Photobucket... too little too late

I just received an email from Photobucket saying that they have new management and now want to do the "right thing" with regards to their recent blocking of third party hosting of my pictures. Now they only want to charge me $19.99 per year for something that was previously free instead of the $400.00 per year that they tried to make me pay initially when they changed their policy. All of those blocked pictures will apparently be available again for some short time as a show of good faith, but will eventually be blocked again if I don't pony up the $19.99 per year. There are other sites that are still free for the small amount of pictures that I want to put on the web, so they have lost me for good.

Agreed. I just use the Advanced Posting Tools below and upload any pics from my hard drive. Example attached. This was on Photobucket and I just now use my hard drive. Good riddance to them.

I guess that deep knife they put in killed the golden goose.

Tell em KMA.

(quoted from post at 17:22:46 05/17/18) I guess that deep knife they put in killed the golden goose.

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Tried to sign up for the $19.99 yearly plan, but it won't let me pay with card or Pay Pal.

I never could get photo bucket to work right so I've been using postimage all along.

I have had that deal for a year and a haft I have about winged myself of the bucket and need to cancel my deal with them...

At first I pony upped the doe to get rid of the adds it worked for awhile then the adds came back. Then about the time they went for the big bucks it got 100 times better other than the adds that pop up every now and again I was happy paying 19.95...

I pay around 4500 a year for other subscriptions and that may be a modest figure so whats another 20 bucks... I can live with out the bucket BUT they have sure fuged up good info on the net ...

Well Hobo, you got all that $ to blow, Throw some my way, if its free its for me.

Yeah, it's been 11 months now since PhotoPhucket made that huge change and I'm sure they lost a lot of business because of it. I don't know of anyone foolish enough to pay $400/per year for their services. The exodus of folks downloading their photos and running to IMGUR or other places was soon recognized and stopped by them too. They had a function whereby you could download your album, was sent to via email in a zip file, but they soon caught on many people were doing that so they at first put a kink in the system that prevented it. If you contacted their limited 'tech support' you got a reply stating they were aware of the problem and were "working on it". This went on for months and I sent numerous complaints to no avail until one day they just simply deleted the 'download album' function altogether -no explanation, no notice. You can go to your account and if you open each photo by itself, can download it/save it your hard drive/folder. The problem is that when you first saved a photo to PB, it automatically got reduced in size. When you now download a photo, you get a that reduced version. Best to keep your original photos saved in a folder on your hard drive. I download my pictures to my computer via the software that came with my digital camera. From there I can choose which ones I want to keep and copy and paste them into specifically created folders on my hard drive and often will rename them. Now I have two copies of the same photo in their original pixel format. This being said, I lost many photos a few years ago when my ancient PC crashed for the last time and I could not reconstitute the hard drive to retrieve them. I yanked the hard drive and trashed the rest. There are places that offer to salvage your data but the cost is usually close to $1k or more. maybe someday I'll have my NASA buddy get into it...meanwhile I now use IMGUR but someday they may decide to discontinue their FREE services as well. Here's a sample from my IMGUR library:

EARLY 1948 FORD 8N & DEARBORN 10-8 PLOW, RESTORED by TIM DALEY; OWNER/OPERATOR:

Tim *PloughNman* Daley(MI)

I pay around 4500 a year for other subscriptions and that may be a modest figure so whats another 20 bucks...

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Wow... What kind of subscriptions are those?

$4500 in other subscriptions sounds like professional software licenses for CAD, imaging, very large file hosting, web hosting and management, or similar.

They sent me the same email. I replied stuff it up your
backside. I got a automatic reply stating their robot doesn't
understand my request.

I never received an email notice about this change, just went to post pictures after I read this and my old photos showed up. If this only a short-term offer until you pony up $20, then I guess my work is cut out for me. I began going to all my old posts of manuals, brochures, and pictures from PB and copying and saving them to a folder on my desktop. This is much faster and less time consuming than trying to copy and save photos directly from their site. Since they dissolved the 'download album' function altogether, this is the only way you an get your old photos and save them. I have not gone to their site to see if that download option is now back up so will do that later. I'm not sure I want to take them up on that offer after what they did to us last year even at that rate.

Tim *PloughNman* Daley(MI)

I never received an email notice about this change

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Have you changed email addresses since you started using photobucket? I have 3 different email addresses besides the one I have through my employer. I had one a long time ago that I no longer have, and it took me a while to find all of the sites that I had registered to with that one and get them changed.

Automotive repair information, automotive professional only web sites, auto updates on shop equipment.

Everything has gone internet based you have to buy a monthly subscription get good information.

Open up a repair shop and try and run it with a FO-4 manual and a shoe box full of craftsman tools...

A couple quick ones

Identifix Direct-hit 149.00 a mo (started it a couple mo ago)
Snap-on 115.00 A mo.
Alldata 179.00 A mo. (I just dropped them this mo.)
Mitchell 179.00 A mo. (dropped them the first of the year)

I still have Alldata and Mitchel on CD but they are 2013/2014 subscriptions. I will never again do the auto updates with snap-on again I will go back to what I use to do buy a new scan tool get the first year free updates use it three years and trade it in then buy it back a week later for $1000 and use it as a back up.

My scan tool cost $9500 its gets auto updates @115 a mo. and Y'all want a free check engine light check along with whats wrong with it on the spot :evil:

I thought that scan tool would be the last one I would ever buy but its not outdated...

Yeah, but look how many have failed. PhotoPhucket shot themselves in the foot when they tried to charge $400 per year for photo sharing. I really don't believe anyone was foolish enough to subscribe to that ridiculous notion. Like PT Barnum once said, "...there's a sucker born every minute...". Greed will kill you every time. What about if there were anyone fools that did pay that? Will they now get a refund? Not likely. Might get offered a 20 year deal paid in full???

Tim Daley(MI)

I am not trying to sell PB all I can tell ya is it now works great I am pleased with it @ $19 a year...

I would not go back to it free the way it was before...