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What can you expect? Bezos wants immediate payment but as a "commoner", you have to wait for your money in return. I don't do Amazon at all and no Evil bay anymore.Amazon sent me an email asking me to update my payment method as it had been declined. Yet when I checked my bank statement the charge had gone through, twice. Called Amazon (was amazed I got to speak to a human), they said it was an error on their end and they would refund the second charge IN 5 business days!
All the more reason not to use Photo butt f*&^.PhotoBucket has just changed their terms of service. Basically they lowered the free space threshold to 2Gigs, and turned off 3rd party hosting links. Unless you buy a $399.00 USD per year plan, paid in full, you cannot link to your hosted images any longer and existing links will be replaced by a warning. They are gradually moving through their user base and applying this limit so if you have not yet been impacted you should download any pictures you have that are only available to you there. This has already impacted this forum, have a look through some of the recent build threads and you will see what I mean.
The worst part is, if you previously qualified for a free account, but under the lowered limit of 2Gig you no longer do, you will find your account suspended until you pay for a paid plan. In essence they are holding your pictures hostage.
I agree, and I don't. However Imagr and Flickr have also amended their terms of service to discourage hot linking. And while I don't blame them, very few forums other than this one allow direct picture uploads. Imagr flat out prohibits it, and Flickr has some conditions that are gray around it. Most other image hosting services free or not are gradually transitioning away from allowing 3rd party linking unless you pay for it. Not something I have an issue with other than it is going to render potentially millions of past posts useless. As the illustrations and pictures disappear from forums and web sites a lot of valuable content will be lost. A sign of the times I suppose. Personally I use Flickr at the moment but am transitioning to my own domain which costs less than any of the paid image hosting plans per year.All the more reason not to use Photo butt f*&^.