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There’s Still Time to Bid on Father’s Day Gifts

 

Most of us have a special guy in our life that we would like to celebrate on Father’s Day, be it your own Father, Grandfather, Uncle, Husband, or even just a good friend. Let DealDash help you get a great gift for Dad.

Father’s Day is coming up on June 19th, and DealDash has so many different and wonderful things available to bid on that it might be hard to pick just what Dad might like this year. Don’t be intimidated, you don’t have to get Dad a boring tie again this year! Let’s look at some items that Dad might like to receive this Father’s Day.

It might sound a little cliche, but Dads love tools! Even if the special guy in your life already has too many tools in your opinion he would probably appreciate some more. Or if he has just about every tool that you can think of, perhaps a nice tool case would be just perfect for him? If you’d like to see the tools and tool cases that DealDash has for Dad just click this link right here.

Channellock 132-Piece Mechanic's Tool Set, 39067

If tools aren’t Dad’s hobby, how about grilling? Getting Dad something that relates to grilling is truly a win-win, Dad is happy, and will probably grill you something delicious with his new grilling items! DealDash has both grills and grilling accessories for Dad this year. Just click this link right here.

Weber Spirit E-210 2-Burner LP Gas Grill, Black

Okay, one last try for a great gift for Dad. Does Dad love to drive? How about a Shell gift card that you got on DealDash? I remember many wonderful nights that my Dad would take me on long aimless drives around town or to the beach. You need gas for that! Here’s a link to Shell gas cards.

 

60 Bids + $100 Shell Gift Card!  Gifts can be so expensive if you don’t have DealDash auctions to help you save a little money. Everyone loves to save money. Remember, DealDash ships out your wins within 4 days – now that’s fast! I hope that this article gave you a few ideas on how to get Dad a great gift. Good luck and happy bidding everyone!

 

DealDash Dashboard – Explained

Your DealDash dashboard is a very important part of your DealDash experience. If you’re just getting started it may look a little complicated.

If you go to the main page of your dashboard you will see the most important things right away – the items that you have won that are awaiting payment, your scheduled BidBuddies, and your bookmarked auctions. It’s important to be sure to check in with your dashboard’s home screen so you don’t accidentally forget to pay for an auction and lose the right to purchase the auction that you won.

If you look at the picture above, or on your own DealDash dashboard we will go down the list of items and I will tell you what each one means.

  • Who’s on their limit? – You may win 9 auctions per week. If you’d like to see who has already won their 9 auctions for the week you can pay 1 bid and see the list of “Who’s on their limit”.
  • Public profile – This is the small section where you can choose your avatar and write a quick bio sentence or two about yourself. This avatar and your bio will flash on the screen when you bid so others can see it while you are the highest bidder.
  • Buy bids – Pretty self-explanatory, this is where you can purchase bids.
  • Buy It Now History – This is where you can see what items that you have “BINned” for retail price and received your bids back.
  • Transaction history – This is where you can see the bids that you have bought, received back from BINning, and gotten from participating in social media postings.
  • Bidding history – This is where you can see what you have been spending your bids on.
  • Won auctions – Also pretty self-explanatory, you can see what you have won in the past.
  • My orders – This is where you can see all of the items you have ordered, both from winning and BINning. There will also be tracking numbers with links to track your item when they are available. You will be able to see tracking numbers on most items except lower value gift cards, which are just sent by regular postal mail.
  • Account details – You can see your saved credit cards here.
  • Bookmarked auctions – You can see what auctions that you have bookmarked. You can bookmark an auction by either booking a BidBuddy for it, or clicking the little yellow star in the upper right hand corner.
  • Contact support – This is the last item on your dashboard list. If you click this you will be taken to a form where you submit a support ticket for anything from technical questions, refunds, or enquiring where your item that you ordered is currently located.

 

  So my dear DealDashers, that is your DealDash dashboard, demystified. Pay attention to what you’re doing, check out the auctions and see what you would really like to bid on, try some easier auctions to build up knowledge, and you’ll be winning awesome stuff before you know it! See you on DealDash everyone! Good luck and happy bidding.

Staying on Budget with DealDash

 

No matter how big or small your salary it’s always a smart idea to make a budget. DealDash can help you stay within your budget. Here’s how…

DealDash can help you stay on your budget in a few different ways. There are some things that households need to buy weekly, monthly, or bi-monthly and DealDash has a lot of these items up for auction. Here are a few staple items that most households use on a regular basis.

Babies go through approximately 4-8 diapers a day depending on their age. Luckily DealDash has them up for auction occasionally. Every time you bid on diapers on DealDash you have a chance of getting a great discounted price. Even if you don’t win them you are still earning clock time towards free bids that you get to keep even if you end up BINning (Buy It Now) them and getting all of your bids back. DealDash has other baby supplies that you might need as well. You can find those items by clicking on this link here.

