Category: Strategies and Tips

Have you done any bid exchanges on DealDash.com?

Here’s how bid exchanges work. When we win an auction on DealDash and go to pay for the auction, we will usually receive an option of either paying for the sale price of the auction product or exchanging it for bids free of charge instead. The number of bids we could receive in exchange for the product we won is based on the value of the BIN.

Why Do a Bid Exchange

You might wonder why anyone would want to do a bid exchange. Why would bidders place bids on an auction product in the first place for something they did not really want? That’s a good question. There are actually many reasons why the bid exchange option could work to our advantage. Let’s take a look at some of those reasons:

• Perhaps the auction closed at a much higher sale price than what we initially wanted to pay for the product. We don’t have to pay the sale price if we exchange the product for bids. Of course, we could still end up losing more than we gain if we overbid the value of the product.
• Another reason we might opt to do a bid exchange is because we might notice that we won a product that was the wrong size. For example, we might have needed a large jacket and noticed it was only a size medium. In that case we might be better off doing a bid exchange so we could apply the bids to try to win the right sized jacket in another auction.
• A third reason we might want to do a bid exchange is because we are focused on increasing the number of bids we have in our account. In that case, we might bid in an auction that looks like it is easy to win even if we know the product is the wrong size and/or we know the product is not really something we want. For example, we might see a ring that is only a size 6 and maybe the competition is extra low because not many customers wear a ring that small or we might see an auction that has less than 10 people bidding and we only decide to place bids in that auction because it looks like an easy win.

Our competitors might not have recently won a big bid pack, but if any of our competitors have recently won several other auctions we never know if they did a bid exchange, so we should always keep that in mind. By using the bid exchange option we might be able to save enough bids to compete and win another auction that might be more difficult to win.

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.

Out with the old and in with the new. When shopping on DealDash.com what does this mean?

Lately, I’ve been seeing some information that DealDash.com about eliminating some of its old products to make room for more new products.

Of course, I have no way of knowing which products DealDash will no longer have up for auction. Therefore, what that means to me is that now is the time to shop for all of the products I might want to have that might no longer be available in the near future.

I’m not going to worry about bid packs ever disappearing because I’m pretty sure bid packs will always be available for auction.

I also believe DealDash will probably continue to offer new vehicles for auction because they are definitely a very popular item. In fact, DealDash is the only auction site I know of that auctions off new vehicles, which can be a really awesome deal for the winners, especially those who win a Tesla (which is definitely a dream car). On May 4 one winner used only 289 bids and won a new car for a sale price of only $2,452.86. So I hope that will continue for a while.

Now or Never

Some auction items, however, might not continue to be available much longer, and that means we might have to shop for them now or never.

There are many different ways that DealDash might quickly sell out its inventory of some items they regularly carry. For example, as of this writing, DealDash put 30 products from its electronics and computers category up for auction all at the same time. DealDash also periodically schedules sales that start and end at specific hours.

Super Blast Sales

Today DealDash started a “Super Blast” sale that started this afternoon and (if my math is right) it will run until midnight.

Common sense tells me that the products we see in the “Super Blast” sales might be the ones that DealDash could soon eliminate from its inventory. Therefore, if we want any of these items they are the ones we should be shopping for while the supply lasts.

New Items

If we want to keep our eyes open for the new products DealDash has now added to its shopping site, all we have to do is go to “Browse Categories” in the upper left of the home page and click on “New Items.”

We can expect to see some truly awesome new products, so check it out!

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.

My mother had a saying for everything. Some of her favorite ones were: “When the going gets tough, the tough get going,” “Those who row the boat don’t have time to rock it” and “The Early Bird Gets the worm.”

I didn’t pay much attention to these sayings when I was young because they all sounded like she was trying to get me to work harder and longer hours. However, some of those pieces of advice came back to me at just the right times when I was older and I now know that some of them can even be applied to DealDash.com shoppers too.

