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Re: Photobucket rip-off
Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2017 7:46 pm
by BottomDollar
A lot of DIY/hobby forums are totally boned by this move. It nuked all of their user's images going back a decade or more in some cases. There were a ton of valuable research resources that just vaporized overnight.
I wish they would have just stopped supporting new hot links and continued to host the old images instead of this $400 ransom situation. It's literally cheaper to lease your own server than to pay that ridiculous fee.
Re: Photobucket rip-off
Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2017 9:39 pm
by Wallyandre (Andre)
BottomDollar wrote:A lot of DIY/hobby forums are totally boned by this move. It nuked all of their user's images going back a decade or more in some cases. There were a ton of valuable research resources that just vaporized overnight.
I wish they would have just stopped supporting new hot links and continued to host the old images instead of this $400 ransom situation. It's literally cheaper to lease your own server than to pay that ridiculous fee.
agree!
Re: Photobucket rip-off
Posted: Sun Jul 02, 2017 8:01 am
by raz
I was reading some feedback photobucket is getting on their twitter page and they are getting slammed and slammed hard. Thousands of folks from forums and ebay sellers using them are super pissed. They will most likely disappear if they don't revert back to allow 3rd party posting.
https://twitter.com/photobucket/status/ ... 4702127104
Re: Photobucket rip-off
Posted: Sun Jul 02, 2017 9:22 am
by Wallyandre (Andre)
I think what they are going to do is to lower the cost for hosting from $400 to maybe $50/year or something like that.
I'm actually downloading all my albums on my hard disch and I will use another host.
Re: Photobucket rip-off
Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2017 8:06 am
by jimbow
I save ALL my pix and data on a hard drive or card device, I don't trust any "cloud" or off site resources at all.
Re: Photobucket rip-off
Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2017 6:25 am
by digitroll (ron)
I just received my email from Photo bucket about this change two days ago. $50 is too much for what they call 3rd party hosting. Really? All my photos are on I cloud anyway 5,600 photos and 300 videos.
Re: Photobucket rip-off
Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2017 6:41 am
by Wallyandre (Andre)
At $50 you're not allowed to third party posting it's $400/year
Re: Photobucket rip-off
Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2017 6:52 am
by digitroll (ron)
They will lose all their customers.
Re: Photobucket rip-off
Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2017 7:49 am
by Shaye D Winds
Seems that is the way lots on these companies work. Get a following and the start charging. It would be ok if it was reasonable.
Re: Photobucket rip-off
Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2017 11:33 am
by SFM186
just went through my account and copied all of my pics to my hard drive. i opened an imgur account and have used that a little and so far it's working well. bye bye photobucket.. too bad too, i've bought a lot of their prints and canvas prints for gifts over the years. not anymore...