Link Leads Blog · September 3, 2026
Most of what Link Leads sells is aged data with no consent claim attached. One product line breaks that pattern — the consumer actually filled out a form. Here's exactly what that opt-in does and doesn't cover, what the two batches cost, and what still needs a scrub before you dial.
The SMS and email pools that make up most of the Link Leads catalog are aged consumer data: demographic and contact records that never carried a consent claim in the first place, priced as bulk data and sold with the DNC-scrub responsibility resting entirely on the buyer. The opted-in health leads are the one line that breaks that pattern. Every record started as a real person filling out a health-insurance inquiry form with a third-party source, and the date they did it is stamped on the record.
Read the qualifier exactly as written, because it's doing real work: that consent was given to whoever collected the lead — not to Link Leads, and not to you as the buyer — and consent ages. A form filled out in April 2025 doesn't carry the same weight in September 2026 that it did the week it was submitted. Practically, that means an opted-in record still isn't a green light to auto-dial, and it still isn't DNC-scrubbed. Both of those get their own section below.
Both batches carry a phone number and an email address on every record — the only lines in the catalog that carry both. That's also why the free sample masks both columns instead of one: an unmasked sample of this line would just be 100 fully contactable leads for nothing.
The opt-in date range shown for each batch is pulled straight from the real minimum and maximum dates in the file — trimmed to the 1st–99th percentile so one mistyped date can't make a batch look fresher than it is — not a hand-typed number someone updates when they remember to. Drop a newer export in and the range updates itself. Worth knowing if you're comparing this line against a vendor who just prints "fresh leads" on the page: ask what the freshness claim is actually computed from.
The FCC treats AI-voice outbound calling as an artificial/prerecorded-voice robocall, which requires prior express written consent — a higher bar than a health-form opt-in given to a third party months or a year ago. That's exactly why Link Leads' own AI voice agent add-on won't build an outbound campaign without the buyer certifying that consent directly, and aged or third-party-collected data doesn't qualify — the opted-in health batches included. Manual dialing sits under a different, lower TCPA bar than AI-voice robocalling, but where exactly that line sits for a specific list and script is a question for your own counsel, not a claim this post or the product page makes for you.
Neither health batch is scrubbed against the National or State Do-Not-Call registries — the same rule that applies to every other list Link Leads sells applies here too, opt-in or not. Run either file through a DNC and phone-type check before it hits a dialer. Landline Remover (an affiliate link — we may earn a commission if you sign up) strips landlines and DNC-registered numbers from a CSV in one pass, and it matters more on this line than on the $0.012 aged pool: at $1–$5 a lead, a record you can't legally call is a more expensive record to waste. The full walkthrough is in how to DNC scrub an aged lead list.
The recent batch is the smaller, pricier, higher-intent pull — no age filter, 29 states, capped at 1,000 leads a buy, opted in the most recently of anything in the catalog. It fits an agent who wants a short, focused list to work hard rather than a volume campaign. The aged batch is the deeper pool: 30 states, an age field you can filter by (useful if you're pairing it with an age-targeted vertical like mortgage protection or term life), and a price that drops as the order grows. Order 1,000 from the aged batch and the discount brings it to $975; order the full 5,000 and it's $4,375 instead of $5,000. At that volume it's still more than the $0.012 aged SMS pool per lead, but it's the only line in the catalog carrying an actual form opt-in and an email address alongside the phone number.
This post explains what the product page and the order confirmation already state — it isn't legal advice. TCPA, CAN-SPAM, and state-level telemarketing rules are specific to your state, your channel, and your script; confirm your dialing and texting plan with counsel before you scale a campaign on either batch.
Pull a free 100-row sample to see exactly what's on a record before you commit — no card, no signup. Both health batches sit inside the same order builder once you're logged in, on their own tab, separate from the SMS and email pickers.