In my opinion before getting the award mods chould check trade feedbacks.
About payd or not payd is maxtor's business what he do, if you thing that the stuffs we add on the forum are for free you are highly wrong.
There are some leeches of our forum @ here and also i cant denied the things we add on forum and mods are there on google for free but as you know maxcheaters is a respected forum we preffer to be sure and buy them from the sources like we did with IPB Forum License.
So overall you cant blame him for the money he want to earn, maybe you do business with LOL Things u get them for free or by working a bit but here its just invest and u never know if u take ur money back or not.
Anyway my point is if u wanna buy the award check the trade feedback in order to aprove it or not.
GL.