DealDash Tips

When I’m working with a limited number of bids, I look for a low-BIN auction that often sells for 31 bids or less.

Even when we are going through tough times with limited funds, we should still log in to DealDash every day. Who knows, in a few months or a year from now our tight budget might get better, and we would not want to miss out on any of the new items that sell at a bargain price.

We can still win auctions with a limited-number of bids if we focus on low-BIN auctions. Let’s take a close look at a few of them below.

Fashion Necklace

I see an 18K Gold Plated Blue Mini Triangle Fashion Necklace with the low-BIN of $90 that often sold to winners for 31 bids or less. If you prefer wearing a mini but nice necklace, this one might put a smile on your face. Just yesterday (as of this writing) this necklace once again sold at a bargain price. For example:

• Jan. 11, this fashion necklace sold at 58 cents and the winner paid a total of $1.14 including the cost of the 5 bids placed;
• Jan. 8, this necklace sold at $1.58 and the winner paid a total of $1.99 including the cost of the 8 bids placed;
• Jan. 14, this necklace sold at 10 cents and the winner paid a total of only 81 cents including the cost of the 4 bids placed;
• Jan. 15 (today), this necklace told at 25 cents and the winner paid a total of $2.45 including the cost of the 11 bids placed.

Out of the last 14 auctions, 6 of the winners used less than 19 bids. That means almost half of these DealDashers used 20 bids or less to win.

Foundation Cosmetics

I see a set of 5 bottles of Foundation Cosmetics with the low-BIN of $115. This auction often sold to winners for 31 bids or less. In fact (as of this writing), the winner used 31 bids or less in 31 of the last 49 auctions. Therefore, I would say this is another easy-to-win low-BIN auction. For example:

• Jan. 6, this auction sold at 2 cents and the winner paid a total of 21 cents including the cost of the 1 bid placed;
• Jan. 8, this auction sold at 26 cents and the winner paid a total of $1.26 including the cost of the 6 bids placed;
• Jan. 10, this set of Foundation Makeup sold at $4.03 and the winner paid a total of $7.63 including the cost of the 18 bids placed;
• Jan. 14, this set of Foundation Makeup sold at 15 cents and the winner paid a total of 61 cents counting the cost of the 3 bids placed.

The bottom line

If we look for low-BIN auctions we can find auctions we can win with 31 bids or less, and the best thing about bidding in a low-BIN auction is that if we do not win it, we can probably afford to use BIN and get all of our bids back for free.

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.

Did you see the inflatable standup paddle board that DealDash.com has up for auction? It’s not too early to plan ahead and get ready for some fun in the spring.

The paddle board has a BIN of $762.00 but so far 17 of the last 19 winners got it for less. Let’s take a look at some of the best deals past winners received:

• Jan. 6, this inflatable standup paddle board sold at $8.81 and the winner paid a total of $50.80 including the cost of the 243 bids placed.
• Jan. 2, this paddle board sold at $50.59 and the winner paid a total of $25.45 including the cost of the 64 bids placed. It must have sold during a special when the winner gets 50 to 90 percent off.
• Dec. 26, this paddle board sold at $12.13 and the winner paid a total of $36.33 including the cost of the 121 bids placed.

This auction includes 1 paddle board, 1 durable backpack, 1 hand pump with pressure gauge, 1 10-inch ankle leash, 1 compact 3-piece aluminum paddle and 1 repair kit.

I was surprised to learn that inflatable paddle boards exist, but they must be very sturdy because they support a rider weight up to 308 pounds and, according to the auction description, its square tail also provides more stability through bumps on the water. The 3-layer structure makes these paddle boards more durable, too

Perhaps another advantage of being inflatable is that it’s easier to carry because it only weighs 25.4 pounds. The inflated size is 10-foot, 6-inches by 32-inches by 6-inches and the maximum pressure is 15 PSI. One more awesome feature is that this paddle board inflates and deflates in just minutes.

Paddle board history

According to my research, Duke Kahanamoku, a famous surfer, is given credit for inventing the paddleboard. Modern standup paddle boarding (SUP) began in the 1940s in Waikiki, Hawaii. However, research records show that earlier forms of SUP have been found as early as 3,000 B.C. in various regions such as Peru, Levant, Italy and China.

Some reasons SUP has become so popular is because (unlike some other water sports) it’s easy to learn and the whole family can get involved – children, seniors and even the family dog.

SUP is a very healthy sport because it uses our leg muscles to maintain our balance. It also utilizes our arms, back, shoulders and abs to propel the paddleboard in the water. The core back and abdominal muscles are constantly used to maintain our balance. Another health benefit is that SUP can also reduce anxiety and depression. It surprised me to learn that scientific studies have shown that simply being near bodies of water can reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression.

While paddle boarding can attract shark, it does not make us more susceptible to shark attacks than other water sports like surfing, swimming, kayaking, or any other surface-level water activity.

The bottom line

Paddle boarding can be healthy and fun for the entire family, and now we have the opportunity to shop for a great paddle board on DealDash.com. 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.

Did you see the autographed football helmets from the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Atlanta Steelers on DealDash.com?  Right now they are a pretty hot item.

Having the opportunity to get a real collector’s autographed football helmet at a winning price does not come along very often.

