lizards2 Posted January 24, 2018 Share Posted January 24, 2018 Hello Mike, We would like to offer a tailored plan for users just like you - our Premium plan for $99.99 / year. The Premium plan will provide 3rd party hosting for non-commercial use on your forums, blogs, and personal websites*. Additionally, you will be able to store up to 300,000 photos. We are working on some exciting changes for 2018. This is our exclusive introductory price and this offer will expire in 7 days. Premium Plan Thank you very much for your continued support. -Sebastian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paperheart Posted January 24, 2018 Share Posted January 24, 2018 i have a dream, to have deleted my last image from Photobucket Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exitmusicblue Posted January 24, 2018 Share Posted January 24, 2018 How are these guys still floating? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lizards2 Posted January 25, 2018 Author Share Posted January 25, 2018 45 minutes ago, exitmusicblue said: How are these guys still floating? It looks like they're willing to start cutting deals in an effort to stay afloat longer...., Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oakman29 Posted January 25, 2018 Share Posted January 25, 2018 Im done. ADAMANTIUM 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Man Posted January 25, 2018 Share Posted January 25, 2018 I'm done too. Looks like a desperate move. This plan was $300. more a few months ago when they were playing hardball. Good riddiance... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lizards2 Posted January 25, 2018 Author Share Posted January 25, 2018 31 minutes ago, Robot Man said: I'm done too. Looks like a desperate move. This plan was $300. more a few months ago when they were playing hardball. Good riddiance... I might stay with another price drop - I'm already paying something like $40 a year, and if I don't have to move all my carp....., Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greggy Posted January 25, 2018 Share Posted January 25, 2018 I'll play hardball with them longer. lizards2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ygogolak Posted January 25, 2018 Share Posted January 25, 2018 If we all pay them $100 total will the restore all of the photos that got cut from the boards and web in general? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Sinescu Posted January 25, 2018 Share Posted January 25, 2018 My view is just a microcosm of the overall picture, but they absolutely decimated a number of important threads that detailed painstaking individual research and documentation just in a couple of collectibles fields I frequent, then grossly overestimated the ransom people were willing to pay to get those images reinstated. I mean, to go from free to $300 is nuts. Nuts. I realize it probably got out of control quickly, but it's incredibly difficult to take liberties away from people once they've become accustomed to them. To not understand that is to outright ignore human nature. To me, it's just been a terrible, terrible PR move on their part and I'm surprised they're still able to manage at all (maybe gettin' by on some of that photo mug money). A shrewd planner would have accepted that the 3rd-party use was too widespread to not cause mass photo-genocide and grandfathered in all photos posted before the announcement with the proviso that, going forward, 3rd-party site sharing for new images would not be allowed without paying a reasonable amount of money. An entry-level price of $20 a year I can see and you'd have thousands more that could accept that small amount out of their budget. For the casual use of sharing information such as occurs on these boards, even $99 a year is crazy, especially when you have competition. That equates to a one-year subscription to Netflix -- that's how they're valuing their service. Which one to you is a better stretch of your $100? As Johnny Lydon sang, if this was a piece of cake then you took too big a slice. Also, kudos to CGC for bypassing this by hosting images on the site directly. Seriously big Nick's Comics 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lizards2 Posted January 25, 2018 Author Share Posted January 25, 2018 46 minutes ago, Martin Sinescu said: Also, kudos to CGC for bypassing this by hosting images on the site directly. Seriously big Who do you think is paying for that? comick1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fan Boy Posted January 25, 2018 Share Posted January 25, 2018 I didn’t get that email from photobucket. Anyhow it doesn’t matter, their offer of $300 and now their $99 offer ... it still is no good. Times has changed, many of us had moved on to other hosting sites. Photobucket already shot their foot when they come up with that nutty prices. Their problem, not ours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
comick1 Posted January 25, 2018 Share Posted January 25, 2018 I gotta upload all my @#$%^ to Imgur, but I will get over it. I was already paying an annual price with Paypal before they pulled that stunt. No longer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsilverjanet Posted January 25, 2018 Share Posted January 25, 2018 Who the F names their Lizard Mike? greggy and porcupine48 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tec-Tac-Toe Posted January 25, 2018 Share Posted January 25, 2018 I communicated with PB when their price increased "slightly," and they basically told me to go, ahem, 'f myself. Perhaps I'll communicate with them again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drbanner Posted January 25, 2018 Share Posted January 25, 2018 They can suck it, I moved over to Postimage and it's so much easier. PB holding historical/legacy images hostage is BS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spracknetch23 Posted January 25, 2018 Share Posted January 25, 2018 (edited) Too late, already deleted my account. But I agree $99 is still too much to just be able to post your images elsewhere when other sites are free for the exact same thing. Cuckoo. Edited January 25, 2018 by spracknetch23 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skypinkblu Posted January 25, 2018 Share Posted January 25, 2018 14 hours ago, lizards2 said: I might stay with another price drop - I'm already paying something like $40 a year, and if I don't have to move all my carp....., Me, too. I have too many vacation pictures to move and I'm "grandfathered" in till Oct. However, I've slowly been putting my stuff on dropbox, my husband pays for that anyway for his business, and if the price does not go down, I'll spend Sept moving the rest. This was a dumb move on their part, if they had just said $99 to begin with, I probably would have grimaced, but done it. The $399 was just insulting. Fan Boy1 and lizards2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artboy99 Posted January 25, 2018 Share Posted January 25, 2018 I did not receive an email like that. I would jump on it as I am already paying that much. I have been paying for my Photobucket accounts for over 2 years. They lose me at $400, $300 or whatever they were going to ask. At $100 a year I stay. Hope they contact me with that offer....something tells me they won't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skypinkblu Posted January 25, 2018 Share Posted January 25, 2018 Just now, Artboy99 said: I did not receive an email like that. I would jump on it as I am already paying that much. I have been paying for my Photobucket accounts for over 2 years. They lose me at $400, $300 or whatever they were going to ask. At $100 a year I stay. Hope they contact me with that offer....something tells me they won't. I haven't gotten it either, I'm just speculating. I've been paying for at least 7 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...