He said it's too expensive "for such a service", not too much money to spend on anything. If I were to charge you $40/month for a script that shows a user's IP

He said it's too expensive "for such a service", not too much money to spend on anything. If I were to charge you $40/month for a script that shows a user's IP address and nothing else would you still shout "it's almost free!"? Yes it's not a huge amount of money, but it's enough that I, like the person to whom you were replying, would not pay it - largely because I could code it myself.