A Girl's Gotta Do....

[hat_plays_sims]

Well, despite the fact that I feel silly doing so, there is now a PayPal tip jar in my first sticky post. Just click here and scroll down a bit and there it is.

This is the second time in two months I've run out of Photobucket bandwidth, but the first time I've run out of bandwidth twelve days before it refreshes itself. (Actually, it's twelve days now; I think it was two weeks when it went kablooie.) If you have a dollar or two you feel you can spare to help me fund a Pro account to get my existing pictures back online (because even if I got a new photohost somewhere else, my current photos would stay down until the 18th), I'd dearly appreciate it.

I'd just fork over the three bucks for one month, but you can't un-check the 're-bill me automatically' option and that fills me with paranoia.

Comments

[mortire]

Have you tried goodbye-sun's suggestion to Pinketamine over at GoS?
"grab yourself a free 3 month upgrade to a pro account. you just have to upload an image, any generic image will do, to here: http://gs0001.photobucket.com/groups/0001/NCFRP6HPK9/. Once it activates you can check your stats and see what images are getting the most views, and if there are any images that are being hotlinked on odd sites, since it will show you any sites your images are getting viewed from.

Once your 3 months is up, just google something like "free photobucket upgrade 3 month" and you can probably find another promotion going on. "

[hat_plays_sims]

In fact I have, and the promotion seems to be done-- or at least my pic has been sitting there in moderation for several days, and everything I've seen on Google searches says the turnaround should be fairly quick. I may try a different pic, but the group says 'this tax season,' and it's June, not April. (There are other 'free Photobucket Pro for a year!' promotions, but they all seem to involve me forking over my RL name, address, and credit card number to some third-party site... and I'd rather just pay Photobucket for it.)

[mortire]

What a pity.
Then I wish you good luck in your quest for a more stable Photobucket! ;)