View Full Version : Flickr took photos hostage
Bioshock_FTW!
11-01-2007, 10:14 AM
I just wanted to post here to see if anyone else has had problems after moving their Yahoo photo album through their little migration thing into Flickr. My girlfriend did this and they apparently signed her up, without notice, for their Flickr Pro account and now that it's expired, she can't get her pictures back until she pays $25 for the year.
You've run into one of the limits of a free account. When you moved from Yahoo! Photos, you were given a free trial of Flickr pro - our premium account that comes with unlimited storage and uploads. But, that's expired.
If you are ready, you can purchase pro for just $24.95 a year. To be sure, none of your pictures have been deleted, and they'll all come back after you upgrade.
This totally blows and it seems illegal. Has anyone else run into this and come out successfully? We just need to get the pictures and put them elsewhere. Not going to yield to Flickr and pay for their bull**** hosting service that would allow something like this to happen.
That's very underhanded of them. Is there no free package she can downgrade to?
Bioshock_FTW!
11-01-2007, 10:40 AM
Well the message came up while she was uploading some new photos. She had to delete those photos to be able to get at her other ones, and she was only able to grab maybe 50% of them after doing that. Now she has to delete those 50% she grabbed to be able to access the other 50%.
This is the lowest thing I've ever seen a hosting site do.
yogibbear
11-01-2007, 10:44 AM
Well the message came up while she was uploading some new photos. She had to delete those photos to be able to get at her other ones, and she was only able to grab maybe 50% of them after doing that. Now she has to delete those 50% she grabbed to be able to access the other 50%.
This is the lowest thing I've ever seen a hosting site do.
Comes with the territory...
Mobile ads... internet thingies... all generally very dodge.
I'm not surprised yahoo/flickr both sound like spam waiting to get deleted from my email account.
Bioshock_FTW!
11-01-2007, 10:47 AM
No it doesn't come with the territory. Names like Yahoo, Google, Microsoft even, these tend to be .com's most can trust. This is the worst I've seen, the most underhanded and downright greedy I've ever seen a major hosting site be.
yogibbear
11-01-2007, 11:21 AM
No it doesn't come with the territory. Names like Yahoo, Google, Microsoft even, these tend to be .com's most can trust. This is the worst I've seen, the most underhanded and downright greedy I've ever seen a major hosting site be.
Seriously why not just keep your photos on an external hdd or something? They're not that expensive anymore.
Bioshock_FTW!
11-01-2007, 11:26 AM
This is my girlfriends stuff. She had it all originally happily stored on Yahoo! photos, but once Yahoo bought Flickr, her Yahoo photo account went dead; and she was forced to migrate the photos to Flickr. In doing so, they automatically (without prompt, trust me, I helped her do it), deposited these photos into a Flickr Pro account for a free trial. There was no other option for a free acount.
She has most of them stored on her HDD's throughout 2 laptops but there's still a handful of really important pictures she's kept nowhere but on that yahoo account for the past 5 years. She wasn't able to get to those.
She's buying a 4 gig flash drive to put everything on in hopes this is never a concern again.
BioShockWins
11-01-2007, 04:34 PM
A four gig will probably be OK.
I don't know how many photos you have though...
audiosnag
11-01-2007, 05:39 PM
No it doesn't come with the territory. Names like Yahoo, Google, Microsoft even, these tend to be .com's most can trust. This is the worst I've seen, the most underhanded and downright greedy I've ever seen a major hosting site be.
agreed.
Just cause it's the internet, it doesn't give large well known companies the right to screw you over when you're not looking and just go "oh sorry..but hey thats the interent" *shrug*
I know lots of people who store photo's online, its a good place to keep em and theres a lot of forums where you have to get your images from an online source. This is pretty low.