39 replies to this topic

[vocky]

$399 ransom demand, is it pure greed or do they just hate everybody

 

Personally I have closed my account, what are your thoughts 

 

 

[siztenboots]

dropbox dropped their direct hosting of files in public folders , really don't want to run my own apache box , so what next

[CocoPops]

Yep, also got the $399 ransom. They can fcuk off!

[siztenboots]

also got the ransom from Vodafone broadband , price increase take it or leave it , just 3 months into a 18 month agreement

[fiveoclock]

Has this been sent to people with free accounts? I already pay $29.95 a year to host 1000's of images for business and I havent received anything and my hosting is still fine.

Edited by fiveoclock, 30 June 2017 - 09:41 AM.

[rob999]

I noticed it this Morning on here. A royal PITA

[KurtVerbose]

Abandoned photobucket ages ago - imgur.com does all the stuff photobucket used to do well and it's still for free.

[WrightStuff]

Thats gonna break a ton of threads on here.

A service thats become steadily worse over the years with a sluggish, ad riddled interface and now they want to charge for it ? Do one!

[rob999]

Is there going to be an easy way of transferring everything on a photobucket account onto another image hosting site?

[vocky]

I noticed the other day on various car restoration threads I follow, that the photos had gone, then noticed my photos had also been locked.

 

 

[FLD]

Not noticed it yet. Do I get an email or is it next time I use it?

[CHILL Gone DUTCH]

You can still download the images and view with photobucket direct It's just for third party hostings like we use on forums etc

[chickendippers]

Surprised people still use Photobucket, jumped ship ages ago due to the ridiculously slow interface and constant ads.

[ianrm]

Just cost us $399 at work. All our e-bay images are on photofuckit. No prior notice, came in to work this morning to find no images on our 3,000 odd listings. 

[jules_s]

I always suspected they would monetise it somehow, but fcuk me what a bunch of doodahs doing it that way

[The Batman]

If it was £20 I would pay it but $399 is pretty rediculous!!

[CocoPops]

Agreed, that's the issue for me Joe. £20?£50? But not $399!

[KurtVerbose]

It's really about extracting as much money as they can while they can. You don't get new customers by charging for image hosting, but you can blackmail existing companies by charging high fees and taking their images down unless they pay up.

[The Batman]

started a new imgur account, hopefully the photobucket pics will come back once they realise we arent going to pay $399!!

[GiGo]

I haven't had an email from photobucket but I only host a small number of images for here and a couple of other forums.

 

Abandoned photobucket ages ago - imgur.com does all the stuff photobucket used to do well and it's still for free.

Cheers for that, will jump ship, Photobucket really is slow and full of ads!