Hello HugeMoney,
ScrapeBox is not free and neither is xrumer. Since ScrapeBox is only $47 to BHW members ($97 to the rest of the world) the general consensus has been to just buy it. Also, xrumer is $540 one-time payment and no monthly charge for the first three months. After 3 months its $10/month. As xrumer is very powerful and complex no one has tried to duplicate it totally, at least I haven't found anything like it.
Again, the general consensus has been to buy xrumer. You can be assured that at the very least you definitely want xrumer in your toolkit. In fact, I think you could say that if you could only ever get one tool it should probably be xrumer.
Here are some links below to grab it up:
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http://www.botmasternet.com/product15730/
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OK, I also found the link for BHW members to get the discount to Scrapebox:
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http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackhat-seo/buy-sell-trade/129096-scrapebox-ultimate-serp-scraper-auto-blog-commenter-prstorm-mode.html
It looks like sweetfunny has raised the prices for BHW members. It used to be $47 but now when I check the link it is $57. In my opinion it is still worth the money. Even at $97 it is still an extremely powerful tool and worth the price. I
Huh, it must have just bumped up to $57. I remember checking a little over a week ago and it was still $47. Anyways if you have the money for both get both. If you have the money for xrumer get that first. If you don't have the money for xrumer don't buy ScrapeBox.
Save up for xrumer and once it has started making you money invest into other tolls like ScrapeBox and bookmarking demon (I can not vouch for BMD both those I trust have). There are definitely others worth getting but xrumer is a must have.
The learning curve is very high for xrumer and it will take you some time master it. Better to just dive into it as soon as you can. Well, I hope this helps.
Kind Regards,
killxp
P.S. Would not let me edit my original post. Not cool.