Have you heard of the expression “If you’re not the lead dog, the scenery never changes”? Just think about, this simple little sentence can be applied to almost every situation in a person’s life and online auctions are no different. In order to come out on top with your prize and get the biggest deal you have to come in late and come out on top. Even though most online auctions have pretty much the same concept to winning there are a number of tools that BigDeal offers their users that other auction tend to stray from.
Everyone knows that having extra information such as auction analytics make it more exciting and easier to gauge your competition to win and BigDeal provides this in their built in panel for their auction members. So make to sign up now before they get rid of this neat little feature. Let’s explore some Bidding tips below.
- Make sure to close all running programs to minimize the chance of a frozen computer. Trust us, you don’t want a lagging computer on your hands when the timer is running out.
- It’s a really great idea to only bid on items that you really want for yourself, items that you’re willing to purchase. This way you can use BigDeal’s Buy-It-Now feature to purchase the item if you don’t win. For example, if you’re bidding on a $100 item and spend $80 bidding, you can buy the item for $20.
- Have plenty of bids handy at your disposal. This is really important especially when the auctions are close.
- Select the auction that you want to bid on and only have that window open to limit confusion and to keep the focus on one product.
- BigDeal’s built analytics are located on the bottom of the page, make sure to keep a close eye on that information to better formulate a winning strategy.
- Study your competition, random bidding isn’t rewarded, be smart.
- Compete for bid packages. Winning bid packs canbe the difference between a loss and a win.
- Make a list of all the winners and keep a close eye on those users to make sure they’re not invading your space. Chances these guys or gals are stocked up on bids.
- Keep track of what day of the week has the lowest competition. In BigDeal’s case we have noticed it was on mondays, go figure
- Stock up on bids and bid 3 seconds before the timer runs out, this gives it enough time incase there is a lag. Most important thing to remember is to use a combination of strategies that is right for you. But if you follow the above steps you should be in good shape.
