PhotobucketReviews 211

I paid $99 to be a member of Photobucket. The next day I noticed that I was unable to post my pictures on travel web sites and that they wanted $400 for that service.

So I immediately contacted them and said I wanted to cancel and get a refund. It took them 10 days to clarify that I could not cancel though they were useless.

I had to dispute the charge and will complain to the Colorado Attorney General's office, as they are in Denver. A very dishonest company.

I rarely ever write reviews, but I just felt I had to try and contribute in some way here. Photobucket is one of those sites that seem to actively try to make the internet worse. They're more than happy to let pictures hosted with them turn up in google image search, but when you try to view them they want your money. The image will turn up with an image size that's basically a lie, because there's no way you can actually view it at that size, all you get is a tiny, pixelated preview.

For the good of the internet, please stop using, visiting og paying Photobucket, it's the only way to make this problem disappear.

So because your site is old, slow, outdated, and therefore you're losing your customer base, you decide to remove 3rd party hosting and try to charge $399 for the site that's always been free?! First off, the site is so tastelessly infested with pop-ups and ads that it's entirely unusable without an ad blocker, and still lags way beyond what's acceptable. Nobody is going to pay that kind of exorbitant price after your site has been steadily declining for so long and there are countless other free photo sharing sites like imgur. Lastly, and this is the biggest issue, you have singlehandedly ruined YEARS upon years of invaluable forum content, sabotaging the entire internet because you went down a sore loser. $#*! you.

Yep- if the CEO-John Corpus- had any marketing skills- wouldn't have tried to do a money grab by blackmail right before they go OOB... What a rocket scientist-he put bombarding pop-ups that locked up anytime you tried to access your pictures and then trying to sell 'canvas" prints- are you kidding me?. If there was any signs of intelligence at Photobucket - they would have came out April 2nd with a REASONABLE $4.99/mo and maybe $9.99/mo if you went over a certain amount. But the damage is done- no turning back- would you trust sending them $400 -No way- as they will be OOB in less than 6 months. And left a lot of electronic waste- as so much information will be lost. Welcome to the electronic age...

Photobucket's new policy has ruined years and years of useful forum posts. Without the pictures, these archived posts are completely useless and cause me to have to pay other companies (not photo sharing companies) and people for things I previously could research on my own. And no amount of money I pay to restore MY third photo sharing abilities will bring back the literally hundreds of posts that I've already found stripped of their usefulness in forum searches. Talk about a $#*! move.

Photobucket went from useful to suddenly deciding that they won't allow hot sharing (exactly what I used to use them for) unless I pay them. This is the single stupidest move they could have made. Way to piss off literally_all_ of your users.

Nope. Done. So many other far superior options available.

PhotoBucket used to be a viable option for Internet users to get their images hosted somewhere for the purpose of linking them between different forums and online communities. Not only this, but they were an easy-to-use way to store photos and share them with friends and family. The company which has acquired the website over the years has decided that their lacking attempts to monetize the platform are not performing as well as they need and have blackmailed the entirety of their user base to pay $400 each year to continue doing what they have always been doing.

This wouldn't be much of an issue if it weren't for the simple fact that competing services are 99.9% cheaper than this. They are screwing over longstanding users of an already waning platform by essentially holding hostage billions of images found online and forcing people to pay to continue to have those seen online. Alternatives are insanely cheap and potentially free depending on what online services users already use. Some online storage services offer this as a free perk while others have some benefits available that are insanely cheap compared to Photobucket's hilariously off prices. No market research was done to make this decision; it shows.

This website and the services provided are not being managed by the same people that put in all of the effort to gain the good will of the community. It has been acquired at least twice that I know of, and therefore the service is no longer anywhere near what it used to be.