PhotobucketReviews 211

Worst internet CEO ever John Corpus changed terms for 100 million registered users from free third-party linking to $400 dollars per year. I was one of those registered users, who frequented educational and Do-It Yourself (DIY) sites, where many people donated their efforts and shared their knowledge, now graveyards of broken links, without any grandfather clause for all of that content. Breach of faith and broken promises does not make for a profitable company. Now the site is full of ad-ware and spyware, stay away,

They say I had this Photobucket for a year. I had no idea... it's not on my computer.
Without any notice. No email... nothing... they renewed for $99.99. Although I called within a few weeks, definitely not 30 days... to tell them I did not have it, did not use it or did not want it, they said NO REFUNDS! NONE. Regardless! How do they get away with such abuse! At least they could let you know a payment was coming up. Nothing! I have no need for them as I use Shutterfly.

I've done hundreds of business transactions since 1996 for online internet products and services and I will state, beyond a shadow of doubt, Photobucket is the worst business I have ever dealt with. I purchased a yearly paid membership to get rid of the infestation of advertisements that displayed on the "free" version. Then I uploaded photos to share with friends and family, only to find out that now that they were being bombarded with advertisements unless they too purchased a membership! Less than 24 hours after purchasing the membership, I contacted Photobucket to cancel my membership and they said "Nope. Can't do it. You're on the hook for the full year, and THEN we will downgrade your membership back to the "free" membership". Well guess what? A year later and I found they auto-charged my PayPal account again for another year! And when I tried to cancel it, I got pretty much the same message! I have had to put a stop to future payments via my PayPal account, not my Photo-$#*!-it account as I don't trust them. Absolutely crooked and moralless company that should be shut down.

I used to take pictures of Cannabis buds and post them on my photobucket to share with friends and on one forum. I started doing this in around 2009. I had around 100 photos in my "budshots" album by 2016. Photobucket changed their terms of service without notifying anyone and now my photos are considered "objectionable content". I didn't have these backed up anywhere else because I thought they were safe on my photobucket. They say if I want them back I have to get a member of law enforcement to contact them. I told them that they were being petty and that it is a waste of law enforcement time and that they should just let me download all my photos and delete the album from their site. They wouldn't have it and say I need to contact a member of law enforcement for a court subpoena.

Their TOS doesn't define what is deemed "objectionable content" so after 6+ years of hosting my photos someone decided that they are against the TOS but the only response I get when trying to retrieve them is that they are "objectionable content". I told them what is deemed objectionable content is a matter of personal belief and opinion, and i can still find thousands of other cannabis photos on their site.

I just want my photos back and I will never use this horrible site. It's terribly slow and full of ads compared to when I made the account to.

Photobucket forces their logo on my old photo and then demands money if you want your picture back. Basically holding my photo hostage for a ransom. And not just a lttle bit of money, more like $400. They could have gone about this a number of different and better ways, but they chose to blindside people and their property with a seemingly unbreakable link to their spam. I guess I will have to find my original photo before I uploaded it to their godawful, ad-polluted site. This company was cool for 5 minutes many years ago and I probably would have paid money back then, but now you can forget it. They will never get one penny from me. There are so many other great alternatives now. This is a shameful bunch of scoundrels. Hope they go under.

The decision to rape every one of your customers using your site for 3rd party hosting only makes sense if 1) you are are stupid, malicious, psychotic, etc, 2) it was done intentionally to drive all those customers and their photos off your storage systems, or 3) both. My bet is on 3). You were too stupid and unimaginative to figure out to make money from your 3rd party hosting customers, so you maliciously tried to drive them all away. My guess is that you concocted this asinine plan because you could not legally just delete everyone's content. You had to make everyone remove their photos voluntarily and delete their accounts. Way to lead with your d! Ck.