4th of July is Coming – Get Out the Grill

The 4th of July is coming up in just a couple of weeks. Get the grills prepared for hot dogs and hamburgers!

The 4th of July is the best time to have a cookout with the family, play some games out in the yard, and grill up some fresh meat on your BBQ grill! After that, it’s time for some ice cream, fresh-squeezed lemonade, and then watch the fireworks when it gets dark out. All-in-all, the 4th of July is one awesome holiday! DealDash can help with some of the fun. Read on for more tips on how to make your holiday great.

Get Your Grill Ready. No Grill? No problem!

We are a couple of weeks out from the 4th of July, so there is still time to win some items on DealDash and have them delivered. Whether it’s a grill you need, or perhaps some deck furniture, DealDash has you covered with products and gift cards for auction. Now is the time to get everything prepared for your family cookout, picnic, or get together for the 4th of July. Do you have everything that you need?

Is your grill in good shape and working properly? You’re going to need a fully-functional grill with fuel if you’re having a barbecue this holiday. DealDash always has grills up for auction, as well as gift cards if you don’t see the particular one that you want. Lowes has an excellent selection of grills available, and DealDash often has Lowes gift cards up for auction. Maybe you already have your grill and just need some grilling accessories. No problem! DealDash has those as well.

Entertain Your Guests

Typically when you have a 4th of July BBQ you invite family, and sometimes even friends and neighbors. They’re not just there for the meat, they’re there for the fun and entertainment as well. Here are some ideas for yard games that you might want to have ready for your guests:

Badminton
Croquet
Cornhole
Horseshoes

And for the younger guests, there are plenty of things that you can have on hand to entertain them as well:

Bubbles
Sprinkler
Jumprope
Nerf Guns
Water guns
Kiddy pool
Small bounce house

Get Your Bids Ready

Be sure to stock up your bids (and your fridge!) for your Independence Day celebration, and then check out DealDash. Bid packs come in different amounts of bids. You can get a pack of 60, 300, 600, 1200, or 2400. The prices of the bids change daily, DealDash has different sales each day. Bids cost between .12-.60 per bid. The most common price for bids is around $.15-.17, so if you see them for less than that, you should take advantage of it and buy the largest bid pack that you can at that time.

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The 4th of July is coming. Be sure that you’re ready! DealDash has everything that you need to throw a great barbecue! I hope that this article has been helpful for you. Go check out the site . Good luck and happy bidding everyone!

This sponsored blog article was written by Dawn E, a mother of 3 who loves DealDash. Dawn was compensated for writing this article. Read even more at DealDashTips.com, DealDashReviewed.com, or on her own blog, DawnBlogtopus.

Being an Intermediate Bidder on DealDash

Being a newbie on DealDash is easy. Being an intermediate bidder can be a little trickier…

When you first open your account on DealDash and begin bidding you should get your first wins fairly quickly. When you’re a newbie and haven’t won anything DealDash typically adds in a few small auctions so you are only bidding against other newbies. Why do they do this? It’s so you can get a feel for how to bid and how the site in general works.

When you are first starting to bid it’s smart to start small with a $10 gift card or a small item so that you can see how the bidding process works. There is also a tutorial on DealDash so you can go through a pretend auction and see how it works. If you complete the tutorial you will also receive 10 free bids when you complete it for winning the mock auction.

What’s Next As a Bidder?

Once you’ve won some small auctions and have a good feel for how the site works, then you can move on to bigger and better prizes. How do you know when you’re ready to move on to bigger prizes? It totally depends on you! However, being prepared is a good way to win things big and small, so I would suggest that you start doing your research on not just the items but other bidders as well.

If you’re wondering how you can get more information on DealDash auctions, it’s easy. Anyone can get this information at any time, no matter if they’re bidding in the auction or just observing. Simply open up any auction page and it will tell you a lot of the information that you need to know. On the left side, from top to bottom you will see the BIN (Buy It Now) price, the previous winners and what the auction ended at, and then below that, you will see the bidders currently bidding on the auction. As they are bidding you will see each person’s avatar pop up, and their bidding bio, which is just a few sentences that they wrote about themselves.

Interested in the Money Back Guarantee?

If you’ve tried bidding as a newbie and have decided that DealDash just isn’t for you – no problem! DealDash offers a “No Questions Asked 100% Money Back Guarantee” on any bidder’s first bid pack purchase. If any bidder is unsatisfied with the DealDash website for any reason they are entitled to get their entire first Bid Pack purchase fully refunded.

It’s easy to be refunded, and there will be no hard feelings! Even after getting a refund you are still allowed to participate on DealDash – but there will be no more refunds on bid packs. You can email [email protected] within 90 days of your first bid pack purchase and request the refund. The refund will be credited back to you in 7 days. The refund will be granted regardless of if you have won or lost auctions, or whether you have bids left on your account or not. Only 1 refund per person, no exceptions, sorry.

Thanks for Reading the Blog

I hope that you have enjoyed bidding on DealDash as a newbie and will continue on to being an intermediate bidder. I hope that this article has been helpful for you. Go check out the site and enjoy being an intermediate bidder. Good luck and happy bidding everyone!

This sponsored DealDash blog article was written by Dawn E, a mother of 3 who loves DealDash. Dawn was compensated for writing this article. Read even more at DealDashTips.com, DealDashReviewed.com, or on her own blog, DawnBlogtopus.

