you forgot a point here, and a major one in the situation... you mess Commercial and Paid...

Paid scripts are addons, modules, hacks released by vB coders that want to be paid for their job...

Commercial Addons are from companies that expand their capabilities by adding vBulletin as a integrated part, or the opposite...

basically, Commercial stuff is not a single way advertised here... i for one, released a ±userplane addon last month, and nobody was aware of such a tool until i build the small addon for it... that company offer a range of softwares to add features to vBulletin, but are not a single way related to vB.org... they even did not know about the existence of this site the day before i release the addon... so how can they register here and release their addon if they are not informed of the fact ?!

you know, Esvon ?!... one of a big company that produce a range of softwares related to classified and cms... they have a addon to connect to vBulletin users table and share the users database... noone here is informed because Esvon can't advertise... but Esvon are not vB coders, they are a company that provide extra work for vB owners... how these vB owners can be informed of that possibility if Esvon can't advertise on the site where all vBowners go for their addons ?!

this is the way i see this... i don't care about vB coders that want to be paid for their job.. the Services Request forum is there for the ones wanting to be paid... i'm more interested to find more resources in the future... actually, i do my search myself, but 99% of vB owners will not have the time or don't know how to search...

EDIT: and for one, only charge $$ for hacks that will provide profits for the client that request the hack... a simple hack that modify a display or add a functionality don't have to be paid if requested by the community... but i know that a classified system with paid subscriptions would bring profits to the site owner, so i would charge for it... logically... my 2¢ on profits.. lol