A 34 DA listing at $80 is the price of an experiment: if the article earns citations, you have found a channel; if not, you have lost one invoice.
There is a second job these placements do that is worth naming: they make a young or thin profile look normal. A domain that acquires 34-level links from a spread of ordinary publications, in drips, over months, looks like a business that has been around. A domain that acquires forty links from aggressive networks in a fortnight looks like a campaign, and it is the pattern rather than the individual link that gets noticed.
Within the General section of the index — 1,576 listings, 39 median DA, 5k median traffic, $70 median price — this placement is 14% above the median on cost and about 5.6× the index median on audience. Listings in that section range from $30 at the cheap end, so the question is not whether $80 is high for a link, but whether it is high for this one.
Where buzzhatch.co.uk is not a topical match for your market, buy it for that plausibility and for whatever brand exposure comes free, and put your exact-match anchors on the sites that genuinely cover your subject. That one discipline is the difference between a general guest post strengthening a profile and the same link making it look synthetic.
The link attribute on this property is recorded as stated at order: some sections follow, some do not. We check the specific URL before you commit, and if the page turns out to be nofollowed we tell you before invoicing.