If u have another email address sign up for another photobucket account. Then start free.

You must have some pics Ken. We use photobucket for pics in all kinds of craigslist/backpage etc advertising including slideshows.

its not the number of pix i have stored...

its the number of times PB must send the info to GW across the bandwidth ... its how many time we look at them ... its how many time the host must generate the pix for viewing ...

grandma can only look at pix of the kids on facebook so many times... lol

ken

You still have the same I.P. address...it wouldn't work.

How many photos do you have in your account? You need to start deleting some of them to get under their quota. How many years have you been using them for free? Go pro and retain everything you have saved. Or go on the cheap and delete. If you want to play you have to pay. Freebies are hard to find.

I can't believe you disappear for the cost of a 25 dollar conifer. I think you would end up in the looney bin.

"and trust me.. its really hard to complain about a FREE service with a straight face .... " how are you keeping a straight face?

I currently have 494 photos in my account and have only used up 3.9 account bandwith of free service.. You must have a 1200? If so I can see why they are kicking.

Please forgive me for being so hard on you. You know I don't mean what I say. LOL. I have got to come and see you some day. I will buy my own plane ticket and motel room and leave the Vette at home.

Dave

Why not sign up for different companies such as www.picturetrail.com... fill up that free account, then sign up for a 3rd company and fill up that free account, then rotate back to Photobucket and start anew.

Or reduce the pixel settings on your camera to start with.

To be honest, as much pictures as you post, $20 a year is not a bad deal.

Ken,
it's based on how many photos you post per month - you have 10GB of bandwidth to "spend."
What day of the month was your sign-up date? That's when your bandwidth alottment will reset.

Josh

Craigslist tracks IP addresses. We have become familiar with resetting the modem at work to obtain a new IP. Older modems and some cable connections can be reset electronically. Tough keeping up with the used mattresses stores who spam the place.

Dynamic IP cable is great but used to bump me from some yahoo chess and other online games like AAA.

Www.ipchicken.com will show your IP address. Unplug your modem, plug it back in and refresh to see if it changes.

FWIW with photobucket we rotate between four accounts and have not NOTICED any effects of using the same IP or all yahoo accounts

apparently.. from the notification.. my date is the 17th of the month ...

so we will see if we can squeak it out between now and then ....

i suppose if i just dont post anything new for a week or so.. it should work ... man that is going to be withdrawal ... for me ...

i love you guys.. but some of you seem to miss the point.. if i cant/wont buy a conifer for myself .. i aint spending the money to enable you all ....

for the future.. i may take daves clue in his posts .. and go with one pic per post or one pic of each plant .. instead of the multiple pix of one plant ...

i take my pix on the most ginormous camera setting for cropping purposes .... looking into PB's settings .. it appears i have it on the default/recommended size for uploading.. so perhaps if i move that smaller... the pic size will shrink ... using less width ... any comment on that idea???

i only have 224 pix in PB right now.. but that number is irrelevant ... its how many time you and i open the post and look at them .... and i am probably the worst.. since i open the post every time a reply comes in [probably dozens of time per day per post] ... its been hard to not open the posts repeatedly all day long to see what youse guys are commenting ... you do understand i have no other life.. lol ...

who knows .. i slaughtered the larix ... but i dont want to open that post ... pix on that some other day ...

oh well.. any other thoughts??? ... no pix in this post.. so i can open it any time.. lol ...

ken

Ken,
I think it's based on how many photos you post, not how many times a photo is viewed.
I could be mistaken, of course.

Josh

When you move your pictures from the camera memory card do you just dump them to a file and that's it? Or do you pass them all through say Picasa and export each one to say 1240 size for landscape or 800 for portrait and keep the original sized ones in a subfile called 'originals'? Pics also view better (in picasa viewer at least) if you click 1:1 and if you do that with the original it will balloon way out of the screen. On reduced ones it pops to a decent viewing size.

Oh, and check what the most popular photos you have are. Even the free version has stats on your top couple pics. If one is most often viewed on a site you have never gone to then someone has stolen your link.

Ken, I do understand your dilemma regarding the fees for photobucket. I do not use photobucket instead I use Shutterfly and love it. I will go through major withdrawals too if you can not post photos. I love seeing your photos and have gleaned quite a healthy 'Lust List' from seeing everyone's photos.

Perhaps you could set up another free acct. with another source and when you get close to your limit, upload photos to the other account and add use them until you can go back to photobucket without a fee.

Right now I don't have enough conifers to run into such a problem. LOL I think I would get booted off the forum if I sent the same dozen conifer photos for the next 6 months until I order new plants and receive them. LOL.

Good luck in finding a solution for your problem. FYI...Shutterfly is a very easy account to use. If you have questions on it let me know.

I can't confirm this but I've heard if you allow public viewing with various albums you won't have issues.

I pay photobucket, fairly happily because it's a service that I and others really use and enjoy. Of course I have uploaded and shared something like 4,500 photos in the two years I've been with them but for a few bucks a month, the price of an energy drink, I don't mind.

-Will

Whaas might be on to something, I seem to recall being able to click-through a "bandwidth exceeded" icon and see a pic.

Here's a link to a recent discussion on photobucket alternatives.

ps. if I see you posting another thread, I promise not to read it until the 17th! just kidding.

Here is a link that might be useful: photobucket alternatives