Buying text BLs - is it a good idea?

I have searched the forum, but couldn't really find a recent answer - is buying BLs from places like b/\cklinks.c0m or t3xt1inks.c0m a good idea? Naturally, buying and selling BLs is frowned upon by G, but having checked my competitors everyone seems to be doing it...

Will I get into any major trouble if I follow this route as a way of diversifying my BLs? t3xt1inks.c0m seems to be just inserting your anchor into PLR articles (as one option, you can have footer or sidebar BLs as well), b/\ckl1nks.c0m does footer and sidebar ones, but directly on the pages with high PR.

I understand that footer or sidebar BLs can be seen as not relevant/spammy (although some are just innocently placed in the blogroll), but if the anchor is inserted into an existing PLR article, I can't really see how this is different from an Article Marketing Robot blast?

Are those services safe to use (as a buyer)? Any help welcome!

Any thoughts anyone bump!

dont try to tell us you searched.

Maybe you should just do a small test to find out...or use one of the services on this forum

It's not dangerous to your rankings, it's just hard to accurately price links out on those places. So many sites with high PR and seemingly relevant content are selling links, but they themselves don't actually rank for shit.

You're better off creating your own backlinks I think.