How much you spend on "buying link"?

Well......I buying or selleing links are wastage of time and money as it is against google webmaster guidelines however they increase or divert traffic to a site but as soon google detect it, site will be penalised so, i just avoid........

Actually I didn't spend money just for a link there are lots of way to gain quality link with out spending any amount of money...If you have a good site which contain good contents and has a better PR, you will gain quality BL...For the new site just continue doing proper link building and post quality contents and soon you will get what you want...

Regarding to penalty for those who sell links, I am quite confused because there are lots of paid directories there scattered around the net and they are all exist until now...they are not getting banned or penalized either...