So every year or so i would sometime log into my photobucket account to relieve the old memories. Until recently, they got greedy and now they only support paid accounts. Really low of them to force me to sign up and pay just to relieve those old memories. I would give zero star if I could.
Used this when it was a FREE service back when I was 13-15ish in 2007-2009.
Received an email that they are now withholding personal images until they receive payment. They are also not allowing the user to delete images on their database without payment. SCUM of a company.
I read in another review about a class action lawsuit, I HOPE this happens. Absolutely disgusting company with NO morals or regard for the user.
Terrible business practices! For years I stored precious work photos on Photo Bucket. Nearly 400 pics. Then one day without telling anybody they change there policy in the dead of night as it were and started charging for their services. The catch is... you can't have your property/Pics back or take them off our site (Download to your computer) unless you PAY US! I don't deal with domestic terrorist. I don't pay ransoms. You want my pics? You GOT THEM! DOWN WITH PHOTO BUCKET!
It's a shame that photobucket has gone down the subscription route in this way. Those of us that have uploaded thousands of photos over the years are now trash out of luck accessing those photos. They've been locked away unless you buy a subscription. It's anti-consumer and a scummy practice.
Terrible business, you kept my photos without my consend and i can not access to it at all unless i pay you for account assess. How rude is this? Sponsor please stay away with this company. Once you not pay them, they will lock you out like my account.
Back when photobucket started they tried very hard to sell me on their free photo storage service. Being a pro ohotographer I decuded to give them a shot and i uploaded my complete portfolio which included many music stars. After not logging on for about a year they completely deleted my hundreds of hours of work. Many of these stored images were recently lost to a hard drive failure and i couldnt be more disgusted that photobucket deleted my portfolio without a warning. I regret using this company big time! They have affected my life in a hugely negative way because i actually believed my photos would be safe with them. I have written to the company and they say NOTHING can be recovered. & after 15 years or so... what a piece of crap company! Run!
Worst hosting service ever. They have held my photos hostage for YEARS and refuse to let me download them without paying their fees. Even when I DID purchase their hosting services, I was still unable to download or move my photos and all of the promised "features" were horrible and half of them didn't work at all (analytics).
A decade or so ago, Photobucket was one of the top image hosting sites to be anle to share images on various websites. Eventually they stopped allowing hosted image to be viewed outside of Photobucket'a website unless you paid money for a prwmoum account. Now they have even lowered the ampunt of free storage you get. I haven't uploaded to Photobucket in years yet I get regular emails now, saying I need to pay them money or delete my account as I am over my storage limit. They can delete it themselves if they're going to be so greedy.
If your not baby sitting it, it logs you out and resets, I had 8000 pictures it said I had 5000 left, then this morning it went back to 7500. People need to do better with these programs we live in a fast past society I should not have to state st my phone all day waiting for pictures to download. Such a waste of time I hate baby sitting
Im again shocked at how PB is pushing to get more money from us I hardly use it anymore. The site has been having lots of trouble with features not working. Images being removed from your web sites. And no way to contact them works.
PRO account claims no advertising, but I am blanketed with pop-up ad every time I try to get on.
"it is an internal promotion" support tells me. Don't play semantic games. Photobucket has the kiss of its parent corporation, News Corp (Fox News) all over it when it comes to unethical.
I will personally pop a champagne cork when these greedy bastards go out of business. $400 per year?! You have GOT to be kidding me. This attempt at robbery and extortion has ruined literally thousands of forums -- which cannot be repaired. Screw these people! F
Years of helping people with images across many forums gone overnight. Hijacked and held for ransom. Pay or nobody sees your photos. I'll be honest, it would not have bothered me so much if they actually made it reasonable cost but to shut it down and demand a ridiculous amount to use was absurd. Then to top it off the ability to pull your photos off their site does not work so you have to download one by one. After 4 hours I was able to recover 1201 photos. Closed my account and moved on. Here's to hoping Photobucket closes its doors forever. Wishing them the worst.
Suck isn't a strong enough word... blackmail is a great word... our pictures are hosted for UC Davis's children's cancer center... keep it I have the originals... only hurting those in need with your greed. Poor business plan... idiots at the helm.
Photobucket.com was unbearable for quite some time, but they appear to have listened to their users' complaints and cut back on the ads that were blocking important content. I'm still using the site for free and it's a lot better now. If they leave it this way, I'll stick around.
I've had it with their ads and poor performance. Hopefully I can download my 2600+ pics to a better hosting site. Time to move on. Don't get started with them.
Photobucket, oh what can I say about you? Besides how I instinctively know when an image I click on the internet is your site, because you force the users into your horrible UI and ruin the resolution, not much. You used to provide a decent uploading spot, but your interface and HORRIBLE sluggishness even on my overpowered gaming rig is unacceptable. It's pretty bad when I know an image is from photobucket before anything ever loads. Brand recognition in the worst way possible. Please, stop existing. Stop showing up for work. Stop being something people still sadly use and don't realize they're punishing the rest of us. Go away forever.
What a miserable website. Words can not accurately express how pissed off I am about this garbage place. The website is clogged to the brim with huge ads, overly complicated support and help pages with virtually no information that is useful. Album links will randomly stop working on pages, have to constantly log out and log back in.
Like so many online start ups, Photobucket started out like gangbusters. It was THE site for online photo albums and image hosting. I absolutely loved it... and relied upon it. Five stars back then.
Now it has hopped on the "Gimmick and Greed Train"... imposing too many demands upon its users with too many loading and function complications.
I cannot even get into my old albums and collections.
One star now.
But once again for old time's sake I am averaging these scores for a rating of three stars.
Photobucket, get your act together, darling.
Okay there was something seriously wrong with Photobucket. It was slow, clunky, and images kept disappearing and re-appearing. However, I contacted them and they told me to log into their new site. I did, and it looks much better and seems responsive enough. (My old rating was a 1 star, but I am editing it now to 5 stars because they obviously put in some effort to make this site work again)
I am unsure whether it isn't compatible with Google Plus, but everytime I use it it times out, when I manage to get photos up there, it won't allow me to manually order them in story form, keeps going back to the original order. I am ready to take all my many photos out of photobucket and put them elsewhere.
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Photobucket has a rating of 1.2 stars from 211 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with Photobucket most frequently mention 3rd party, customer service and free account. Photobucket ranks 88th among Photo Sharing sites.
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