You just told the world that this will be a purchased link. Not a good idea. I am confident that Google discounts paid links, or will in the future. Having said that, $1,000 is a very low price.

Make sure he doesn't have a PR9 because he participated in some black hat stuff. For example, I recently picked up a client with 4 IBL from PR3 sites and he has a PR6. Alarm bells are going off in my head; I want to know where this PR6 came from before I link to this client.

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