vBulletin 4 - What's the deal with this!?

[ludachris]

Originally Posted by cosy

the only problem is for ppl that got vblog money spend for nothing
who got vblog should have a discount

That's my biggest gripe. I've paid for owned licenses for both vb and vb blog (a few of them actually since I own several sites) and will now have to pay almost as much for an upgrade for each of my sites as I did for the owned licenses. That's extremely expensive. And as MrEyes said above, I have 2 weeks to make the purchase or I'll have to pay almost double the cost of my original owned license fees - wow.

vBulletin was already the most expensive forum software on the market. I'm really not sure these price hikes are a good idea. The quality of the new product better be that much better than the existing product or else there is no justification for it other than greed on the part of the new ownership.

I think maybe there's a conflict of interest with the new ownership - they happen to own over a hundred vb-powered websites that cover several different markets. Seems to me they're on track to make websites that compete with their network pay a lot more money to run the same software they run, essentially, driving down competition and giving themselves an advantage (assuming of course, that vb4 is that much better than other scripts on the market). Smart I suppose.

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Originally Posted by Paul M

Its is not the job of vbulletin.org staff to inform you about vb4 licencing, Lynne answered a question, and provided a link to the correct source of information.

Thing is, the correct source of information she linked to differs from the email I received yesterday.

As a preferred customer with an active license, we are excited to offer the vBulletin Publishing Suite at a pre-sale discount price of only $130 (over 50% off regular price). This is a truly limited one-time special offer giving you $120 off the upgrade price but will expire on Friday October 30, 2009.

Seems I will have to pay $130 for an upgrade being that I own a vb and vb blog license.