It all depends on what you want to have done. If it's already a pre done mod it will come cheap but if you wish to have a custom mod that only you have it comes much more expensive.Most of the time you have to work with the dev as not everything you could want would have the same price.

Thanks Nexialis, but they are probably quite capable of reading the forum list and seeing that for themself.

Higher than minimum wage, unless you look to India.

If you want something like Christian Forums done for you, expect to pay thousands. Personally, I think that forum is modded terribly. Atheism FTW! :p

Anyway, if you must have your board modded, be sure to select a person with advanced PHP, XHTML, CSS, AJAX, and vB knowledge.
Also, I must give you important advice:
Do not do this unless you have serious money to through around.
If you can't do most modding yourself, you'll constantly need to pay others to maintain, upgrade, secure etc your board.
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I am wanting to buy and use VB. However I am nervous about what has been said about needing serious money to make modifications. Is it not built into the interface for most needed modifications?
Just what are the modifications that will cost so much to have done?
I am getting freaked out now.
I want a forum that works well and is fast and simple to use. I don't want to be a programmer.

a lot of hacks are already available for free... hundreds i can say... most small modifications are free and are quickly installed even if you know nothing of vBulletin or coding...

when you come with specific requests of large tools, sure you can have to pay, but it goes with the job you require...

Oh goodness, don't let this thread be the deciding factor in whether you purchase vB or not. They're talking about extras.

Most other forum software you have to modify to death to get the same functionality that vBulletin comes with right out of the box. What they're talking about here is just extra bells 'n' whistles modifications. ;)

I agree, vbulletin is really easy to use and gives you alot of options that are built in that you have to mod on other forums to get. However, the best thing about vbulletin boards are that vbulletin.org supplies so many "extras" that can just be plugged in due the product manager by uploading 1 file and voila, you are practically done.

Anyways to get back on topic, Ill be a sheep and say what everyone else is saying. It depends on what you want to get done and how big of a task it is. With those factors in mind, that's when you should guesstimate how much YOU are willing to pay to get such a modification.

Christian forums just changed the template. There a few mods here that can make certain things on there appear the way they do.

Mostly those are just template edits. For vbulletin you can look around and get some templates. You can also hire someone to do a template for you, depending again it could run a few hundred dollars and up.