How to Navigate & Win When 50 (or More!) Auctions Start at the Same Time on DealDash

It’s one of the most exciting promotions DealDash offers—those times when they offer 50, 75 or more auctions that start at the same time! When I first started bidding, I avoided these times at all costs. It was overwhelming and intimidating to me—but no more! Below are a few helpful tips to help you navigate the waters of this truly amazing promotion and get the win!

Preview Items in Advance & Set Bookmarks

Check out the items up for auction. Make note of any items you really want to win and focus on those. Use the bookmarking feature to make sure you have those items at the top of your page—front and center—and don’t miss those auctions!

Don’t Be Put Off by the Number of Bidders

The competition is high during these promotions—or at least it might seem that way. Many bidders want to get in on the action and take a chance on winning something for a few bids. Therefore, they place one to a handful of bids to make sure they get in on an auction early in case it goes over the $5 cutoff. Patience is key. Do not be intimidated by the increased number of bidders that sometimes happens during these types of promotions.

Be Aware of Unique Items Being Offered

During these promotions you will sometimes see unique items that do not appear in the regular DealDash rotation. This may include an item you always wanted to win but don’t see much anymore, so now could be your time! Make note of these seldom-offered items if they are something you’d like to bid on. Competition on these types of items could be high or low. If you’ve got the bids, take the chance!

As Always, Use Bid Buddy

Bid Buddy on DealDash is truly a bidder’s best friend. And there’s simply no easier way to stay in the game during a promotion when multiple auctions start at the same time. If you’re getting in on multiple auctions at the same time, I’d recommending adding a few extra bids to each auction for a cushion.

Check on Your Auctions as they Happen…or Not!

I’m an auction watcher. If I can’t dedicate the time to watch my auctions as they are happening, I rarely bid. But that’s just me. I like to have the option of backing out of an auction in the moment but there are some who are more comfortable setting their bids and walking away. Checking on auctions later allows you the great surprise of a win and the peace of mind that you’re not stressing over your bids in the moment.

Here’s hoping these tips for navigating the Multiple Auctions Starting at the Same Time promotions help you to win something great! Happy bidding!

This sponsored blog post was written by Theresa B., MMA fan, grandmother and ardent practitioner of sarcastic wit. Theresa was compensated by DealDash for this blog post.

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Does DealDash Differ?

If you’ve bid on other sites, you know DealDash is different. Here are some ways that DealDash is amazing.

Customer Service is Top Notch

I have been bidding on DealDash for years, and I have had very few problems. However, no website is perfect, so I have occasionally had to email customer service for one thing or another. For example, once I had an item arrived damaged. I’m not sure if it had been damaged in transit or what, but regardless, it wasn’t in “100% new and factory-fresh” condition, so I emailed customer service. They emailed me back within just a few hours and arranged an exchange for me. There was no fuss, no hassle, and no pressure.

DealDash Won’t Telemarket You

Speaking of pressure, there is another entertainment bidding site out there that relies on high-pressure sales techniques for their bids. I had signed up for them around the time that I had signed up for DealDash, to see which site I liked better. Well, this other site included a space for a phone number that was required, so I put it in. They called me within moments of me signing up and tried to pressure me into buying $1,000 worth of bids on the spot. When I said “No thanks, I’m not sure if I’ll like your site or not.” they kept trying to convince me. It was like a telemarketing call, it was awful. I ended up hanging up on him.

DealDash would never do that. As I’ve said before, I’ve been with them for years, and the only time that they have ever called me was for a survey, and they emailed me first to ask if they could call me. And when I was on that phone call with DealDash there was absolutely zero talk about trying to get me to buy bids, it was just a customer satisfaction survey which I was happy to participate in.

Free Shipping for WINs and BINs

Unlike those other bidding sites, DealDash offers FREE shipping on every single item, no matter how big or how small. That is one of the reasons that I originally thought that DealDash was much better than some of the other bidding sites. Other entertainment shopping websites offer free shipping on just gift cards, or small items and have excessive “handling charges” on other items.

Did you know that some of the other sites even charge to ship gift cards? To ship a single gift card with a receipt in an envelope should cost 1 stamp. If you take into account the company’s cost of paper, envelope, and stamp I could agree with them charging around a dollar to ship a gift card. However, some sites are charging upwards of $2 to ship a single gift card, which is at least double, if not more, than it actually costs them. That seems completely unfair to me.

Didn’t WIN? Then BIN!

Speaking of unfair, how unfair is it to spend your bids in an auction and have no way to get them back if you lose? There will be plenty of times that you don’t win the auction. Personally, I win about 1 in 10 of the auctions that I seriously participate in. I’m fine with those odds, because I know that I can get all of my bids back by buy Buying It Now (BIN) if I don’t win. After you pay for a BIN, DealDash will refund all of the bids that you spent on the auction. You can use them again right away or save them, depending on how you’re feeling that day.

Thanks for Reading

Thanks so much for reading this DealDash Blog article today. Don’t forget to check back often for new articles here are well as on our other blogs, DealDash Reviewed and DealDash Tips. We hope that your DealDash experience is a good one. Please let us know how we’re doing in the comments down below.

It’s time to WIN and BIN! DealDash has some awesome products up today! Visit DealDash now to see how much you can save. Good luck and happy bidding everyone!