Only one hack that I know of costs money, and that is the karma hack and even if everything in UBBT is free, the free hacks at vbulletin.org outnumber UBBT's hacks by a bundle. I don't think it's fair to bash the admins there because of their age (I am sure they are not fifteen).
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