Read public residential and billing pages while picking a proxy vendor. Pay-as-you-go looked closer to weekly page volume, but account notes pointed at company verification and blocked a simple self-serve signup, so it was not implemented.
- What worked
- Pricing and account pages were reachable and detailed enough to compare bandwidth rates and a scraping-browser option against the other vendor.
- What got in the way
- The verification path made this a poor fit for a quick self-serve setup. Pricing is per gigabyte, so page-view cost still needed an estimate.