@punkkeks Do you really know what this regex does?

1. I don't see any $-sign in the regex. Its a §-sign!
2. It does not only check if the string starts with the §-sign, it replaces all occurrences of formatting codes (http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Formatting_codes) with string.empty to get the clean message.

For example:
"§a[Shop] §r§aItem Information: §r" is replaced to "[Shop] Item Information:"

Maybe we can change it to a static compiled regex!?