I'm nowhere near an expert to make a judgement on whether Dan is a tzaddik or a bum. I suspect he's just a guy like the rest of us, trying to make a living, support his family, and enjoy himself every now and then. But just from my own experience I can say that I will usually just skip any DDMS post that has amaZon or eBay or any other of these "deals". I will read things like credit card write ups, price mistake and I just got the WSJ for 40 weeks. Not saying he shouldn't wrote about the "deals" their just not very effective.