i received a review, so here goes. keep in mind that i don't write nice things just because i got a freebie or a discount. i've also decided to stop giving numbered grades because i've found that people rarely interpret them the way i intended.
the domain is a solid pr5 with some decent edu linkage. i haven't looked at it in as much detail as if i were evaluating it for purchase, but the links i've looked at have been in place for a while and are likely to stick (a lot are on deep pages on .edus which noone ever link-checks or updates), so i would estimate the chance of it dropping pr to be quite low. to put this in perspective for you, although it isn't the strongest pr5 i've ever seen (hence the lack of superlatives), it is among the strongest i've seen offered as a service (certainly in this price range) and i've reviewed quite a few.
the article doesn't appear to be original, but i can't tell if it's a rewrite or a handspin executed well. in any case, it is unique, perfectly readable, makes sense and got indexed without too much trouble. unless a blog is niche specific and very well executed (at a considerably higher price), it wouldn't survive a manual review anyway, so whether an article is original hardly matters - there's nothing wrong with it that could in practice be detected algorithmically.
threw 700 blog comments from indexed pages at it (a freebie from hkseo/ohb) via 2 urls (the trailing slash and no trailing slash version which 301s) a couple days after it went live and saw movement almost immediately. i used two anchors, keyword1 is a high cpc ($20+), low search volume (~1k) mid-comp (serpiq in the 40s) exact match anchor for my emd. second is lower volume pointed at the www of my domain, which 301s to the non-www variant. kw1 went from 10th page to #14, kw2 wasn't being tracked previously but moved to #11. currently dancing for both, dropping in and out. naturally, cooccurrence does not imply causation; i've seen another emd move up to the first page at about the same time, so results could be partially algo related. however, although i can not categorically exclude that possibility, i consider it to be highly unlikely.
all in all, a fair value on a good domain and a link i wouldn't mind having in tier1 for sites i actually care about. given that i almost never praise a service to the heavens (unless it transforms water into wine), that's high praise indeed.
-p