watching a powerbidder/jumper beat everyone, scoring an amazing deal on a product, or laughing at bidders who have been going for over 10 hours on a popular item. You have to admit, penny auctions are much more fun than driving to the store, standing in line and walking to your car in the cold of winter!
5. Brag Value
It’s just so much better to talk about the deals you got on a brand new Macbook laptop, digital camera or new kitchenware.. Where else do you have the potential to win something valued at $500 for as low as say $5? It can happen… and you can also spend way more too, if you aren’t careful! For more penny auction and DealDash bidding tips see 10 Ways to Bid Smarter On DealDash and follow this blog for more tips and strategies!
If You're Not Going To Use The Buy It Now Option, Here's How To Be Smart About It
Ok, so let’s face it, you can lose a lot of money bidding in penny auctions if you aren’t careful. DealDash offers the buy-it-now feature allowing you to bid, then purchase the item for the stated retail price and get all of the bids you placed in the auction back. This is a really great, no – really awesome offering. If DealDash didn’t have buy it now you wouldn’t be able to do this and all of the bids you place, unless you’re the winning bidder, would really have been lost. So what do you do if you don’t want to use buy-it-now, but just a few bids here and there?
How do you bid smart if you don’t want to “buy it now?” There’s a few ways you could go about bidding in penny auctions without losing a lot of money if you aren’t prepared to spend the retail to buy the item.
1. Set Limits & Keep Track It’s smart to set a limit of how many bids you will be willing to spend/and in effect, lose, if you aren’t the winner. Make sure you set a number before you start bidding and limit yourself to this number, or else it’s very easy to continue to buy bid pack after bid pack and spend more money than you wanted to when you aren’t prepared to or willing to actually buy the item. Say it’s a $1000 laptop, you really want to win it, but at a discount, you don’t want to buy it.. so set a number: say $100… and be comfortable with that amount and bid accordingly.
2. Bid Smart: Get to know your fellow bidders Though not always easy, I cannot stress enough the importance of “getting to know” your competition. How do you do this? DealDash has a few ways to tell you more about a bidder. 1.) On the item page for each auction as soon as an opponent bids it will also provide you with a few pieces of information: For instance, user “Diannas” is currently bidding in the auction for the Comic Images BackPack Buddies Yoda.
When she bids this info shows up under her username:
Winning limit status: 3 / 6Member since: 10/10/2012 Resident of: Indiana
Note how it shows her winning limit status and how long she’s been a member. By looking at this info you can kind of get a feel for their experience. If they’ve won before perhaps they have a strategy for bidding, maybe they “go all in” and use buy it now, or maybe they just get lucky a few times. Also, seeing as Diannas has been a member for nearly a year-and-a-half perhaps she’s a pretty experienced bidder as opposed to someone who just joined today and maybe just be trying to win with their first bid pack.
3. Bid Carefully
In order to bid carefully you must not bid carelessly. This means do not just throw away all of your bids in a few short minutes. Watch and see how many other bidders have been bidding before you start bidding… Don’t just all of a sudden jump in and waste your bids by “bid throttling” – continuously bidding over another bidder. Other bidders that were just bidding didn’t disappear, and they still have their bids, but will you have yours?
4. Use BidBuddy
Let the computer bid for you – use bid buddy: Using BidBuddy to Win DealDash Auctions and Save Money.
So really it’s easy to be smart about bidding. Just pay attention, set limits and get to know who you are bidding against and you will be on your way to bidding smarter, even if you’re not using buy it now.
Do you have DealDash tips that you’d like to share? Let us know in the comments section! Thanks!
DealDash's No Jumper Auctions Explained!
Lam29, a bidder on DealDash, doesn’t like jumpers… Doesn’t like jumpers so much that whenever one of these ‘pesky’ bidders “jumps” in Lam29 gets right out and stops bidding…
“Bid Jumpers are the worst. If I recognize someone as a jumper I get out of the auction and don’t go back. Bids cost money and bidding is addicting!”
We know that no one likes jumpers, right? Well, unless you’re a jumper? But don’t the jumpers get annoyed by other “jumpers?”
And what’s a jumper anyway?
Jumpers are bidders who wait until an auction has been going for quite some time, with a lot of bids being used up by other bidders who have been in the auction longer than they have, in fact jumpers will wait until hours later to even place their first bid in a penny auction. What’s good is DealDash understands the “jumper” frustration and has been one of the first penny auction sites to introduce “No Jumper Auctions.”
How do No Jumper Auctions Work?
We know that no one likes jumpers, right? Well, unless you’re a jumper? But don’t the jumpers get annoyed by other “jumpers?”
And what’s a jumper anyway?
Jumpers are bidders who wait until an auction has been going for quite some time, with a lot of bids being used up by other bidders who have been in the auction longer than they have, in fact jumpers will wait until hours later to even place their first bid in a penny auction. What’s good is DealDash understands the “jumper” frustration and has been one of the first penny auction sites to introduce “No Jumper Auctions.”
How do No Jumper Auctions Work?
No Jumper™ auctions is a new type of auction that makes winning easier. The big difference between No Jumper™ auctions and normal auctions is that new bidders can’t enter the auction after $5.00. This means you won’t have to compete with users that didn’t bid in the auction from the start, before the price reached $5.00.
All of the penny auctions on DealDash.com are now classified as “No Jumper” auctions. What this means for the bidder is that no new bidders can enter “late in the game” – after the auction end price has hit $5.00. So, in order to bid and participate, you must place a bid soon after an auction has begun. As you will see by looking at the homepage, most all of the active auctions have yellow banners plastered over them stating that “No New Bidders” can enter the auction.
So, back to Lam29’s feedback – eventhough DealDash has a $5.00 threshold limiting all new bidders, their “no jumper” policy doesn’t limit anyone from waiting until bidders have spent bids and entering before $5.00.
On the other hand, DealDash users Mrs. Rutkowski shares,
” The bid jumper is a smart bidder if you ask me Its their money and their bids to use how ever they see fit
Its all part of a strategy in most cases but some times newbies do it not knowing how it all works
New comers should study these auctions and learn before jumping rite in and just clicking away
I like to jump other bidders because a lot of the time it will confuse and aggravate the other bidders giving me the upper hand. (SOMETIMES)
Happy Bidding”
Notice how Mrs. Rutkowski says she likes to bid over, “jump” other bidders because it confuses others and gives her an advantage.
Jumping is a bidding strategy, whether other bidders like it or not.
What’s your opinion of “bid jumpers?”