Photobucket

The following is a message I sent to Photobucket.

"Well, after receiving an e-mail telling me my account expired, I thought it was odd. I was on a monthly $2.99 plan as I have been for at least 5 years.

So, I logged in to discover that you (Photobucket) once again, very covertly, cancelled all current subscriptions, raised prices, and mandated a yearly paid in full amount. Mind you, I discovered this after 30 minutes of wading through a mine-field of FULL PAGE click-bait ads that quite LITERALLY make your site absolutely unusable. I guess someone thought this was a genius way to force people into paying. That's actually just extortion.

I don't mind paying for the service, really. I've done it for many years. Photobucket, have some class. Be professional and go to a membership only format with a clean inviting welcome mat. Right now you (Photobucket) are just garbage using extortion as a sales tactic.

Unbelievable. Unprofessional. Absolutely unacceptable.

Needless to say, you will not be receiving another payment from me in any amount.

By the way, (and I'm sure you (Photobucket) already know) I'm not alone in this opinion. Good luck retaining customers, let alone attracting new ones."

Greedy company wanting $400 a year what a con. Closed my Account going elsewhere. Obviously the constant bombardment of ads was not enough money for them

When Photobucket realises they're stuffed, they'll come grovelling back with fresh promises. Will the public forgive them? We may, just so our pics can be shared again, but we won't forget.

Was a good site once, even though there were too many ads. Now I cannot access my own photos without paying - I call this theft, or unjustifiable demand for money with menaces.

Not just me, but anyone using this for picture sharing on forums, all destroyed overnight, what a pile of crap Photobucket now is, I will run my own streaming server from now on...

There service doesn't work. There is no chat or phone support. Nightmare experience and they won't refund my $ when I tried to cancel right after trying them out (in less than a day!)

The epitome of "Extortion"!
The once about a time, best code generator site
Now you have to fight for everything, just to retrieve your old photos
Got an account pre-2008 in good faith, now they hold my Video & Photos Hostage
Would love to see a class action lawsuit against them, this is opposite of love thy neighbor
I'm so upset losing so many memories I now can't share, w/o paying the ransom, they can go to Hell
(This review sugarcoated to keep it PG) ~ God bless you all who are victims too, and refuse to pay the ransom

Thieves trying to extort money from people hijacking and stealing their pictures. They will end up like Myspace, goodbye greedy lil people. Your time has come now you need to go

Watch all of their loyal users leave when asked to pay $400!

Other free hosting services elsewhere that run much nicer interfaces, less ads too. Their mobile app was shocking too.

I would have rated this company a zero but that wasn't an option. I've used photobucket for years and never had a problem until they upgraded their terms a while ago neglecting to inform users that what was once a free forum to access pictures uploaded to photobucket would now require a $399 annual fee. I may have lost some of my pictures but I refuse to pay this absolutely ludaccrious fee to this capitalistic scumbag of a company.

At one point, I enjoyed hosting my photos here, because it was an easy free site that I could use easily to save my photos and post them elsewhere. Then they decided to start pushing their paid accounts - fair enough - but then got to the point where they decided to severely chop back what you could host for free, and hold the photos hostage more or less until/unless you do upgrade.

I am now constantly getting emails about "Upgrade or manage your photos or maybe lose them! (This has been for multiple years now" and yet their interface to actually DO any sort of managing is just... terrible. You have to download any photos you want to keep one by one and then delete them. Without any actual, you know, clear thumbnail/image so you can really see what it is and make sure you need it or want to save it. I have waded through downloading some but I had enough photos saved here that I just haven't yet been able to deal with all the photos, and it's no end irritating to have them attempt to hold my own photos against me like this.

Just... avoid.

I have a large personal website and used Photobuckets 'Pro' paid plan to display a thumb on my website and then if a site visitor wanted to view a higher resolution photos. All they had to do was click it. Like here on earth after last century (2000's).

I only update the site with 1 massive update per year. And went to update it and was shocked! To find thet ALL of my photos had been reduced in size WITH oooohhhh by the way. A new photobucket introduced file-name!

If you want your photos fcuked with... by all mean. Choose Photobucket!

