PhotobucketReviews 211

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 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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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!

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.

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.

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!