The Pittsburg Steelers helmet has been personally hand-signed by JuJu Smith-Schuster, and the Atlanta Steelers helmet has been personally hand-signed by Todd Gurley II.

According to the auction description these helmets are “officially licensed by the National Football League and comes with an individually numbered, tamper-evident hologram from Fanatics Authentic.”

The BIN for the signed authentic helmet is $700.00 but on Dec. 31 the winner of the first Atlanta Falcons helmet won it for only $88.61 including the cost of the 390 bids placed. The winners of the Pittsburgh Steelers autographed helmet paid more than that but one of the last three winners got a pretty good deal. On New Year’s Day the auction sold at $58.03 and the winner paid $331.31 including the cost of the 1,584 bids placed.

Therefore, if you are a football fan or have a football fan in your family, you might want to get on board with the next auction.

A history of football helmets

The evolution of football helmets is rather interesting.

According to my research, James Naismith, a Canadian-American physical educator, physician, Christian chaplain and sports coach, has been given credit for inventing the first football helmet on Dec. 2, 1893.

It was not until the 1920s, however, that the helmets were widely used in the sport of football. These early helmets were made of leather and ha some padding on the inside, but the padding was not sufficient and provided little protection. They also lacked face masks. Therefore, injuries were still very common. George Owen, who played for the Boston Bruins in 1928 to 1929, was the first player to regularly wear a helmet for protective purposes. It was not until the 1943, however, that the players were required to wear helmets in the NFL. In 1948, the Los Angeles Rams became the first team to have a logo painted on the helmets of an NFL team.

It was not until 1949 that the NFL officially adopted the plastic helmet, and the face bars were finally added to the helmets in the mid-1950s. Vern McMillan, the owner of a sporting goods store in Terre Haute, Indiana, was the first person to design a bar face mask on a football helmet.

Interestingly, tests were run on hundreds of helmets to learn if 20-year-old helmets were still good, and these tests proved that the age of the helmets did not significantly affect the performance of the protective foam in helmets for up to 26 years old.

Usually a sticker near/under the liner above either ear hole lists a 4-digit code or month and year and that’s how someone can tell when the helmet was manufactured.

The Cleveland Browns have traditionally never had a logo on their helmet. This is because they are the only team in the NFL to be named after a coach. The Cleveland Browns were named after their legendary coach, Paul Brown.

The bottom line

If you are a football fan, you will not want to miss participating in the autographed football helmet auctions. So get into the game and have fun!

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.

Over the last 10 years, I’ve been watching to see what smart shoppers can do to win more for less on DealDash.com.

Perhaps they don’t all do exactly the same things but I’ve come up with a list of some things smart shoppers can do to make the most of their money and bids.

Actually, I’m a little surprised that DealDash allows me to write about how to spend the least amount of money and use the least number of bids to win auctions. Why would they do that?  DealDash wants everyone to become winners. They understand that by putting customers first it becomes a win-win situation. Happy shoppers become life-long customers.

So let’s take a look at what smart shoppers do.

Buy bids when they are on sale

Smart shoppers should always purchase bid packs when they go on sale. We should wait until the bid packs are offered at the lowest possible price per bid, and that’s the best time to get enough bids to last until they go on sale again.

Always collect free bids

Smart shoppers take advantage of free bids and earn all the free bids they can get. DealDash has many opportunities to get free bids.

We can get 200 free bids by sending in an “unboxing” video of something we won on DealDash or by sending in a video of our response to the “Question of the Week.” All we have to do is send our videos to: [email protected] but we might have to buy at least one bid pack in the last 7 days to qualify. To read all about it, go to: https://www.dealdash.com/blog/dealdash-bingo/.

We can also get as many as 30 free bids every day if we log-in to DealDash every day, and place 30 bids every day. The key is to make sure we never miss a day. If we do, we have to start all over again until we get back up to 30 free bids. We can never get back more than the number of bids we placed the day before. The catch here is that we can never get back more bids than we placed the day before.

Smart shoppers participate in the daily bid challenge.” This is an easy way to collect free bids. Each day we sign-in to DealDash the daily bid challenge changes. We might get 10 free bids by placing at least one bid on 5 “Computers and Electronics” auctions. If we place only one bid in 5 of these auctions we can gain 5 free bids a day. This might not seem like a lot, but in a month that would add up to 150 free bids.

Of course, everyone automatically earns free bids every time we shop on DealDash. For every bid we place, we earn 9 seconds on the clock. When our green line on the bottom right-hand side of our computer screen moves all the way to the right, we collect a free bundle of bids. I don’t know where the green line shows up on other electronic devices to track our time. However, there is another way we can make the green line move even faster.

Take advantage of the Time as Highest Bidder Multiplier

Smart shoppers will hold the bulk of their bids until we see the special feature where we get 2X, 3X or 4X time on the clock. That makes our green line move even faster to end when we get to collect our free bids.

Shop on weekdays and holidays

Smart shoppers will shop when the majority of the other DealDash customers are less likely to shop. During the week days many people are busy at work and they tend to do their DealDash shopping mostly on weekends. During the holidays, many DealDash customers are too busy with family and other holiday events to go on DealDash.

Bid when there is less competition

Smart shoppers will look for auctions with very few active customers.

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.