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I stand corrected.  Thanks "Agents of Value"

I would assume their links are nofollow, but if the rep tells you otherwise.

Honeslty, i'd spent the $750 elsewhere.

Thank you for your kind replies vzPRO and Andrea!

I actually just received a reply from the "SEO" company.  They're denying that they created those links.  I don't believe them.  Besides them, there's no reason why anybody else would make those links.

I guess I have my hands full.

Thanks again.

Hello folks!

Name is Mike, i'd like to ask some of you your opinion on this matter.

My company hired an SEO company (reputable company in LA) to get our rankings where we want them to be.  They've been somewhat successful, we were actually quite happy with their performance.  I do mostly print marketing and graphic design for my company, I do manage our website and online store.  As a cost saving measure we've decided to cut their service (expensive) and the SEO is now brought in-house - that means its my responsibility now.  By no means am I a complete newbie, I pretty much know what I need to do in order to maintain our rankings and improve as well.  And with the knowledgebase here at SEOMOZ i should be fine (i hope).

Thing is that I have asked our previous SEO company to supply a list of all inbound links they created.  They've been silent, no response.  Am I asking for too much??  I ran some of my links through OpenSite Explorer (great tool by the way) and found tons of incoming links using black hat tactics.  I don't see how anybody could benefit making these links but the SEO company who we recently got rid of.  I am quite certain they are responsible for these links.  Black hat tactics such as keyword stuffing and anchor links (with very small font) on the footer of some random website.  Kinda upsets me that we paid so much money for this type of crap.  They never offered any advise with respect to on-site SEO which I am now finding out I have a lot of on-site optimizing thank to SEOMOZ.

I don't know if its such a big deal or if am simply overreacting.  I am concerned of my company's site getting penalized by the search engines and making my job as in-house SEO much more dificult.

Is this a big deal? Should I ignore it and begin building my own quality links and content?

Thanks