I've been contacted by a guy who offered me links off an EDU pages. The site is legit, and the guy seems serious, I just think that the price is too much (although I must admit that I have no experience with buying links so I don't really know the market). Are you currently renting links? How much will you pay for a link off an EDU page (monthly basis)? How much will you pay for a hosted pre-sale page on an EDU domain (monthly basis)? Any comments are much appreciated.
I would refuse to pay more for an .edu link than for a normal text link, since all the talk about Google giving edu links more value than other TLD links are just rumors anyways. The simple reason .edu links are worth more in many cases is that those .edu pages are often of high quality and have a high PR.
i would not pay any extra money, it is only rumours about .edu/.gov links having more weight (authority) in google etc.