Ordered 1000 directory links. Complained about how long it was taking, they bumped it up to 1700. Got the 'report' and was shocked. Most of the URLs were expired domains, redirects, duplicate sites with only logo changes. The majority of the rest that worked were spammy, garbage sites. There were even a dozen or so porn/sex sites in there.
This kind of back-linking to absolute rubbish sites is not a very smart way to build rankings. Dont be duped by Websquash advertising; '1000 hand picked directories' actually means '1000 crap urls we dredged up from the internet basement'.