E-mail from Photopoint

['96explorereddiebauer]

Hey all!! Did you guys get an e-mail from PhotoPoint about their service?? They said that the service will no longer be free. Here's what the message said:

Dear Member,

PhotoPoint has dedicated its business to protecting your pictures and allowing you to share them easily with your family and friends. We thank you for making PhotoPoint the #1 online photography company.

To continue providing you the online photo experience you enjoy, we need to make several changes to our service in the coming weeks. Most significant is that, starting in mid-May, PhotoPoint.com will no longer be a free service, except for limited "trial" memberships.

We believe you deserve to get real value for your dollars. For the past six months we have conducted surveys and talked directly with members to learn what people want from an online photo company. We have built a full-service program based on value, not just storage, designed by users like you.

As a PhotoPoint Member, you will enjoy all of the current PhotoPoint features including secure photo albums and PicCheer photo postcards, plus:

Save 5% off all print orders for the year
Create and Save up to 5 SmashCast Movies - add music and graphics to your photos
Store up to 1000 photos*
Print at Home service - print photos at home like a pro
Enjoy express customer service
Receive our PhotoPointersTM Tutorial Series - valuable tips and tricks for improving your photography

For a limited time, you can join for an entire year for a one-time charge of $19.95, and we'll include 25 free prints (the prints alone are a $12 value). As a valued member, you also have the option of a special lower priced basic membership, which does not include prints, for just $9.95 for the year. These introductory offers will end April 30, 2001.

We want to thank you for your loyal support of PhotoPoint, and look forward to continuing to provide you with the best photo service on the Internet. If you have any questions, please visit our More Information page, or contact Customer Service.

I guess time to search for another free photo posting site.

[DarkFox1]

real value? how about real loss of customers?? I could upload my pictures to my ISP's web space.. I don't need them... I think we as customers should make it very clear to photopoint that we are not paying for their services and to begin charging will be threatening on their customer base.. like napster, charge=look elsewhere

[HIX]

You can't expect it to be free forever! They gotta turn a profit to even be there in the future. If you take the 9.95 one you are paying a whooping 3 cents a day.

[FlyAU]

Hehe...when you're a poor, broke college student, $9.95 is a lot of money. That'll buy 52 bricks of ramen noodles.

BTW, I don't use PhotoPoint...I get 40 MB from school to play around with.

['96explorereddiebauer]

Originally posted by FlyAU
Hehe...when you're a poor, broke college student, $9.95 is a lot of money. That'll buy 52 bricks of ramen noodles.

Ditto!

[HIX]

I am a college student too! I just have a full time job as well. And my wife is finally out in the working world now....so I guess I'm not poor. Just buy Coors light for a week instead of that froo-froo microbrew and you got the dough!

[FlyAU]

Originally posted by HIX
Just buy Coors light for a week instead of that froo-froo microbrew and you got the dough!

Dude, a man has got to have standards, lol...

[93exploder]

are u inplying that coors light is a cheap beer ? heck here in TX coors light is the good suff. If u want cheap you are talking keystone or something dog or icehouse, hahaha.