I have been playing on DealDash for over 2 years and have won hundreds of auctions. Every day I see people lose auctions because of the one simple bidding mistake and today I want to try and help you avoid this.<\/p>\n
DealDash has a feature called Bid Buddy which\u00a0basically will do the bidding for you. All you have to do is enter the number of bids you want to use in the auction and click Book Bid Buddy. You can cancel at anytime and any unused bids will be returned back to your account – win or lose. Using the Bid Buddy will help you\u00a0save more bids because it will only bid for you when there are no single bids being placed\u00a0and during the last second of the auction clock. I use this to my advantage every time I bid on DealDash.<\/p>\n
I was really interested in winning\u00a0this train table for my son (pictured below). One of the other bidders helped me do just that because they were making this\u00a0crucial bidding mistake.<\/p>\n
I can tell who is using their Bid Buddy and who is not. The people who are using Bid Buddy are bidding smart because they are conserving their bids and therefore more intimidating then the bid jumpers who single bid using the Bid Now button immediately after someone else bids.<\/p>\n
I was watching this train table auction every minute and once the\u00a0auction hit $5.00 (the No Jumper limit) there were\u00a0only two people remaining who were using their\u00a0Bid Buddy. I waited for the right time to enter the auction and booked my BidBuddy. Sure enough there was a new person that\u00a0entered\u00a0in as well, however this new person was making a bidding mistake which would later cause them to lose the auction.<\/p>\n
They were going to lose because they were outbidding\u00a0every other bidder until the price reached $8! I calculated they wasted\u00a0approximately\u00a0150 bids because they were single bidding and not using the Bid Buddy. Due to this persons fast single bidding I was able to save my bids even longer and wait until one of the two on Bid Buddy left the auction before joining again.<\/p>\n
In the end I spent a total of 55 bids (at 15\u00a2 per bid = $8.25) and won the auction with a final sales price of $8.31. Although this was a\u00a0great strategic win for me, I do feel a bit sorry for the others who were bid stomping away with single bids while I had my Bid Buddy booked. Why weren’t they using the Bid Buddy?<\/p>\n
As for the bid jumper who was bidding every other bid from $5 to $8, they used approximately 150 bids which would cost\u00a0$22.50 at 15\u00a2 per bid. Of course they had the option to Buy it Now and get their 150 bids back however if they would have put their\u00a0150 bids into the Bid Buddy they would have out bid me for sure!<\/p>\n
I’m sure there’s going to be other people making this same bidding mistake. Fortunately for us, we know this\u00a0secret to conserving our bids which will help us win\u00a0on DealDash.<\/p>\n
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