With holiday festivities in full-force and Christmas just two days away it’s important to take steps to protect your home, car and belongings this season. Here are a few pr-ecautions you can take this Christmas season, especially if you are going out of town on vacation!
1. Do not leave anything valuable in your car.
2. Better yet, keep your car clean so that when someone looks in it they see nothing… Put all jackets, blankets, etc. in the trunk, a thief could think something is hidden under them and break in any way.
3. Leave lights on + a radio at your home before you leave town.
4. Put a hold on your mail to pick it up after you return.
5. Don’t leave newspapers out on doorstep – call to hold this too.
6. Bring in any trash containers
7. Put curtains up on your windows
8. Hide valuables
9. Get a safe.
10. Set up a security system
11. Set up a wireless USB camera to monitor your home while away.
12. Get a new NEST thermostat to control your heat when away.
13. Bid on DealDash + save!
“Unfortunately our criminals may not have the money to go get Christmas presents for their families so they find illegal ways of doing that,” said Bryan Police Department Public Information Officer Kelley McKethan.
DealDash offers a few items that can help you protect your belongings from theft!
Sentry Safes – File Safe or this 0.4 cubic ft security safe!

The last security safe sold with a final end price of $0.49! It retails for $69!

Don’t let your home get burglarized this holiday season! Take these tips and put them to good use! Bid on security items at DealDash!
Stay safe, follow these safety tips!

1. Bid using the bid buddy!
If you think you don’t have time to spend bidding on an auction, but want to try to win it all you have to do is use DealDash’s “bid buddy.” Bid buddy will let you place bids on items when you aren’t even at your computer if you wish. You can specify the amount of bids that you want the bid buddy to place for you as well as the maximum bid price you would like to bid until, set it then forget it! It’s super easy to use and only takes a minute.
Here’s where you can find bid buddy on each of DealDash’s auctions:
From the homepage click on an item you want to bid on –> look under the bidding timer, under the bid now button- where it says BidBuddy – Your Automatic Bidding Tool – specify the number of bids you would like to place in the “Add bids here” box. Then click “book a bid buddy.” it will use your bids to bid for you within the last seconds of an auction. It will not let you place more bids than you have in your account and it will stop once it has used all of the bids specified. You can stop and reload your bid buddy at any time.

2. Bid before the “No Jumper” lock has been activated
Once an item reaches $5.00 – 500 bids have been placed the auction is locked out to new bidders who didn’t place one of those 500 bids. The good thing about this it lessens competition.
3. Bid to buy, or buy it now!
When you decide to bid on an auction either decide to go “all in” and bid until you win (which could take quite some time, so pace yourself)! Or you could just bid until you spend retail and if you don’t win use buy it now and get all of those bids back. Then you will have a bank of bids to use in a future auction!For instance, this Color Switch Plus 7.5 foot color switch spruce Christmas tree is valued at $326 – that’s the buy it now price. You can bid and hope to win it for less, or just buy it if you really want to be able to decorate this tree (next Christmas!).
 
What did you bid on at DealDash this year for Christmas? Do you bid with bid buddy or use buy it now?
 

Are you frugal, or do you spend too much?
Here are a few ways that  DealDash can help you maximize your profits by getting more for your money. You may have to spend a little bit of time, but it could be worth if  you have some time to spare.
1. Deals on Dining
Love to get drinks with your friends on a Saturday night? How about a quiet date night, or a fun dinner with your family? Here are ways that DealDash can help you save money if you already go out to eat.
Gift card auctions! DealDash offers gift card auctions for top restaurants like T.G.I. Friday’s. 1 $50 gift card recently sold for $0.54! Buca di Beppo, a $25 card sold for $0.10, or save money on a family night out to Dave & Buster’s! This $25 card sold for $0.05 recently! Whoa right?! Great deals! So you’re wondering what happens if you don’t win the cards for as cheap as others had, what do you do to save money? All you have to do is bid and try to win. If you don’t win just use “buy it now” to get the item at cost, after all if you were going to go out to eat at one of your favorite restaurants you would’ve spent money there anyway, right?! So when you use buy it now on DealDash you get all of your bids back!





Gas prices are so low right now! In some states gas was as low as $1.99 tonight! But how can you save more? Gas gift cards! Bid on gas gift cards on DealDash and save money at the pump when you win. And like the restaurant gift cards mentioned above, if you don’t win just buy it now after the auction ends and get all of your bids back to try again! If you’re buying gas any way, why not?
What’s DealDash and how does it work? Read more and check back tomorrow for more DealDash tips!

DealDash – what’s DealDash.com?
DealDash is one of the longest running penny auction, pay-to-bid entertainment shopping auction sites online, but what’s that?!
What’s  a penny auction and how does it work?
A penny auction site is an site with “auctions,” but not auctions like your typical eBay auction. They’re auctions in that there’s a set opening time, item, and environment with competition, but there’s a twist!
Penny auctions don’t end as soon as the time hits 0 and the highest bidders has made his bid. Penny auctions end when no one else places a bid against a bidder and the timer hits 0. So bidding on a penny auction could go something like this:
1. There’s an auction item that you really want.
2. You need to place bids to win it.
3. But, you need to purchase bids!
Yes- bids are not free on DealDash or any penny auction – penny auctions really are a fun twist on traditional auctions. You must first sign-up to bid, then buy bids. You can buy bids in a number of amounts from a smaller bid pack to a larger one, it’s totally up to you. Bids cost $.60 each on DealDash unless you buy them at a discount (right now they’re on sale for $0.14).
4. So you now have bids –  You can start bidding on the item you want.
Let’s say you’re going to place a bid now, right after fairlighti and the bid price is currently at $0.45 for a 15.6 inch Dell Inspiron 15″ laptop. The price is at $0.45  – the beginning auction price is 0 – once a bidder places a bid it increased by $0.01 and 1 cent with each subsequent bid to bring it to the price it’s at now, so 45 bids have been placed on this $477 Dell laptop.  So as you can see the time is at 10 seconds, fairlighti just placed the bid – once you place a bid  – either at 6 seconds left or 9 seconds, the timer is reset again to 10 seconds, the clock ticks down and other bidders could place a bid. The only way you can win is if everyone else stops bidding.
So what if you were lucky!? That would be awesome! If you could win a new laptop for $0.46! It’s possible… While the winning price is $0.46 you would pay for the bids you already bought (the value of 1 bid = $0.60) + the end price =$1.06. Shipping is free! DealDash ships all of their items free of charge!
Have you bid on DealDash? Make sense now, or have any questions? Let us know!