Pampers Swaddlers Newborn Diapers, 128 count

Does your family go through a lot of dishwashing detergent? My family sure does! We use both the dishwasher detergent as well as the regular liquid dishwashing soap for the pots and pans. We are a family of 5, so we make a lot of dirty dishes and go through the detergent very quickly. The great news is that DealDash has dishwashing detergent up for bid! They even have my favorite kind, Dawn, in both types – dishwasher detergent and regular detergent. We go through one of each every month or so, this is a great item to bid on and be willing to BIN. Remember, if you don’t win you can always BIN (Buy It Now and get all of your bids back.) If you’d like to bid on dish detergent, just go to this link here.

Dawn Ultra Antibacterial Hand Soap Dishwashing LiquidDawn Foam Refill Dishwashing Dish Detergent

 

In addition to physical products, DealDash has some awesome gift cards up for bid. Do you shop at Wal*Mart, Lowes, Old Navy, TJ Maxx, or get your gas at Shell? DealDash has gift cards for all of these places and more. When you win or BIN a gift card from DealDash you also get free shipping. If you would like to see all of the gift cards that DealDash has up for auction just click this link here and it will take you to the Gift Card category.

After reading this article I hope that you have a better idea of what types of things that DealDash has to offer that households need on a regular basis so you can stick to your budget. How about getting some of these essentials on DealDash? They have all types of items in many different categories there. Go find some awesome products. Good luck and happy bidding everyone!

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How Does DealDash Compare?

When thinking about how DealDash compares to other bidding sites, I think you would agree with me that DealDash is the best! I’ll tell you why.

  First off, DealDash is user friendly. DealDash is extremely welcoming of new bidders and explains everything very simply in an up-front way so there are no misunderstandings how the bidding process works. There are even videos explaining how the bidding process works. Check out DealDash ‘s official YouTube page at this link right here to see their videos. Or you could watch the DealDash video that I made explaining everything at this link right here.

  Secondly, DealDash has amazingly responsive and friendly customer service and support. I have emailed them a few times about various issues and questions about DealDash and I have always received an email back within a day, and sometimes I even received a phone call! Another wonderful thing about DealDash customer service is whenever I have interacted with them they have never tried to pressure me to buy a single bid. Other penny auction sites used to call and email me weekly to hard sell into buying bids that I wasn’t interested in buying at that moment. The final straw for me with them was when they told me that if I bought $1,000 worth of bids from them over their phone they would “help” me win an auction. That’s cheating. Which brings me to the next point.

  DealDash is totally transparent and honest with everyone. All bidders the same chance and opportunity to win auctions. There are no “special” bidders, whoever is willing to spend their bids to win the auction will be the winner. There are no “bots” placing fake bids on DealDash to help certain people win. Whoever places the final bid when the clock hits zero is the winner.

  Now that you have heard some of the big differences between DealDash and other bidding sites I’m sure that you want to go check out DealDash! Good luck and happy bidding everyone!

Let’s Talk DealDash Strategy

On DealDash what works for you might not work for others. Let’s look at some different strategies for winning auctions

 

The Planner – The planner is someone who does a lot of research on different DealDash auctions. They might decide on an item, and then go through all of the different options on DealDash and patiently wait for their optimal auction to be put up for bid. Or the planner might find the auction that they want, and then throw in a few bids to just see how the auction goes, see who is bidding, and see what the item goes for in the end…And then wait until the next time the auction comes up for bid to actually get serious and use what they learned on the previous auction that they were merely observing. This is a very smart way to play.

The Determined Bidder – The determined bidder is going to win at all costs. They don’t care who is bidding or how many people are still in the auction. They load up their BidBuddies and occasionally come back to see if they have won or if they need to plug more bids into their BidBuddy. They will do this multiple times until they either win or run out of bids. This strategy wastes money and bids in my opinion. It’s much smarter to put bids into your BidBuddy and then check back on the auction occasionally to make sure that if you win the auction you don’t end up paying more in bids + final fee than it would be to just BIN (Buy It Now) the item when you reach your budget limit. When using the BIN option DealDash will when refund all of the bids you used on that item, and you can try again another day.

The Sporadic Bidder – The sporadic bidder is not a good strategy at all in my opinion. The sporadic bidder looks at the front page of auctions and puts in 5 bids here, 5 bids there, jumping around from auction to auction spending hundreds of bids and then wonders why they don’t win any auctions. Occasionally the sporadic bidder will win an auction, but it’s total luck and good timing. The sporadic bidder usually doesn’t stick around DealDash very long since they don’t tend to win many (or any) auctions.

  Of these three strategies the Planner is definitely the best choice. What strategy do you use? Go ahead and test out the strategies –  check out the auctions and see what you would really like to bid on. See you on DealDash everyone! Good luck and happy bidding.