Category: Bidding Tips

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When to Buy it Now on DealDash

One thing many DealDash.com customers appear to be most confused about is when to Buy It Now, also known as BIN.

Perhaps some new customers do not yet know when to buy it now because they are not even aware they can stop bidding at any time during the auction, buy the auction item at retail and get all of their bids back free to use again in another auction.

I once stopped bidding on a $25 gift card, did a BIN, got my bids back and put them on a $50 gift card (with fewer competitors) instead. I ended  — Read full post

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7 Most Useful Dashboard Functions

DealDash gives you your own personal dashboard page which has all of the information you need to keep track of your bidding.

Your dashboard contains a public profile page to say a little bit about who you are. This is called the Bidder Bio and when you fill this out DealDash actually gives you 3 free bids! Your bidder bio will show up every time you place a bid on an auction. I see a lot of people who don’t bother to fill this in. Why not? Go claim your free bids!

Also see: Review of Revealing DealDash Bios

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The Losing to Win Strategy Explained

Often times I enter a couple of auctions simultaneous, for similar items, hoping to come out on top of at least one of them. I do this by losing to win. Here’s how.

Once I was bidding in two different auctions for the same sound sleep machine and against the same bidder. We were just slowly losing our bids by trading them back and forth for the auction win between the two of us. I wondered, what if one of use stopped bidding in one of the auctions. Would the other bidder do the same in the second auction? Would  — Read full post

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Online Shopping and Surprising Friends

How impressed are your friends when you tell them you do online shopping? How about if they know you did your online shopping on DealDash?

I have one friend that I told to star online shopping on DealDash.com however they weren’t as impressed because she has not won as many auctions as I have. The problem with that is she is not bidding responsibly. I have explained to her how to use all of the tools that DealDash gives you to make your experience an enjoyable one, however she has not “followed the directions” and therefore has not done as  — Read full post

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Two Reasons I Might Overbid on Purpose

Why would anyone purposely overbid on DealDash.com?

“How dumb is that?” you might ask.  Actually, it might not be so dumb… sometimes.

I have been bidding on DealDash for over 2.5 years. Most of the time, I do not overbid but I might choose to overbid on purpose when:

1. DealDash.com is running a special offer and customers earn 3X or 5X on their Time as Highest Bidder clock to win free bids.
2. I recognize screen names of one or two stubborn bidders that I know will never quit and never allow me to “win.”

That is when I know it  — Read full post