Dishonest, sneaky company. Avoid them for your cherished photos and for the hosting of any images! They change their terms with little warning and extort money out of people. AVOID! They couldn't care less anyway.
Along with your new business approach, your new slogan should be "Give us your money or we'll delete everything. Make sure to log in once a week or we'll delete everything."
I would love to give this website more then two stars but I couldn't. I'll explain why below:
The website is fantastic in general. Great picture quality and would be a fantastic way to share my photos with friends, and even the world!
The fact is the website is so slow and puts me off. I have a good quality and fast home connection, but this website seems to slow my connection down. Further to this, I cannot put photos up onto the website when others are on their computers as their connection disconnects when I put some photos up. Lastly, it takes an average 10 minutes for every 15 photos.
I have been using photobucket for years (5+) and loved it. It was easy to use and I hosted many pictures on it from my business. Now, the photobucket site is slow, continually plagued by pop-up adds AND they want you to pay $399 to host images 3rd party. Theyre garbage and Im not using the site again. Stay away from it and invest money other places.
Hi,
I've enjoyed free use of Photobucket since 2010 but I've suddenly received a most unwelcome email demanding $399 for further use.
I've saved Photobucket the hassle of deleting my pictures; I've just deleted my Photobucket account.
Many thanks Photobucket for the seven years of use but I'm out of here.
Kind regards, Colin.
I registered on this site today. I thought it could be better than DeviantArt, but it looks like I was wrong. I once uploaded some photos and I wanted to edit the title and description, but it looks like there's no option for that. And also, the site is so damn slow. And it's impossible to log out. That's about it.
PhotoBucket - YOU SUCK! It's bad enough your site is so loaded with pop up ads that it's next to impossible to do anything on your site - now you want to charge to use it? PhotoBucket has gone down the sewer as a totally worthless piece crap site! You can put your $400 a year where the sun don't shine! RIPOFF's! Screw You!
This use to be one of the best sites for editing and viewing photos. Now it's one of the worst. Takes forever to upload... errors and site troubles make it very difficult to use. Like i use it for http codes. But the site is having trouble. Why should i pick another site because i paid money to use this one... so as a customer i should be able to use it anytime i want without interruption. So photobucket get your acts together. I paid for this service or refund my money back
Ransoming my photos! I lost a computer and knew I had the photos saved, but cannot get them without crap on them. And my website, which is mostly pictures for education and learning is now down because of it as well. I needed those photos to recreate it without photobucket and still cannot!
I have been a member of Photobucket since 2004 and have a few accounts with them. Over the last few years though, I have not been pleased. Website is very laggy. I have a custom built computer with a high speed processor and Photobucket has froze and locked up my computer twice in the last hour. I am currently trying to get everything off my accounts and closing them permanently and going with another service. 13 years and I just can't deal with it anymore.
I have been with PB since 2004 & i aint being blackmailed to get my pics back... i am not over the limit & knowhere near it. Yes i had more than 250 pics & vids on there. But knowhere near over the limit. MONEY. MONEY. MONEY that is all people want nowadays. Well there not having mine. I have deleted my PB account today. They can all go & kiss my hairy crack..
This site is absolute garbage... I have been (unfortunately) using this site for a few years for forums. (3rd party hosting) I upload pictures and then use their converter to upload it directly onto a forum post. Despite the absolute FLOOD of Ad's on their website and horribly sluggish speed to do anything, I still used their site just because it was the first site I happened to click on that offered this feature (many MANY better options out there now)... Now they have switched things up and kicked all of their users off that use their site for this feature. So now... its a super $#*!ty image sharing site that you have to pay for... Good luck with that business model... Have fun sliding down to the bottom of the barrel of image sharing sites... Whoever runs this place is a moron...
If you value your images, your time & your pc-
Don't use this site. I was hit with a barrage of
Malicious pop-ups on Photobucket & when I
Tried to download my albums, I got even more.
I deleted my account, but I lost all my images
Because the pop-ups prevented me from taking
Them with me.
Awful took me days to download 10 years for photos from various projects. I would never pay that 200$ a year for 3rd party hosting are you nuts? Thats is 150 dollars a year more than google drive and 200$ a year more than FLICKR, Adios Photobucket!
Thinking I was purchasing rights to 3rd party hosting for $59.99 I find out this is only for storage. Requested a refund - no such thing. STAY AWAY! Lots of other sites that do 3rd party hosting for FREE.
They suddenly not longer allow 3rd party embedding except when you pay a fortune. I was a paying customer for years, and suddenly I had to pay 15 times the amount to receive the same 'service'. I think not.
Listen, I've always known that Photoshop wasn't the greatest, but when I tried to use a picture on another site it just told me I need to upgrade for $399 PER YEAR just to use these pictures on other sites. This isn't image hosting, it's a scam. Besides that fact, the site is out of control with pop-up advertising that you constantly have to clear off your screen and is incredibly slow. Don't even bother, there are many other sites that are faster, less spammy and don't expect money out of your pockets just to host a picture.
It is soooooo slow
I want to download my albums to my computer. I have to do each photo individually! I have been doing this for about 72 hours all together. I have only gotten to page 4 of 66.
Go to google photo!
After YEARS of being a free account customer they changed their storage limit. They also took away the ability to download your albums except for 1 photo at a time. My options are PAY to keep my photos there, Don't pay and loose the 300% of my photos that are over their new limit. I have over 1000 pictures there so downloading the 1 at a time is out of the question. EXTORTION is the only name that fits what they are doing. NO Stars it what they should be rated.
I have many students that rely on the images that I have uploaded to Photobucket. Now they want $400 for those students to be able to see my images. Infuriating. A lot of work and preparation went into these 3rd party websites on which I posted the images. That is a lot of time I can never get back. Avoid this website at all costs.
Answer: Pay to keep your photos there or lose 2/3 of them, Taken away the option of bulk download which means download 1 photo at a time of 1000's of photos and do it before photobucket deletes them all because rule changes put you over their new limit. Extortion.
Answer: Because it does. They make you click around madly to get out of the "pay us money" options just to get to your library, and then they force ads... 19 of them per page... and won't allow mass downloads.
Answer: I don't recommend using the mobile site, as phones (especially Apple), adblockers don't work and still flood up your screen. My worse experience is the m@ms ads that take over the screen and reappears every time you refresh or go to another page. TV commercials is better than this.
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.