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Post by stevegbr on Jun 30, 2017 7:37:20 GMT
it looks like photobucket are disabling accounts and want to charge you for using their service, trouble is you cant download
your photos, anyone on here having the same problem.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2017 9:20:24 GMT
How much they charging Steve?
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Post by stevegbr on Jun 30, 2017 9:30:54 GMT
i have had a email today. they want $399 annualy to keep my account, its happening all over the web.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2017 9:56:52 GMT
That's a piss take.
Are you serious?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2017 9:57:58 GMT
My concern now is that it will also happen here.
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Post by stevegbr on Jun 30, 2017 10:00:13 GMT
photos and avatars are already missing.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2017 10:09:18 GMT
This is serious.  |
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Post by wazzbo on Jun 30, 2017 11:54:38 GMT
Ba*tards,good job we all have backups of our pics, haven't we?
But its not good for all the posts that are on here using pb...
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Post by wazzbo on Jun 30, 2017 11:57:02 GMT
Just tried it on my phone and it's still working ok at the minute
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2017 12:29:45 GMT
i have put some photos of my 1958 triumph on pb but not sure how to put them on here but will work it out
brian
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Post by adelee on Jun 30, 2017 12:35:57 GMT
Flickr is better anyway.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2017 17:16:47 GMT
This is going to kill forums. What about all the historic build threads, meet photos, etc. etc.
It looks as though photobucket no longer want to pay bandwidth costs for people with free accounts. And once the free account is locked you only have the 400 quid option. Does not seem to be affecting any paid accounts, so some peeps are quickly upgrading to the lowest paid option in order to retain access and be able to download all their images.
I first thought that this will kill photobucket as very few will pay such a high amount. Maybe it will, but they are not getting any income from the free accounts anyway.....
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Post by terryc on Jun 30, 2017 17:32:03 GMT
They still get advertising revenue from the free accounts so it may cost them in the long run
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2017 17:37:11 GMT
I think everybody gets the adverts Terry- paid and unpaid, that's a complaint from photobucket users.
But the difference is that on here photobucket is paying to host a photo on a page surrounded by adverts that earn proboards money.
The price demanded is obviously to get everybody to bugger off anyway. Maybe photobucket have changed their business model......
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Post by wazzbo on Jun 30, 2017 18:47:54 GMT
I`ve just been looking through the new terms and conditions and is seems that the free account, the ad free account which cost $2.49 a month, the plus 50 plan @ $59.99 a year do NOT allow any image linking or 3rd party image hosting.
The cheapest plan that allows image linking but not 3rd party image hosting is the plus 100 plan @ $99.99.
If you want Unlimited image linking and unlimited 3rd party hosting the plus plan 500 @ $399.99 is the only one available.
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