DealDash 411 - Something's afoot.....

Something fishy is going on again....we saw it once with Cryleew, but cryleew straightened herself out and managed to win a few things. Rigs had taken over the crazy honors, but rigs has kept his head down and has been watching and learning. But now I am concerned now about deepsea71.
Deepsea71 just joined on 7/4, and i can't tell if something is fishy, or deepsea71 is just a full Out of Control Newbie. 
Or possibly an Overconfident Newbie, high off the $10 gift card wins.
Or possibly 71 and grandson johnny set him up on dealdash to kill some time.
Or possibly a Time Hoarder.
Or possibly just a Sore Loser
It is just not clear. Here is why:

I just watched the last 60 bid auction, and tallied the # of bids people used. I did this a) thinking it would be a shorter auction  b) to see if my Newbie Math Moment was justified.

deepsea1 started from the beginning of the auction and Strong-Armed all people bidding against him. he ousted a good 10 people and then settled into a battle against bept9987's bid buddy. Then thisisveryeasy waited a bit and set a bid buddy against deepsea71.

here is where the world turns upside down -
bept9987 used approx. 48 bids before she bailed (which worked out well, because she scored the 80 bid auction minutes later using only 10 bids).
thisisveryeasy  used approx. 56 bids before bailing out. (i use approx. for these numbers because though i was tallying, when the rapid fire moments come it is hard to catch them all).
gbdavis ended up winning by Silent Stalking and setting his bid buddy late in the auction, using only 14 bids to win.
BUT deepsea71 USED A TOTAL OF 118 BIDS TRYING TO WIN THE 60!! At first it seems like maybe he lost count, or really was just a Sore Loser. but almost doubling his loss? That just seemed way out of hand...it was painful to watch. Especially because  in the middle of it, he started in on the P.F. Chang's gift card auction, and lost that one too.

See, i knew someone out there needed to read my Newbie Math Moment. I thought that math lesson was easily realized, but maybe it's not....maybe we'll see you around deepsea71 if you stock up on more bids to burn.

DealDash 411 - Morning Recap - The Good News and The Bad News

Bad News - joeddot scooped up some nice items at a low auction price (that's bad news for us, good news for him). $.07 for 40 bids? It's a steal.
Good News - Joe hit his under $200 limit of 6, so hopefully he'll be enjoying the weekend. We'll see when he shows up again (approx), and see when his limit resets. (So, yes joe, you are right. This isn't good news for you. We'll catch you later).

Some usual names were on the win list:
FoolishMan
drummerboy
Iwin_or_upay
manzanita
pennywiser
heavyhitter

BabyFidgette will be taking us all out to P.F. Chang's this weekend which is awesome because i haven't been there for awhile. Order me some Crab Wontons - I'll meet you there.
Cryleew would also come and video the wonderful dinner, but she already committed her camcorder to joeddot who wants to document his hedge trimming.

MyPreciouS showed up early a.m. to score a fondue set for Frodo and the guys

bidingaddict beat out 1happydog for a Home Depot Gift Card and 40 bids (i think if it had been a PETCO card, results may have been different..."hit the button! keep hitting the button!" Obviously a family is working the mouse for the dog. Dogs can't use a mouse, duh). BidingAddict, you won fair and square $.42...but i'm a sucker and i feel bad for 1happydog. Now he is 1saddog, and dogs aren't supposed to be sad. I'm sure he'll eat some poop and be 1happydog again. Maybe someone should have a UserName of supercutepuppy....then everyone says "Awwwwwwww" and thinks warm and happy thoughts of puppies and ice cream and you don't want to take down the super cute little DealDash puppy. Maybe Owen's Monkey would, but that's just the survival instinct.

