Vbulletin skins?

[roxics]

So which site is it going to be?

In my travels of vb sites I have ran across a few that are selling vb skins. Most of the time though they are only advertising one skin for sale and saying there will be more in the future.

I'm more concerned about finding all the places that are selling these skins. Because as it is right now there is no one large place to go and see a large cateloge of vb skins available.

Second everyone wants to sell their skin. What's the deal with that?

Doesn't anyone want to promote free skins?

I've been looking at the phpbb site and they have a nice little demo showing a bunch of free skins.

http://www.phpbb.com/styles/styles_demo/

Now granted the few skins I've seen availabe for vb are very nice as well. (ravio.com, vbskins.com, teamphotoshop.com) But so are some of these. Not to mention the standard subsilver skin alone is beautiful.

Lately I seem to be coming across several people that want to switch to new forum software. many of whom aren't very good a graphic design. I've been trying to convince people to go with vb over other free software. I tell them wonderful things like Vbulletin.org has 1000 free hacks. Vbulletintemplates has great tips on how to custtomize your vb. Unfortunately when it comes to the skin issue though I have to tell them "well there are a few skins available if you can find them and when you do they are usually $30 bucks or so."

To be honest when I first switched from a free board to vb I figured vbulletin.org had hundreds of free skins waiting behind those password protected forums. I was suprised to find that I couldn't get my hands on one single free skin.

But I am glad to see some skining sites seem to be popping up. The question is more about, which will be the ultimate place to get your skins in the near future? Will any offer free versions? Will there ever be a place like ibskins.com