With so much talk about relevant backlinks or IBLs coming into your site as helping your search engine ranks do you find yourself buying more links now and days rather than trying to get the links?

And remember some people have niches where it is very hard to get those backlinks so paying for them is a much better option.

And do you think this is SEO ethical?

I personally do not. I am afriad Google knows more about the links I buy than I do. I think it is becoming less and less of a good SEO move.

Nope, I just do link exchanges - no link buying here.

Same here, but even with that I'm really careful, as there are so many seo spammers out there using cheap software to spam people with link requests