Who the hell are we?

Damn Good Deals is an independent Amazon price-tracking site that scores every deal against that product's own price history. It is run by Brian and is not affiliated with Amazon.

Most sites that look like this one are a scraper, a template, and nobody. No name, no address, no human being anywhere on the premises. Just an affiliate tag and a lot of exclamation marks.

So here's the whole thing, plainly.

The person running this

Damn Good Deals is run by Brian, who has spent over 20 years working in digital marketing and e-commerce, and has sold products across effectively every consumer category.

That last part matters more than it sounds, so let me be blunt about why.

I've been on the other side of this. I've built brands, priced products, and sold them online. Which means I know exactly how a "list price" gets decided — and I can tell you it is very often not the price anyone was ever expected to pay. It's a number chosen so that a later number looks generous next to it. That's not a conspiracy theory, it's a Tuesday.

Once you've sat in that meeting, you cannot unsee it anywhere else. Every "70% OFF" starts looking like what it usually is: arithmetic performed on a fictional starting point.

I wrote my first computer program over 30 years ago, which is how the scoring engine behind this site exists at all. And I have three kids under seven, which is how I know exactly what a toy costs in October versus December, and precisely how annoying it is to be lied to about it.

How deals get chosen

Deals are selected automatically by a scoring algorithm that evaluates each product against its own price and sales-rank history; no product is featured in exchange for payment.

There is no editor sitting here picking favourites, and there is nobody from a brand in my inbox with a budget. The pipeline scans, scores, and publishes what clears the bar. Occasionally I pin something by hand — and when I do, it still has to pass every honesty check the automated ones pass. A pin can skip the popularity gates. It cannot skip the fake-price gates. Nothing can.

If you want the full method, it's on the score page, in considerably more detail than most people want.

How this site makes money

Damn Good Deals earns commission through the Amazon Associates programme when a visitor buys a product after clicking a link on the site.

That is the entire business model. There is no paid placement, no sponsored slot, no brand paying to be in the top five. I want to be extremely clear about this because it's the question that actually matters: the commission is the same regardless of which product you buy, so there is no incentive for me to push you toward one over another. The only thing I have to sell is whether the score is worth believing.

The commission is paid by Amazon and does not increase the price you pay.

If the scoring were rigged toward whatever paid best, the site would be worth precisely nothing, and I'd have wasted a lot of evenings.

What this site is not

It's not affiliated with Amazon. It's not a coupon site. It's not a place where every product is a "deal" because everything technically has a percentage next to it.

And it's not comprehensive. We miss things. The scan runs on a rotation and a genuinely good price can come and go between passes. A deal site claiming to catch everything is either lying or not scoring anything.