Of course it is good to have both free and commercial addons for Mambo, but still paying significant amount of money for some product that you know doesn't worth that much is not so nice. Price of 20£+ for some basic component is a example of overcharging. Beside that, for most of the components I've purchased there is NO support. So if something doesn't work, you're on your own. I've purchased f. ex. Phil-a-form ... nice script, now the guy has stopped further development, and there is still sentence on his web site "lifetime updates" lol ... probably he will come up with next generation of form processing component for the next generation of Mambo (v5) ... Anyway if you want to extend functionality of your Mambo site, you have to add some commercial addons, but at the end it will cost you just as much as you have purchased a commercial CMS with built in functionalisties. I've seen some post where is mentioned some 35.000 $ charge for CMS ... anyway I think 35K $ is enough for your own server, 1 year of Internet access and pay for 6 months for excellent programer to develop you very own CMS
so if you can find me some of the customers for 35K $ I would be very happy