I have two bikes from bikesdirect and I know others who also have Gravity/Motobecane bikes, and I have not seen any cases where they actually lied about a component. It would probably cost them more money to use a different process for their Moto bikes instead of making them the same way as they do for the name brands due to economy of scale. The factory that makes Motobecane, Kinesis Industries in Taiwan, also makes frames for Diamondback, Trek, Jamis etc. Specialized used to hold a patent on this linkage design up until last year when it expired, that's when Motobecane came out with the HAL5/6 bikes. The Horst link is still technically an 'old' design but it is used on a lot of modern bikes cause it still performs really well. It also has pretty modern geometry if you compare it to a name brand bikes (head angle, chainstay length, etc).
If you want something more modern, look at the HAL5/6 range of bikes which is a knock off of the Horst linkage. It's true that the bike you linked is an 'old' frame design that uses the high single pivot layout and it's not going to pedal well. You have to know what you are looking at with bikesdirect bikes.
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