Asking for links - you want how much???

And out of how many, I wonder would post those links where they are supposed to be added, and nofollowed them as well?

Link buying is still going on, on the other side, i see a lot of posts where members ask for links (at a good price, of course), or even to exchange (a little off topic).

Link buying is not good for the website promotion. You have to generate natural back links on websites to increase number of visitors so that PR may be increase also on search engines.

Definitely not, but it shows it goes on and the industry is alive and well

i'm always looking to exchange links but not on especially created link pages but directly on the webpage with one of my web pages but find that too many people put it on a special remote link page so stopped exchanging links as so few are willing to put onto their web pages and i had put their links on different pages but never found my link as it was on a remote link page with hundreds and thousands of other links

This is the problem, and is the old classic link exchange model, where we all had "links" pages or resources pages.

Personally with my non professional SEO hat on, I'd say link exchanging is pretty much pointless these days, and there are better ways of doing it. Naturally via Decent content, news, articles, social media etc

I tend to like guest blogging, so i am open to any opportunity, but we`d rather pay only for a website, which gets many targeted visits, not for a banner at a college-student blog.