I was a customer since Photobucket first started online and I had no issues with my account for many years. One day I went to log into my account and got a message that they no longer offered free accounts and if I wanted my photos I had to purchase a plan for $5. This is ridiculous! I was a customer for many years and this is how they treat you for being a loyal long time customer? I paid the $5 just so I could access my photos and get them removed from their website and then I got another message saying I was over my allowed storage limit and I would have to pay more money to upgrade to a higher plan if I wanted to see my photos. Are you kidding me? I reluctantly paid to upgrade my account. When I was finally allowed to log into my account a lot of my photos were missing! I contacted Photobucket about this issue and they were no help at all. They said that all of my photos were in my account and they do not delete photos from customer's accounts unless they're asked to do so upon deletion of the account. Where did my photos go then?! Who knows. I never got my photos back. So they took my photos hostage and made me pay twice and still didn't let me have access to all of MY photos. This is not a good way to treat your customers! I would stay away from Photobucket for storing photos because they may decide to take them hostage or your photos may disappear and you'll never see them again.

This was my first time using photobucket. The worst worst experience ever. I would not use them ever nor I would I recommend them to anyone. I placed my order on Dec 10 and it stated guaranteed delivery 12/23 if your order is placed before 12/11. I then received a confirmation email and an email stating my shipment was on its way with one tracking number for both items. I received one of my items on time as guaranteed, however the second item didn't arrive.
Then I find out that photobucket only has an email method for customer service inquiries, you cannot speak to anyone. The customer service was horrible, it was pathetic and not helpful at all. This is the response I got from several personnel "we are sorry" "unfortunately delays happen"?
They then sent me a completely different tracking number after that for the item that didn't arrive and when I track it, for 5 days it's been in transit in Denver? I sent photobucket pictures and attachments with the whole guaranteed delivery note on their website when I made the purchase, no one addressed that. All I got was "sorry"
They are very misleading, poor customer feedback and service and the worst part you can't even speak to anyone, it's like they hide behind email communication. I would have rated them a zero if I could, they don't even deserve a 1 star. It's also time consuming placing the order because of all the pop up ads and delays with uploading and the page freezes the pop ups are so annoying just like the customer service.
They suck period.

Please for the love of god don't sign up with Photobucket. Their ap on your phone will automatically delete photos from your phone! When you ask for you own property back, they tell you you can get them back if you download them 1 image at a time. WORST COMPANY EVER! I lost an entire YEARS worth of photos because of this crappy company. PLEASE, PLEASE don't do business with these crooks!

I can genuinely understand that hosting images costs a huge amount in money and resources, and with so many people using ad-blockers, it's only a matter of time before there is no free image hosting left. However, the way they have gone about changing their policy is disgusting.

Oh yes, you can host images, with them, but if you want to show these images around the internet, i. E. forums, blogs etc., then you now have to pay a ridiculous amount of money to do this. Most people cannot afford to pay so much, and because of this, thousands of websites now appear 'broken' and ugly, and no matter how much they claim that we all had notice of this change, I can't find anyone, including myself, that actually received this notice.

PhotoBucket was always my image host of choice, and I had a feeling that they would change to pay only, but as I was an ad-free member, I didn't think this would affect me. Wrong! My images will only be available for third-party hosting until next year, so all the money and loyalty they've had from me over the years appear to mean very little to them.

The only saving grace is that I will have time to download my images and replace them wherever I have them posted, but this is time-consuming and irritating.

When my images go, so will I!

Ordered prints 3 weeks ago for my aunt in nursing home. Still waiting. They responded to my concern by telling.me to contact them again in 14 days if I had not received them. HORRIBLE.

After using them to post in multiple forums hundreds of images, they have suddenly locked the door and demanded $400 for the key. Screw them!

Major inconvenience but they can and will be replaced.

One month late and they are threatening to delete my account? I'm deleting my account myself and will no longer do business with photobucket. Thank you.

They are a bunch of idiots at photobucket. I used them for a year. After renewing my account, they Cancelled my account and kept the money. They look thru your pictures and then cancel you.

Unless you got dooped into paying $400 A YEAR, NOTHING works except the intrusive advertisements and pop ups I have tried several times since they pulled that scam to download and migrate to a better company... I tried using Firefox, IE, Chrome... I might even try other things to get my pictures BACK... that they are currently holding hostage.

If you are not one of these idiots who rate Photo Bucket more than one star, read this: I think it is a good idea to bring a lawsuit against these morons who own the site!

The once respected PhotoBucket has betrayed millions. Photobucket used to be free but now charges users $400 for access to their images. Images not extorted are broken. Despicable.