Photobucket

Photobucket removed their free service to thousands of forums in the past that ruined posts and the forums shut down.

Forget this useless company

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)

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.

I have purchased several canvas prints from Photobucket online. The results are amazing! Over the past year I have seven prints made. They have been of all sizes, from 10x10 to 16x20. The photos were all from my cellphone, and I am far from an expert photographer. Yet the results just blew me away! Every time I open a packaged print, I am stunned by the quality. These are like works of art! I have given many as gifts, and they were very well received. I can't say enough good things about the quality of work they do here! I plan to buy canvas prints every time they have a sale!

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.

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

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.

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!

Web site is crap. Can't download photos and they continue to charge you even after you cancel service! Scammers!

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).

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.

I was unable to access my paid account for almost 6 weeks earlier this year. It was finally restored and worked okay for a short while. For the last three days though, my images are "now you see them, now you don't". Photobucket is unreliable and and inconsistent and treat their customers in a shameful manner. In the "real" world, this business would not last 2 weeks. It's a damned shame and a sham and I feel like a fool for ever getting involved with these pirates. Run, don't walk away from these charlatans!

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.

They asked for your photos so they can sell them. Do not use photo bucket. They cannot be trusted. Stay clear or get burned

I was asked to pay $5.00 a month or $60.00 yearly to get my photos from 2012. Photos are not there.

I'm going to start with my most recent experience and work backwards; months after reaching out via email and having my account permanently deleted, they are now sending me emails about my (non-existent) account being over the storage limit and how I need to pay them to access my own photos. After having been a legitimate free service for many years, functionality began steadily declining at some point in the mid-late 2010's. Ads made it virtually unusable, and they got rid of a feature that allowed you to download multiple photos from your account to your device. A year or two ago, they notified long-time users who joined at a time where the storage limit for accounts was quite high that they were reducing the storage limit to 250 photos and users would have to download their photos before a certain date before they would delete photos that exceeded the storage limit. These crooks conveniently waited until after removing user's access to their own photos to reintroduce the multi-download feature. Many users complained in comments on ther Facebook ads that they had paid the ransom but still hadn't gotten all of their photos back, at least one of which their team responded to with a snide remark. They have also been hiding hundreds of comments speaking out against them on their posts. Fortunately for me, I took the time to go through my thousands of photos one by one and save them all individually, so I had no problem telling them to delete my account (they make that difficult too - there's no link to delete your account, you have to reach out via email and it took them nearly a month to confirm that my account was permanently removed). However, now they're back in my inbox still trying to extort me for money.

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.

Suddenly eradicates free accounts then cheerfully demands payment to reactivate... holding photos hostage is a dirty trick.

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.

My wife is not very techno-savvy but has a dance studio and takes lots of photos. A friend of hers tried to use photobucket to share some photos she took. My wife was simply overwhelmed with the complexity of getting onto photobucket: setting up the account, etc. She finally drove to the friend's house with a CD in her hand. I am a longtime (20 year) Linux user. I also could not manage to set up an account and download the files. I tried it on Linux, on our Mac, and on Windows 7. Nothing worked. And I don't think it is because I'm not computer literate. On my Mac, I filled out all the fields, but it kept telling me that I had not filled one of them out -- but would not say which one. I finally gave up as well. This household does not seem to be ready for Photobucket. If PB wants the over-50 crowd to use it, they will have to simplify things a lot and make it more robust.

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.

A convenient tool for placing images to forum pages (the ones that do not still support the function themselves). Could have a little less ads, those are annoying even with adblock or such.

PB used to be the PREMIERE image hosting site like 10 years ago. And it still operates like it's 2009. It is complete shet on mobile. It is complete shet on a desktop. Nothing on the site works correctly or consistently. I have a couple hundred photos hosted there. It's taken me 3 HOURS just to delete 80 of them because pb keeps randomly unselecting some and restoring whole pages of previously deleted pics. Why would anyone pay for that kinda crap?