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bartmcneill · 10-20-2017, 03:38 PM

I'm not great on some computer stuff but I keep seeing a Photo Bucket box where a picture should be. I go to the website and they want $400 a year for me to use Photo Bucket. Are they nuts? Or do I just not understand. What is the deal?

J Franklin · 10-20-2017, 03:40 PM

Greed!

slammin · 10-20-2017, 03:49 PM

Photo Bucket changed their policy early this year. Anyone that didn't pay the ransom lost access to all their photos. I never signed up in the first place, but its frustrating not having access to all those lost photos.

Charlie Stephens · 10-20-2017, 03:55 PM

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Originally Posted by bartmcneill

I'm not great on some computer stuff but I keep seeing a Photo Bucket box where a picture should be. I go to the website and they want $400 a year for me to use Photo Bucket. Are they nuts? Or do I just not understand. What is the deal?

The deal with PhotoBucket is that they want $400 (approx) a year from anyone that wants to use their server to post photos. Once the poster has paid the $400 everyone can see their photos. The way they handled this is so bad I wonder if someone sold their Photobucket stock short? Reminders of their stupidity in this issue are posted in thousands (if not millions) of places across the Internet. I hope when someone finds out whose idea this was they are fired. Remember that it is easy to post pictures directly to ford barn (and most other sites).

Charlie Stephens

Synchro909 · 10-20-2017, 04:07 PM

I've never used Photobucket and on the strength of comments like these, I never will. I imagine there are plenty like me so you have wonder why they did it. Their future doesn't look too good if no one uses them any more.

Jim/GA · 10-20-2017, 04:13 PM

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Yes, Photobucket decided they could not afford to host everyone's photos for free forever. They decided they needed some kind of revenue to pay the bills. I don't know why they insisted on getting it from us. Why couldn't the other guys pay it? They knew what they were doing when they started their company.

Your Photobucket photos are not lost with this big change. You personally still have full access to them. But no one else can see them, like when you share them on a forum like Ford Barn.

You can download all of your own photos from them and then go put them somewhere else for others to see. The main issue is that you would have to go back and find all of those links to your photos and change them. Never going to happen.

But you don't lose your photos.

SeaSlugs · 10-20-2017, 05:09 PM

I would still get all your pictures off there before they do hold them blackmail...i cant imagine anyone paying them 400 bucks so they are about to go under.

Tom Wesenberg · 10-21-2017, 03:34 AM

Photobucket didn't shoot themselves in the foot.........the fools shot themselves in the head.

I quit using them 5 years ago, and now wish I never started using them.

holdover · 10-21-2017, 01:52 PM

Greed is the word as has been said, and stupidity. I read elsewhere that they had millions of customers, if they only charged, say 25.00, most would have done it, but 400 is a rip off. They could have raised maybe as much as a billion with a fair charge, now I understand people are running away like they have a deadly virus.
I used them for many years, now there are options. As to posting on this site it is easy as I have bee shown. Go to the Go advanced, click on the paper click click on browse go to your pics and pick the ones you want , then upload load your pics

jim1932 · 10-21-2017, 02:40 PM

even the high-end smugmug fee is $9 a month. WAY less than $400

Crankster · 10-21-2017, 04:16 PM

This is a recurring theme in different ways, the end result though is archived forum posts for all kinds of things going back decades are prety much worthless or at least crippled. "See here where I removed 1/4" of material and installed a capacitor, here's the before photo, and now that I'm all done.". Of course computer storage isn't free but the costs have come down a whole lot. It's reasonable to change terms of service, but to make it retroactive was a dick move. Best to upload photographs directly to the website in almost every instance I can think of.

bartmcneill · 10-23-2017, 11:08 PM

Thanks for the feedback, I thought maybe I was reading it wrong. Photo Bucket is crazy.

Tom F OHIO · 10-24-2017, 08:17 AM

[QUOTE=holdover;1542105]Greed is the word as has been said, and stupidity. I read elsewhere that they had millions of customers, if they only charged, say 25.00, most would have done it, but 400 is a rip off. They could have raised maybe as much as a billion with a fair charge, now I understand people are running away like they have a deadly virus.
I used them for many years, now there are options. As to posting on this site it is easy as I have bee shown. Go to the Go advanced, click on the paper click click on browse go to your pics and pick the ones you want , then upload load your pics[/QV

Very nice looking pickup truck.....

