Do you have to pay for vBulletin yearly?

If you buy an owned vBulletin license (I believe they are selling them for $180), do you have to pay $180 year after year?

 

No you don't, you get free upgrades for the first year and then after that you can pay a small amount to get upgrades for a further year and so on. Your license however, lasts forever. If you didn't want to upgrade to the latest version you could go years without paying anything.

 

If you want to upgrade to the latest version of vBulletin do you have to pay $180?

 

The last time I looked if you had payed the $30 fee each year you got the most recent version of the current series free. If there had been a laspe in your coverage so other rule applied.

Instead of asking here why not just go to the jelsoft forum and read or ask for a definative answer

 

When your license expires you have 60 days to renew it at $40 USD, after 60 days of expiration, you have to pay $60.

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=268714

 

and it's worth every penny IMO
it's when you have more then one that the updates start to hurt the old wallet..lol

 

No need if you owned the vB license.
You only need to pay $60/yrs to obtain the latest update such as security fix from vB

 

it is normally smart to get the updates, but what you do is you only renew it when u need to update.