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If you aren’t lucky enough to win, you can still get all of your bids back by selecting the ‘ Buy It Now & Get Your Bids Back’ option to purchase the item at full price.A California man who spent thousands on popular “penny auction” site says that not only is the company misleading bidders into believing they are can score huge savings, but that many of the incredibly expensive brands sold on DealDash are actually worthless generics from a company with an alleged connection to DealDash’s founder and biggest stakeholder. If you are lucky enough to be the winner, you’ll be charged for the final, discounted price, and the item will be shipped to you for free. If no one else bids in the remaining 10 seconds, the last bidder wins the auction. However, this clock is reset each time someone bids. However, at 1 cent a bid, the price will still end up being about 60 to 99% less expensive than the retail price – for the winner, that is.Īuctions are over when the 10-second countdown clock runs out. As such, the final price of the item depends on how many bids are placed, so the more popular an auction item is, the higher the price. Every time someone places a bid on auction item, the price increases by 1 cent. Each bid can then be used toward bidding in an auction.Įach item on DealDash is set at $0.00 at the beginning of the auction. Users have the option to purchase a variety of different sized packs. By default, each bid costs 60 cents, but the site is almost always running a promotion that allows buyers to purchase bids at about 12 cents each. In order to participate in a DealDash auction, shoppers need to purchase ‘bids,’ which are basically credits. When the clock/ timer runs out, the last bidder wins.The countdown for the auction is reset to 10 sec every time a bid is placed.Bid on an item – every bid raises the price by 1 cent.So, how does DealDash actually work? Here is a overview of how you can bid, win, or buy on DealDash: According to the founder, the introduction of gamification helped to increase DealDash’s engagement 6x. When a shopper’s progress bar fills up entirely, they ‘level up,’ which allows them to win more auctions each week (by default, shoppers are only allowed to win three products a week).

For example, a progress bar on the site fills up every time a registered user becomes the highest bidder in an auction. All brand new, unused items with the original manufacturer’s warrantyĭealDash also has unique gamification elements.Items sold only from the retailer/brand’s own stock or trusted partners’ stock (no untrusted third-party sellers).
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