10-20-2017, 03:38 PM	#1
bartmcneill Senior Member Join Date: May 2010 Location: Ada, OK Posts: 577	Photo Bucket thing I'm not great on some computer stuff but I keep seeing a Photo Bucket box where a picture should be. I go to the website and they want $400 a year for me to use Photo Bucket. Are they nuts? Or do I just not understand. What is the deal?

10-20-2017, 03:40 PM	#2
J Franklin Senior Member Join Date: May 2010 Location: Oregon Posts: 5,960	Re: Photo Bucket thing Greed!

10-20-2017, 03:49 PM	#3
slammin Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2017 Location: Fruita, CO Posts: 281	Re: Photo Bucket thing Photo Bucket changed their policy early this year. Anyone that didn't pay the ransom lost access to all their photos. I never signed up in the first place, but its frustrating not having access to all those lost photos.

10-20-2017, 04:07 PM	#5
Synchro909 Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2014 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 7,496	Re: Photo Bucket thing I've never used Photobucket and on the strength of comments like these, I never will. I imagine there are plenty like me so you have wonder why they did it. Their future doesn't look too good if no one uses them any more. __________________ I'm part of the only ever generation with an analogue childhood and a digital adulthood.

10-20-2017, 04:13 PM	#6
Jim/GA Senior Member Join Date: May 2010 Location: Young Harris, GA Posts: 1,815	Re: Photo Bucket thing Sponsored Links (Register now to hide all advertisements) Yes, Photobucket decided they could not afford to host everyone's photos for free forever. They decided they needed some kind of revenue to pay the bills. I don't know why they insisted on getting it from us. Why couldn't the other guys pay it? They knew what they were doing when they started their company. Your Photobucket photos are not lost with this big change. You personally still have full access to them. But no one else can see them, like when you share them on a forum like Ford Barn. You can download all of your own photos from them and then go put them somewhere else for others to see. The main issue is that you would have to go back and find all of those links to your photos and change them. Never going to happen. But you don't lose your photos. __________________ Jim Cannon Former MAFCA Technical Director "Have a Model A day!"

10-20-2017, 05:09 PM	#7
SeaSlugs Senior Member Join Date: May 2010 Location: Central, IL Posts: 3,968	Re: Photo Bucket thing I would still get all your pictures off there before they do hold them blackmail...i cant imagine anyone paying them 400 bucks so they are about to go under. __________________ 1929 Model AA - Need long splash aprons!

10-21-2017, 03:34 AM	#8
Tom Wesenberg Senior Member Join Date: May 2010 Location: Mpls, MN Posts: 27,582	Re: Photo Bucket thing Photobucket didn't shoot themselves in the foot.........the fools shot themselves in the head. I quit using them 5 years ago, and now wish I never started using them.

10-21-2017, 02:40 PM	#10
jim1932 Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Hancock, MA Posts: 2,779	Re: Photo Bucket thing even the high-end smugmug fee is $9 a month. WAY less than $400 __________________ Short URL: http://smu.gs/14g7eDW

10-21-2017, 04:16 PM	#11
Crankster Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2017 Posts: 563	Re: Photo Bucket thing This is a recurring theme in different ways, the end result though is archived forum posts for all kinds of things going back decades are prety much worthless or at least crippled. "See here where I removed 1/4" of material and installed a capacitor, here's the before photo, and now that I'm all done.". Of course computer storage isn't free but the costs have come down a whole lot. It's reasonable to change terms of service, but to make it retroactive was a dick move. Best to upload photographs directly to the website in almost every instance I can think of.

10-23-2017, 11:08 PM	#12
bartmcneill Senior Member Join Date: May 2010 Location: Ada, OK Posts: 577	Re: Photo Bucket thing Thanks for the feedback, I thought maybe I was reading it wrong. Photo Bucket is crazy.

10-24-2017, 08:17 AM	#13
Tom F OHIO Senior Member Join Date: May 2010 Location: Mansfield, Ohio Posts: 408	Re: Photo Bucket thing [QUOTE=holdover;1542105]Greed is the word as has been said, and stupidity. I read elsewhere that they had millions of customers, if they only charged, say 25.00, most would have done it, but 400 is a rip off. They could have raised maybe as much as a billion with a fair charge, now I understand people are running away like they have a deadly virus. I used them for many years, now there are options. As to posting on this site it is easy as I have bee shown. Go to the Go advanced, click on the paper click click on browse go to your pics and pick the ones you want , then upload load your pics[/QV Very nice looking pickup truck.....