Dealdash 411: CURRENT UPDATE

rigs - Out of Control Newbie...joined today and is bidding in almost every auction. he doesn't know what he is doing! We need to let him burn out....he is waaay too excited. It's like Cryleew all over again. But i think Cryleew has figured out some strategy now, so we'll take her out of caps and give rigs the honor being the premiere Out of Control Newbie.
pennywiser popped up early on the Presario Notebook, so he is most likely Silently Stalking. Pennywiser is good - watch it.
BabyFidgette is going for the Chromebook - remember, BabyFidgette recently won 600 bids. Assumes she stocked up during yesterday's deal, and you have to play thinking she has 1350 bids!

DealDash 411: THE RANKINGS - June 26 - June 29th

Normally, DD411 will put a full weeks of game play to calculate out the weekly rankings...so here is a snapshot of where we are so far this week since SUNDAY...
Totals are based upon retail price of each auction won.

1)  Ratpack - 2 items, $1024.99
2)  GRANDMAGIN - 1 item  $999.75
     OKKAMS - 1 item $999.75
3)  Sandbagger -3 items $976.70
4)  MORETOCOME - 4 items $789.85
5)  IWILLBANKRUPTU - 3 items $778.7
6)  Biddin2Win - $732.75
7)  gjsquezebox - 1 item $699
8)  iknowican - 5 items $619
9)  AlwaysBiding - 1 item $599.99
10)  Cryleew - 2 items $565.75

DealDash 411: Morning Recap + NEW STRATEGY TOOL!

Cryleew - you must get on here and tell us what happened! i didn't see your name on anything last night...we need to hear from you! I'll put you in lower case letters, I promise! You need to read some tips, hints and strategies at the bottom of this blog! Please!

mclass1 took the Ipad - and a Super Mario Kart Bundle - This player scored! mclass1 is on the radar and could possibly be added to the watch list soon...

Last night our Nightcrawlers come out...some of our Oldies who win at night:
pennywiser
punxsyphil
krisoma

If you plan to pull an all-nighter, pay attention to when you are against a Nightcrawler - you may need to adjust your strategy

Piggy1Bird looks like she played all night too, but she'll be busy today eating Slim Jims and Playing their new Lego Wii game...At this point DD411 doesn't think Piggy1Bird is a Nightcrawler to be too worried about. In fact i wouldn't give her Nightcrawler status yet.

THE STRATEGY TOOL that DD411 is NOW offering, is a weekly ranking of players based on the amount of $$$ worth of prizes they won. You can see who is going for the big items and who may be a flipper. All to help you figure out your best move against them! And if someone surpassed the rest, I'll give them Gold Star of the Week award. Maybe  I will re-name that. That's 5th grade teacher talk.

DealDash411 tips, hints strategy update

Now That's What i Call Country - Clearly a winning item at $.04. Please tell us you Flipped it, Ratpack.

Ok - Looks like some of the usual suspects are going to be playing tonight. SuperSonicsFan has been bidding all day, so watch out for him. MOUNTAINMAN is a force to be dealt with...watch bidding against him...

And that giraffe bag is worth staying up for a few more hours...

NOW it is your turn to comment and keep all those people up to date on DealDash...i'll be back in the morning with  your recap...we'll see who wins the Ipad...Cryleew my buddy is in on it, and a bird lady person.

Deal Dash 411 must sleep now. Signing off. Win Big. I'll check it all out in the morning

DealDash 411: Watch List Add - Something is Fishy with Cryleew

Anybody know who this Cryleew nonsense person is?? Signed up 6/16, and has won only two big items...a netbook at $23 and a Samsung Tabloid...is she flipping these items? did she buy 1000 bids or something? She has been Bid Buddy-ing almost all the auctions today, and DD411 finds it hard to believe she can sustain this pace...We're calling Something Fishy on Cryleew.....Either something isn't quite right here, or we have to classify Cryleew as OUT OF CONTROL NEWBIE...never trust anyone who buys 1000s of bids on DealDash. They are screwy in the head....
She is officially added to the Watch List. DD411 doesn't trust her as far as we can throw her. Which is nowhere because she lives in South Carolina.