Hi there, It took me aboout $175 for the script, and I paid for the site to be designed, as it was harder than I thought. Then there are $30 fees monthly to stay open. And I buy the site name bigbeachbucks.com. That is some that I can think of. And it is tons of fun to run:) I have bought contest scripts and spent about $50-75 on them. Then a few script extras I have bought... the list goes on and on for what your choices are, I have just picked a few that I thought would be helpful on my site:) Let me know if you need help starting:)