pdf: No not going to sell mfgrs ads for reviews themselves. Instead think of it like a NASCAR car. You pay money for a piece of the Procooling testbed, and in return there's a page that details the full testing setup and methods with a list of contributors (like the stickers on the cars). The danger here is if some smaller company doesn't donate and has a poor review of their product, they may well blame bias on my part rather than their own R&D.
As far as cost goes it's pretty dependent upon the whims of ebay. I would be very surprised if the DPT setup and needed gear for the die simulator cost less than $700US by the time it was all calibrated and running. On the automation the sky's the limit