Ho Ho Ho – Christmas Shopping on DealDash!

With the holidays fast approaching and the site already crawling with hundreds if not thousands of bargain seekers, I am thinking that this is only going to ramp up as the holidays get closer. So, with that knowledge in mind, I have already secured all of my gifts PRIOR to the holiday rush. If I were a newbie to DD, I would certainly start shopping now BEFORE the onslaught of desperate holiday shoppers begin to inundate any and all auctions, especially electronics which are already harder to win than they were even just 3 or 4 months ago.

So, if you are going into the holiday season thinking that you are going to score little Susie an I-Pad for 20 bucks, I would rethink that strategy if I were you because these auctions are getting more and more expensive and harder to win. I would bid on things you were going to buy anyway so the stress level is cut way down. If you don’t win the auction, you can always use the wonderful “Buy it now” option and get all of your bids back that you gambled on that I-Pad.

Deal Dash will even ship it out for FREE!

One thing that has become crystal clear to me as I spend more and more bids trying to win items I had previously won for a lot less is that I should be willing to shell out the BIN price BEFORE I go for the item so I am not crushed when I drop 1K bids on that item I thought would be mine for just a few dollars. That way I still get my item and I can take those bids and try to win something else. You never know….every once in a while, you can get VERY lucky. I won two 100.00 Amazon gift cards with 100 free bids attached just a week or so apart and I paid 86 bids for the first one (less than the 100 I got back when I won) and just 32 bids for the second one. The total in money was less than 4.00 for both (one was during free auction weekend) so based on 16 cent bids, I paid less than 25 bucks for both 100.00 cards AND 200 bids! Not too shabby!

Happy Holidays and bid with your head – not over it!