Photobucket

[Highwayman]

I tried to search on previous discussions about this but not specific threads popped up.

Photobucket got a new CEO and not only went back to allowing pictures to be posted on 3rd party sites but also lowered their pricing. The free market has spoken.

BTW I am not going back now.

https://www.bizjournals.com/denver/news/2018/05/17/photobucket-drops-pricing-that-angered-millions.html

[onecrazydog]

They screwed a lot of people over...

[Tommy Gun]

Yeah, reopen closed accounts then we’ll talk...

[twobjshelbys]

They lost a lot of customers.

[Tommy Gun]

Hey!

It works again



http://i670.photobucket.com/albums/vv61/fastestshelby2/IMG_1736_zpsikewnxgb.jpg (http://s670.photobucket.com/user/fastestshelby2/media/IMG_1736_zpsikewnxgb.jpg.html)


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[Highwayman]

Apparently according to the article they restored all pictures so if you still have a link in a 3rd party site the pictures will be viable again.

I deleted all of my pictures so none of them will display now on those links.

[68fastback]

I tried to search on previous discussions about this but not specific threads popped up.

Photobucket got a new CEO and not only went back to allowing pictures to be posted on 3rd party sites but also lowered their pricing. The free market has spoken.

BTW I am not going back now.

https://www.bizjournals.com/denver/news/2018/05/17/photobucket-drops-pricing-that-angered-millions.html

Amazing how rethink-receptive bankruptcy can make a company. :giggle:

[Alloy Dave]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dd0a-elV4AAIQZf.jpg

[68fastback]

:lol:

[Boston Mike]

They lost a lot of customers.

begs the question, is a customer really someone that doesn't pay for a service??

[twobjshelbys]

begs the question, is a customer really someone that doesn't pay for a service??

The site is advertiser laden, so yes, free accounts are "customers".

I was paying 90/year to host my photos. I signed up after the Vegas Ford GT rally in 2014 and all of the lookers brought me up to the bandwith limit. I was "OK" with 90/year, but not 400/year. The paid subscription would disappear after a time anyway (my wife will not keep it up after my dirt nap) so I dropped it instead of paying the extortion. I was going to delete them because of their abandoned account policy that turns over rights to photos to them for an account that has been unused for over a year. The odd thing is the images never got replaced with their speedo thingie, so I just left them.

[68fastback]

I never sign up for any of those photo hosting things -- I 'host' my own photos -lol ...besides, under current laws they all will eventually own your photos; that's their long-term game -- fine if pics you don't care about but pics of children and 'asset' pics (potentially for sale) should never be put on any of them, imo.. Even when I post 'nice' pics here, I either invisibly watermark them or reduce the effective resolution (size, density, compression) such that they are effectively not sellable. I don't trust any of the pic hosting services.

[twobjshelbys]

I never sign up for any of those photo hosting things -- I 'host' my own photos -lol ...besides, under current laws they all will eventually own your photos; that's their long-term game -- fine if pics you don't care about but pics of children and 'asset' pics (potentially for sale) should never be put on any of them, imo.. Even when I post 'nice' pics here, I either invisibly watermark them or reduce the effective resolution (size, density, compression) such that they are effectively not sellable. I don't trust any of the pic hosting services.

As I've said before, Ansel Adams would never have posted his pics to the internet.

[68fastback]

As I've said before, Ansel Adams would never have posted his pics to the internet.

:lol: :logical: ;-)

[Highwayman]

begs the question, is a customer really someone that doesn't pay for a service??

So your not a customer here then? Just asking the question.

[Tommy Gun]

Found another oldie...





http://i670.photobucket.com/albums/vv61/fastestshelby2/Daytona%202009%20pics/MKS_5597.jpg (http://s670.photobucket.com/user/fastestshelby2/media/Daytona%202009%20pics/MKS_5597.jpg.html)

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[68fastback]

...a blast from the past! ;-)