what "gems" are you talking about? it doesn't matter whether they come from own scraped list or buy list, soon they will be spammed to death. that's the nature of this list. sure anyone can try to build their own lists, spent time, money and resources, but do not ever think that your own scraped list will be exclusive to you, some powerhouse will pick them sooner or later, then they will be spammed to death. personally I'm not too keen in building my own list which soon to be spammed to death. AND auto approve "gems" are unicorns. that's my point. I can understand your concern but there's always different equally important perspective such as the list, the whole of them, not just the some "gems", is still useful and for me, even needed more than ever but for totally different purposes and treatments (like since we'd better indexing those spammy backlinks by ourselves these days, etc). as long as we clearly understand that the list is not the mojo of anything anymore, no one will feel disheartened by whatever reasons. that is my point. since you're talking about gems, I suggest anyone to watch one of loopline video about ScrapeBox manual posting, that is A GEM. we only automate the gems identiying process. gems don't come easy, some lesser quality gems preseved by Recaptcha or the hard ones, but the real gems are only preserved by human approvals, just embrace that old facts. anyone should stop spending money if they do not know the best use of what they're buying. there are no auto approve gems. with clever and careful set up you still can rank with such lists but only for lesser target and or with additional set up for example, T1 is the new money site, T2 is the new T1 and so on, everything else can be pretty much the same, the usual blasting away. google is a biatch, but that's nothing new.