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How The Research Bidding Strategy Can Help You Win

Researching the items you plan on bidding on before bidding on them can be very useful and help you improve your chances of winning. After all, research is one of the many different strategies which can be used to win auctions.

I know the days get away from you when you “intended” to do something. You wanted to research that KitchenAid Mixer you’ve been wanting but life got in the way and instead you may have just jumped into bidding hoping to get the win. One of the most useful strategies is to take the time to research the item.

There are many different ways research can be done at DealDash.

1. You can research the item by searching out the product you’re looking for using DealDash’s search functionality.

Once you search out the item you’re wanting you can dive deeper into your research of the product by making sure it’s the exact model you’re looking for by reading the description and see what price it recently sold for.

2. Another way to research the item you’re looking for is to see what the average selling price for the item is. This is a great research strategy to use and will help you know when it’s a good time to enter an auction. Take this KitchenAid Mixer for example. When logged out of our DealDash account, we can quickly see what the average selling price on DealDash is.

This helps you out in many ways because you can see the average ending price which can help you determine when to start bidding and conserve your bids.

Did you notice how one of those mixers sold for only $3.27? The auctions can be very unpredictable which is one of the reasons shopping on DealDash is so exciting and fun. The bidder silverado5 got a heck of a deal!

3. Research the number of bids you are willing to use in the auction. Factor in what the bids cost you and the final sales price of the auction. Make sure you stick to this budget and don’t overspend to the point where it makes more sense to buy it now and get your bids back. Here’s some simple math to help you determine how many bids to use in the auction.

Item value divided by price per bid = max number of bids to use not including final sales price.

4. Finally, research articles from this blog site and others like DealDashTips and DealDashReviewed for more bidding tips and strategies to help you become a better bidder, win more auctions and ultimately have an enjoyable shopping experience.

Improve Your Odds of Winning – 3 Things You Can Do

Did you ever wonder what you could do to improve your odds of winning more auctions on DealDash.com?

To improve your odds of winning on DealDash, here are a few points to take into consideration when bidding.

Looking at how many serious bidders are in the auction can help you improve your odds of winning. You could be better off waiting for the same product to come up for bid again when the competition might be much lower. Customers often place only one bid at the beginning of the auction and never come back. I double click on the auction item so I can count how many serious bidders have placed bids into the automated bidder, BidBuddy. Obviously, if there are only a few serious bidders you will improve your odds of winning in that auction compared to an auction where there are a dozen or more serious bidders.
Improve your odds of winning by becoming familiar with DealDash bidder screen names and avoid bidding in the same auctions with the most heavy-handed bidders. I pay attention to screen names and I have a list of bidders I avoid like the plague. If they jump into the auction after I am already there, I often cancel my bids and get out as soon as possible. Why? Because I know I will not improve my odds of winning if I compete with customers who consistently over-bid and drive the closing cost up.
Avoid bidding with couples with double screen names, such as AnnplusAndy (just an example made up screen name). I noticed that couples and grandmothers tend to be some of the most consistent and worst over-bidders. Perhaps they share incomes or have more time and money to splurge.

These are a few ways to improve your odds of winning more auctions on DealDash! Another recommendation to improve your odds of winning is to read more helpful articles on sites like this, DealDash Reviews and DealDash Tips.

By Sorrymyturn

The Unexpected Win

Being an active bidder, I am usually watching to see what auctions I would like to bid on. Then I determine how much I am willing to spend and how high I will go on any given auction. Having won many auctions I can still be surprised with a unexpected win.

I had been bidding on a $10 gift card that when it got down to two bidders, then more bidders would jump in. I was about done trying to win the card and had set my bid buddy for the bids I was willing to use to “win” the auction. I decided to browse the auctions that were running at the same time, (I always keep the isolated auction up on my computer when I have the bid buddy set) to see if there was another item or auction I would like to try. I found there was one item I would have liked. It was a Pulse Massager. I thought, what the heck, I will put some bids on it and see if I can win. Imagine my surprise when after only two bids I won! Congratulations! Fireworks! (I love those!) And the price was really reasonable too.

That’s one of the reasons shopping and bidding on DealDash can be so much fun. You just never know when someone else is going to quit bidding and you are the winner! Customer service is excellent, the buy it now feature is awesome, and the free (fast) shipping can’t be beat.

Thanks DealDash.com for having such a fun and fair bidding site!

By Joan Vith

The Smartest Bidding Tip For The Best Experience

Being prepared to use the Buy It Now option is one of the smartest ways to do your online shopping on DealDash.

So often I find my self asking if I have bid too much or if I should just go ahead and buy the item I’m bidding on to get all of my bids back. But when is the smartest time to do this?

When determining when to Buy it Now or keep bidding, you have to take into account how much the bids are costing when you buy them. 19 cents, 18 cents, 15 cents? I’m going to use 15 cents for this example just to make it easy math.

