Call a spade a spade, this site as great, but it has been taken over by a group of friends who vote for each others deals. Some are good, some are lame, but the same people keep winning. Where really good deals aren't getting voted on because the person posting isn't part of the click. It's unfortunate, but collusion can sour some people on sites. I hope it doesn't happen here, but by reading some of the post, it already has.
Explanation 1: I place a subliminal message in the image that I used, which states "vote here".
Explanation 2: I hacked the system so that Merlin's deal post only shows up when Merlin is actually logged on. (Very clever I think.)
Explanation 3: I'm actually masquerading as eight different users. It has not been easy, but thats what talent is made of. (I particularly proud of my idea to use all-caps for one of the persona.)
There, now that the silly explanations are out of the way...
There could be many reasons Merlin, but I'll leave it to you and other users to suggest what some of them might be. Personally though, I'm betting if the roles were reversed you would have no problems with the scenario.