Robert_Charlton - 8:50 pm on Jun 7, 2012 (gmt 0)

He is claiming he did this for another client...and that client got de-indexed completely.

If that client relied 100% on paid links, I could see how that might happen.

You have to assess your own situation. Were these links the unfortunate byproduct of a hiring a bad link builder sometime in the history of an otherwise meritorious site, or was this your modus operandi? If all or most of your links are bought, your link builder could well be right.