I just wanted to provide these wonderful Pay Per Link sites, since the spammer who keeps cross-posting drivel to the various forums keeps forgetting the link:
I think it costs somewhere between $8,000-$10,000 a month because of the high PageRank.
Ahhh, the high page rank. That explains it. Most of those web sites have been around since before the internet. Hell, they had the NY Times back in the 1800s, and I hear Google likes old domains, too.
Forrest you nailed. They cost so much because they have been around so far. They're not only out of the sandbox, but they're even out of the park itself.
By the way Adam you crack me up. I don't know which is funnier, your original post and the reason you started the thread or some of the responses. I guess it's a combination of the two.