Agree with @ No1Here
Xrumer's Learning curve is pretty high, You can't run xrumer from home. because Xrumer is bandwidth hog . You need offshore hosting if you are in UK, USA else you are mostly likely to abuse mail from your ISP.
@ No1Here xrumer prices gone up . now 590 USD and p/m 10 USD.
durjoy, thanks for correcting me. I hadn't realized that the price for Xrumer had gone up to almost $600.
Like I said in my previous post, I would rather suggest that you get ScrapeBox and the "soon to be released" ScrapeBoard which can be run directly from your computer. Well, I know for sure that ScrapeBox can be run from your comp and I'm FAIRLY sure that the same will be true for ScrapeBoard.
Between those two programs you'll have just as much functionality for promoting your sites as you would with Xrumer except you'll spend a whole lot less money.
Xrumer is a fantastic piece of software that is very powerful. However, unless you're planning to sell Xrumer blasts to other Black Hatters or Webmasters it would be complete overkill. Just purchase a $10 Xrumer blast from any number of folks here on BHW and save yourself all the headache.
The only other reason, that I can think of, for purchasing Xrumer is if you're either working a 24/7 "boiler-room" type of Spam the Internet into submission type of operation or your company is quite sizable and you need Xrumer to drive traffic to new or updated sections of the site or even it's satellite or subsidiary group of websites.
I'm sure others may have other examples of when Xrumer is the appropriate software choice but those are the only two I could think of.
If you're just doing marketing for yourself, and maybe some friends, then the ScrapeBox+ScrapeBoard combination will give you all the muscle you need or are likely to need for the foreseeable future.
Put it this way, Xrumer is the industrial, heavy duty piece of equipment while ScrapeBox/ScrapeBoard are "prosumer" versions of Xrumer that are priced for us mortals to afford.
Hope this helps.