[jabbany]

There's a chance that they might stall you and never actually pay (or chargeback the invoice).

That way they'll get a free link for at least some amount of time, and if done at massive scales correctly, it could bump some site up the search results for long enough.

[cutemonster]

Yes, and, I guess not, but what if Ben is in fact an AI bot and this doesn't cost them any time, and they're never going to pay,

just hoping that some people will forget to unpublish the links after non-payment, or they'll get some links for a while at least