[EasyTarget]

Originally Posted by Loukrhtia

Personally I have noticed a significant difference in the quality and the support of paid hacks.
There are hacks out there that are of very good quality and free but they are a minority. Most free hacks are significantly worse than paid ones, and that is quite logical.

Maybe I just notice it more when I pay money for something and it sucks or support for it sucks and if I get something for free and it sucks and/or support sucks it doesn't make much of a difference to me.

And my point wasn't that money makes no difference, only that sometimes it doesn't matter if someone is getting paid to work, if they're not good at their job or they have poor work ethic then its likely their product will reflect that.
__________________________________________________ ____________

Begin new post (merged)
Looks like vbulletinservices.com will just be another place for people to advertise their hacks. I must say as a consumer I'm more interested in a .org type site with paid hacks.

I think that would stop coders from using one site to advertise something then having copy hacks from other coders at their personal site. If its all taken care of on one site you can use the professional type courtesy you see here between a lot of coders by not reproducing many hacks, giving credit to shared/inspired work, etc.

Maybe livewire can incorporate something like this into his vbhackers.com site?
Make some paypal mod that in order to download the hack you have to pay first or something. Maybe a royalty share where the site gets a small % of each sale, or a 1 time fee for releasing hacks there (or per hack?)

I also think it'd be good to have the site be run/owned by non vb staff. Or maybe have some on the staff but make the head be someone independent. (I don't really know why I think it'd be good actually, but maybe to avoid any conflict of interests or accusations)

anyways, that's my 2 cents.