Buying links based on PR

[temi]

i have received some "special offer" to buy links on some PR7 pages in the past few weeks, nothing unusual about this, I get such offers all the time. The unusual part of the offer is the prepayment for 6 months or 1 year the vendor was demanding. Neither of the vendors want a monthly subscription payment.
Why I will not be rushing to accept this offer is the fact that the pricing of the link is based on PageRank rather than the traffic this site could deliver.
From experience you do not get a refund or discount when this sites lose their PR which is exactly what happened to a link I bough two months ago, it was PR6 at the last PR update its gone down to PR4.

 

[! Ask !]

Could be worth the risk if the price is low.

 

[maxseo]

how much are we talking for the pr7 link and how many OBL's. Make sure that it's not a sitewide link. I lost my faith in those

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[temi]

Could be worth the risk if the price is low.

Its $500 for 6 months and $1,000 for 1 year, I will not call that low. There some link vendors I have deal with for year, I do trust such people as you know what they are capable of.

 

[temi]

Make sure that it's not a sitewide link. I lost my faith in those
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Did you have a bad experince with site wide links ?

 

[! Ask !]

My experience with sitewides they are good for PR increase but not much better than homepage only for SERP.

 

[temi]

I think sitewide is also potentially dangerous if you use them too much, you may be sandboxed