I recently received an email from Photobucket that my plan would no longer allow photo hosting (then what's the point?) but because I'm such a "loyal customer", I'm eligible for a new plan at an increased cost. Of course, they have several different plan names at similar costs because they can't seem to synch their marketing. All this after issues with unwanted watermarks on photos, problems with uploading photos, and warnings that I've exceeded my storage. (I don't think I've ever had more than 20 photos on the site: I usually just upload some pics when I'm selling something on here or another site or want to share photos on a thread. Then I delete them.)

Anyway, I've finally had my fill, so I responded thusly:

"You clowns are pathetic! My "thanks" for being a loyal member of your broken service is to have the price I pay bumped-up. Maybe if you spent less time smoking pot and more time fixing the numerous problems with you "service", you wouldn't be bleeding customers. I'll be following-up on your site to cancel my service. I expect it to be a difficult process, like pretty much everything else having to do with your broken enterprise."

Felt good!

Plan for guaranteed business success: Raise prices and reduce services. That has worked so well for so many companies.

Photobucket died awhile back as far as I'm concerned. They were THE go to for awhile...but came up with a business plan that ruined them.

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Originally posted by Jager:
Photobucket died awhile back as far as I'm concerned. They were THE go to for awhile...but came up with a business plan that ruined them.

Yep, I pulled all my stuff down from there years ago.

Anyone know of an easy way to remove photos from Photobucket back to my laptop, maybe in batches? Only way I can see is bringing up each photo and downloading them one by one.

Btw I like your note to them, Mesabi.

Yes, you can batch download everything in your account. I did it when Photobucket first went full retard several years ago.

But I don't recall the exact steps, and no longer have an account to log into to snoop around.

Photobucket & TinyPic have ruined most of the forums I visit that don't have photo hosting
If you go back thru old treads it seems every photo ever used is now gone..

I'll try to remember your e-mail, when I have my annual renewal session with SiriusXM.

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Originally posted by RogueJSK:
Yes, you can batch download everything in your account. I did it when Photobucket first went full retard several years ago.

But I don't recall the exact steps, and no longer have an account to log into to snoop around.

I don't have an account, at least not a pay account.

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Originally posted by Beretta92:
Photobucket & TinyPic have ruined most of the forums I visit..

True to a point. But the blame is also on people who expected things to be free forever. Because what happened with Photobucket happened to pretty much every free photo host there's ever been. They're all a business model, not the philanthropic works of some photo loving billionaire. (most of them crap out) It shouldn't have come as a surprise to anyone.

Yep. Widely available free hotlinking of hosted photos was good while it lasted, but those days are past.

Bandwidth costs money. The photo hosting sites used to be able to cover the cost of the bandwidth with ads, but no longer. Money offered by ad companies is down significantly, and patience for annoying internet ads is at an all time low so ad blockers are widely used nowadays.

Everyone is eventually going to have to start paying for image hosting. Everyone. Even if you switch to using one of the handful of free photos hosts who still remain, their days are numbered, and this will simply repeat itself in the near future with each of those sites.

Bite the bullet and pay a few bucks per month for a good photo host. (Not Photobucket... They suck, even for paying customers.)

It's well worth it.

Slight drift.. Can someone help me with the name of the very large free photo host that went pay, then went away in either late 90's, early 00's? It's driving me crazy trying to think of the name. I got burnt by them and have been paying for hosting ever since.

(burnt because at the time I wasn't even on a computer, so I had no way to back up any photos myself. When they flipped, I literally lost them all)

Check the lower list.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...age-sharing_websites

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Originally posted by Jager:
Photobucket died awhile back as far as I'm concerned. They were THE go to for awhile...but came up with a business plan that ruined them.

Herein lies the issue....they WERE the go to and that led to a complacent attitude.

I didn't mind paying for the service; I just expected the service to work.

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Originally posted by sigfreund:
Plan for guaranteed business success: Raise prices and reduce services. That has worked so well for so many companies.

I wouldn't say that exactly as every business has to adjust their fees, products etc from time to time.

More like it's how you say it not what you say~ applies here more.

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Originally posted by sigfreund:
Plan for guaranteed business success: Raise prices and reduce services. That has worked so well for so many companies.

Health insurance being the exception. They have this down to an art.