When Do Swoopo Bids Expire?

I received this email from a 5-day Swoopo Manual Course reader named Jason today:

What the deal with the free bids?  I see that they expire, but how can you use them instead of the paid bids so that I use them first and don’t risk losing them?

Here was my reply:

Jason,

Great question…FreeBids were a confusing subject for me when I first started in on Swoopo. Here’s how they work:

If you win FreeBids in a Swoopo auction, these will never expire. So these bids just get dumped into your general bid pool. Because they don’t expire, it really doesn’t matter whether or not they’re used first.

If you receive FreeBids from a Swoopo promotion, these typically expire in a week. When you bid on an auction, these expiring bids will be used first so you can be sure to get the most out of your FreeBids.

Thanks for the email,

- Matthew