[metalguy639]

Sorry to be late to the party but there are other things that you will need to consider eventually and think about. If you are not able to install it yourself you may eventually want to install some of the hacks on here once you buy the license, and you may want to have a custom skin down the road. All these things cost money. There are plenty of people who do these things for board owners for a fee. Its great to get it all started for the amount you have but keep in mind that will not be the only money you pay out for the forum if you do not plan on learning stuff yourself or you can't. vBulletin comes out of the box with just a default skin, default settings, and a default set up. There are most likely some things that you have seen on another forum and thought that is really a cool feature I like it. Do not expect it to come right out of the box. In most cases its an add-on or a hack that was installed to enhance the board. If you are not particularly thrilled with the default skin there are free skins and there are skins that you can purchase from other sites. There are also custom skins and those can cost big bucks. So just keep in mind that this is an investment of sorts and something that you will be pouring money into. You will not just pay the initial amount and then everything is dandy and the sun comes out.