When it comes to shopping on DealDash, “The Early Bird Gets the Worm,” could be translated into “Early Shoppers Win the Best Bargains” or “Frequent Shoppers Win the Most Bargains.”

Bargains Won in 24-Hours

In spite of its huge following, DealDash shoppers still win outstanding bargains every day.

I just checked the “Winner’s List” and I saw that within the last 24-hours, three DealDash customers won a 275 bid pack using only 1 bid and it sold for only 1 cent, 2 cents and 3 cents. In fact, I wrote before that winning deals like this often run in patterns. To prove it, I myself placed bids on a 275 bid pack to see what would happen, and I won, too. I used 26 bids and it sold for 74 cents, but that was still a pretty good deal.

Another shopper won the 425 bid pack using only one bid and it sold for 7 cents. Yet, another shopper won the 600 bid pack using 1 bid and it sold at 53 cents, and these examples were not even the best bargain within the last 24-hour period. Nope. One shopper won the 800 bid pack 12 hours ago using only 1 bid for a selling cost of 4 cents, but the best bargain of all was won only 4 hours ago (as of this writing) by a DealDash customer who used 10 bids to win a 2,500 bid pack that sold for $1.06. Wow!

Not only were several bid packs selling at bargain prices, but one loyal customer used 20 bids to win a stainless steel watch with a BIN (Buy It Now price) of $1,700.00. It sold for $3.01 just 10 hours ago. Also, 6 hours ago (as of this writing) a yellow gold women’s watch with a BIN of $375.00 sold for 66 cents and the winner used 11 bids.

Multiple Features

Lately, I’ve noticed that DealDash often runs more than one feature at the same time.

For example, DealDash is now offering a first runner-up discount in selected auctions. That means if we come in right behind the winner when the auction closes (which happens to me a lot) we might qualify for a discounted price of 50% OFF if we do a Buy-It-Now.

At the same time, DealDash is running a 2X (time as the highest bidder multiplier) so we get 18 seconds on the clock for each bid placed, instead of 9 seconds. That makes our green line move a lot faster so we can earn our free bid pack more quickly.

Bottom Line

Winning just a few awesome deals like the ones I listed above makes shopping on DealDash well worthwhile. 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.

DealDash.com always highlights and celebrates our national holidays with many special features, and the Fourth of July holiday will be a huge celebration as well that DealDash shoppers will not want to miss.

DealDash will offer special bid packs, a car, some special patriot items, and a significantly large time as highest bidder bonus as well as super cheap bids!

Of course, patriotic Americans have made it a tradition to celebrate our Independence Day with family gatherings, outdoor barbecues of hotdogs and hamburgers, watermelon, potato salad and spectacular displays of fireworks. In fact, Americans are expected to consume 150 million hot dogs during the 4^th.

But what is this holiday really all about and how much do we really know about the history of the Fourth of July? Did you know the most difficult color to produce in a fireworks display is the color blue?

July 4^th History

The vote for independence actually took place on July 2^nd and the first public readings of the Declaration of Independence took place July 8, 1776 in Philadelphia’s Independence Square? However, the Continental Congress formally adopted the Declaration of Independence, announcing the colonies’ separation from Great Britain, on July 4.

Ever since July 4, 1777, Independence Day was celebrated with bonfires, bells and fireworks.  The U.S. Congress made Independence Day an unpaid holiday for federal employees. It was not until 1938, however, that Congress changed Independence Day to be a paid federal holiday.

This year, the 4^th of July comes on a Sunday. Does that mean working people will still get a federal holiday? Yes. When Independence Day is on a Saturday, it is observed on Friday and when July 4 is on a Sunday like this year, it is observed on Monday, July 5.  Government offices and schools will be closed.

Why Shop on July 4

Often times during a special holiday like July 4, many other DealDash shoppers are so busy with family and friends that they might not have time to shop. That means it might be the best time to shop because we might have a lot less competition.

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.