Let’s say your biding on a $10 gift card and you bid 20 times, you have already spent $3.00.

20 x .15 = 3

By the time you have bid 20 times, often the auction price is up to at least $1.00 taking into account the other bids people have placed. I am all about saving but at this point it may not look as if I am going to win the auction so I have to make a choice.

A.) If I win now, I’ll only save $6. Are the potential savings worth it?

B.) Should I buy the $10 gift card and get back my 20 bids to put somewhere else?

There was one time I threw a large amount of bids on a vacuum cleaner. My vacuum had recently broke so I needed to buy a new vacuum cleaner anyway. I bought a 200 bids pack during a 15¢ sale and was able to level up during the auction where I earned an additional 150 free bids. At this point I had 350 bids to use towards trying to win this auction. I told my self “win or not, this was going to be my next vacuum”. So I started bidding and bidding and on this occasion I did not win.

I did however use the buy it now option so I could have the vacuum I wanted plus I got back all the bids I used in that auction. The vacuum was only valued at $100 so the price did not kill me. I then took my 350 bids and ended up winning over $300 in merchandise!! Being prepared and using the buy it now option is the smartest way to bid and to truly enjoy the fun shopping experience DealDash has to offer.

DealDash is an awesome way to do your shopping – not only during the holidays but all year-long!

By Nicole Kososki 😛

Prevent Holiday Gift Shopping Anxiety

You Better Watch out, You Better Not Cry, You Better Not Pout, I’m telling you why….. there’s still time to prevent holiday gift shopping anxiety and DealDash is here to HELP!

Let’s face it, holiday gift shopping anxiety is real and can hamper the joy and cheer of the season if not nipped in the bud! After all, Christmas is only 2 months away and time keeps on slipping..slipping..slipping..into the future – for a better experience click on the link and listen to music video while you keep on reading this blog post.

This time of year is always a crazy time of year, most folks wait until November before they even start to think about holiday gift shopping, which can cause many people including myself a downer case of holiday gift shopping anxiety. For a long time I also always waited until November to start planning my Christmas shopping. Due to this I found myself always feeling the holiday gift shopping anxiety and stressed because of time constraints, traffic, packed shopping malls, etc. Then I found DealDash! A place where I can have fun while I shop from home for a chance to get good deals and gifts for my family and friends.

Last year, I did all of my Christmas shopping by the middle of November which I thought was pretty good and so far this year I have already completed almost all of my shopping. Thanks to DealDash.com my holiday gift shopping anxiety is lower than ever and pretty much non-existent. My Christmas gift stash is growing so fast, I am practically running out of room. My fiance said “you’re going to need a storage room to store all of your DealDash winnings, we’re running out of space” LOL!

Related: Christmas Countdown Has Begun!

I’m so excited this year to give my little guy this new Imaginext Rescue City Center by Fisher Price. I won this for him on DealDash for just 89 cents and used only 25 bids! Talk about a great deal which takes some of the holiday gift shopping anxiety away. I know he is going to love this when he gets to open it on Christmas morning.

DealDash has gifts for all ages, young and old, boys or girls. To quickly and easily find what you’re looking for I recommend using the filter options to browse different categories and use the search functionality to get more specific. Try searching an auction now!

You’ll be happy to know that on DealDash you can score some really good deals and save big when you win an auction, just as I did on the Imaginext Rescue City Center. Remember if you don’t win the auction you can just buy it at retail price and DealDash will ship your item for free! They’ll even give you back all the bids you used in the auction so you can try again for something else. The Buy it Now option is really a win-win-win. Here’s how:

You got the item you wanted
You got free shipping
You have a new gift to give for the holidays
You get to check an item off your holiday shopping list
You avoided the holiday shopping crowds
You helped yourself avoid unnecessary holiday gift shopping anxiety
You got your bids back to try for something else
You don’t need to buy more bids in order to keep playing

If you are going to buy more bids, I recommend waiting until DealDash has them on sale for 15¢. For example today you can get bids for just 15¢ because of the Columbus Day Weekend Sale so now would be a good time to stock up!

So why wait until the last-minute to do your holiday shopping and generate holiday gift shopping anxiety? If you want to get a good deal, the time is now! You can get ahead of the game this year and score some great deals on DealDash before the holiday rush starts. By starting now, I’m sure you will have a much better time leading up to the big day and not be as stressed out by all of the last-minute to-do’s.

Wouldn’t you rather lay your head down at night knowing your holiday shopping is all set and think about how excited your family will be when they get their gifts instead of worrying about what are you going to get them? Enjoy your pre-holiday shopping season and avoid the holiday gift shopping anxiety.

By loveablenicki

I’ve been shopping on DealDash for two years and continue to love it.