DealDash Bid Packs
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How Small Bid Packs May Help You

We all know that you can spend a lot of money on bids and still not win the items you want when playing DealDash. You can use all the tricks in the world like waiting people out and bid buddy, but sometimes it just isn’t enough to win you that elusive auction. One of my DealDash bidding recommendations to remember is to slow down and don’t forget to go for some bid packs.

Now when I say bid packs, most people think the 1000 to 5000 bid packs are the way to go. Which is really great if you get  — Read full post

Cost to bid on DealDash
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Cost to Purchase Buying Power on DealDash

So you’ve looked over the DealDash site and found a number of items that interest you. You’ve decided which one you are going to focus on, how much you are willing to pay for that item and are planning on sticking to that budget. Have you bought your bids yet? What was the cost or how much did you pay for them?

My advice is “don’t buy bids at full price unless you absolutely cannot avoid it”. In my opinion, if you paid full price for them, you did not make an educated decision and here’s why I say this.  — Read full post

DealDash Christmas
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Christmas Is Four Months Away

I know we are still four months away from Christmas but I am starting my DealDash Christmas shopping now!

I need to stretch my gifts budget as far as I can so before the Christmas shopping rush gets too overwhelming, I’m stocking up on my stocking stuffers and gifts. 

My oldest daughter is married and they live on the income her husband makes as the sole bread winner. I know they need household items, including furniture, so I scanned the pages of DealDash auctions in hopes to find something suitable I could win and gift to them. I saw an  — Read full post

DealDash Username
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DealDash Username – What Does It Say About You?

“A rose by any other name would smell as sweet” is a commonly quoted part of a dialogue in William Shakespeare‘s play Romeo and Juliet. This got me thinking about my DealDash username.

What’s Your DealDash username and what does it say about you? Is it tricky? Is it threatening? Is it cute? Or, is your DealDash username just your name spelled out a bit differently? On DealDash.com there are over 4,000,000 registered users all with unique DealDash usernames. Think about the different usernames we have to come up with in order to be unique or different!

Some  — Read full post

Buy it Now on DealDash
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Buy it Now After Quick and Easy Math

Before I begin bidding on DealDash.com I figure out how many bids I am willing to use to win each auction, based on the retail value of the item I want and the final closing cost before I decide to move forward with the Buy it Now option.

It is not necessary to use a calculator to get an exact figure. Instead, I found a quick and easy way to do the math and still get a pretty good idea how many bids I can use in an auction without paying more than an item is worth, and know when  — Read full post