I never bought such a lot but I can tell you a few things :
- Most of them will be common nummus, maybe folles, from 4th century, since it represents a huge part of the Roman coins that were ever struck in copper or bronze. Nonetheless, you can still find some good surprises I guess.
- Don't expect too good quality. When a seller grabs a lot of uncleaned coins, he often picks up what he thinks interesting for its good grade and worth solely selling to clean it by himself, and sells what's left in lot such at these. Sometimes a third of the coins in uncleaned lots are not fully identifiable.
- About the question if it's worth or not, it depends on what you want. Some people prefer buying a single pre-cleaned coin for 15$, some people prefer buying uncleaned lot, clean the coins and discover them, even if they know it won't be as good quality as the coin they would have bought for 15$. Two different approaches of collecting roman coins I'd say. If you're more like the second one, such lots are good.
- Coin cleaning could be a nice and funny "hobby", to spend time while doing something interesting and discover coins that have been hidden for centuries.
I'd say the price they are asking is fair. It makes about 1€ a coin including shipping.
Olive oil is a good method to remove the biggest part of the dirt I think. I did it once, it takes time but results are OK, moreover it is easy and cheap. Let the coin about 1 month in the oil. Then you have to do the rest with your hands if you don't want to wait ages. But do not force with your brush or whatever you use, or it will damage the coin.
Here are a few tips :
http://romancoin.info/complete_guide_to_uncleaned_ancient_coins.htm