flickr renewal

Mike.P said:
I wonder how they come up with the different discount amounts ...
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20%? That's a bit weird!

Same as above @AMcUK 17% do they make this up as they go along?
 
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Is 17% a VAT type tax anywhere significant?
 
the black fox said:
It’s really a case of knowing when to bite if you intend to carry on, at the end of the day if you take up there offer to stay PRO it works out at 74pence a week , for unlimited storage . Yet most here will think nothing of spending 3 to 4K on a camera body
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It works out 74 pence per week so that I can post my pictures here instead of having the site* host them. My 'unlimited' storage is about 1.2GB, which is a very small deal indeed. To *me* I value Flickr at £25 per year, although if I were offered the £33 deal I'd probably renew.

Pretty sure they're back to their games of seeing what the market will bear.

*I'd probably rather pay TP £33/year to have my images hosted here and embedded in a larger size than 1024 on the long side, possibly zoomable in the way Flickr's are.
 
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I think this is time for Flickr members who have images stored online with them to make sure they have another online/cloud backup should it all go Pete Tong?
 
ancient_mariner said:
It works out 74 pence per week so that I can post my pictures here instead of having the site* host them. My 'unlimited' storage is about 1.2GB, which is a very small deal indeed. To *me* I value Flickr at £25 per year, although if I were offered the £33 deal I'd probably renew.
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That's pretty much where I am too - I only upload at max 1920x1080.
I share(d) images at 2 other photography sites so Flickr was convenient to cross post but they all support direct uploading too.
At £25 I thought it was OK but I've shot next to nothing this year and uploaded even less.
So for me it's very poor value for money.

I was really hoping that when Smug Mug took Flickr on they'd re-invigorate it.
They talked a good game but from the increasingly desperate comms about money it looks like it was in a much worse state than they imagined.
The newer editorial stuff they've done isn't of much interest to me.
The competitions they ran was so unfocused I didn't really see any point in entering.
"Groups" is still in beta (!) and most of the ones I post to have zombie admins so I've had to block the soft porn posters and set the nudity filters.

If it works for you then all power to you.
 
Personally I don't need all of my photos stored by Flickr, having TB's of drives and Amazon Prime if I choose to use it (slow as it is) and with all the photography I will be doing in the forseeable future 1000 will be fine for linking here.
TBH once someone has seen the photo and maybe one or two likes or a rare comment or two it's "like yesterday's chip paper", nobody will give it a thought.
 
I had around 2,400 photos on Flickr and, of course, it wouldn't let me upload any new ones unless I upgraded to Pro and they wanted £55 so this morning, I deleted all but half a dozen photos. I no longer need Flickr Pro now, job done! :D
 
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I’ve not used Flickr for years... wasn’t sure it was even a thing still, after Yahoo! gave up on it.

I might log back in at some point and have a nosy, but it had even gone downhill in the latter years of my using it. All that sticks in memory is the incessant spam of “invites” and “awards” on photos trying to get you to view additional groups.
 
Could see these price hikes = pro account failings etc etc coming from a mile off!

Thats why(must be well over a year now) i was happy to download/save files from Flickr, reduce my free account images down below 1000, an carry on with the free account.
But it came to a point, where i couldnt really choose to delete any more of my "free account 1000"...........................................so this year, i started a fresh new free Flickr account(which made a lot of sense). New name, new email addy, new flickr account...yeah, Flickr works great for me! Im up to 296 images so far this year, so i reckon i have a few years yet, before i once again reach the 1000 limit...gee, what will i do then??..............................probably start up another free account i suppose!!

Free accounts work for me. ;)

Female Common Blue Butterfly (3rd brood). No cropping. by Tort Man, on Flickr

Female Adonis Blue Butterfly, on Harebell. No cropping. by Tort Man, on Flickr

Clouded Yellow Butterfly (male). No cropping. by Tort Man, on Flickr
 
Peter10d said:
My subscription expired nearly two weeks ago and I still haven't had any offers to renew. Maybe they have stopped with discounts :(
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Mine expires today, have you had any photos culled?
 
Peter10d said:
Not yet but I have less than 1000 photos and I thought that was maybe the allowance for a non pro?
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Ah yes, it is ... I have over 30,000 (most in 'Private' albums just for storage) so have been zipping & downloading.
 
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My account will expire before the end of the month, but I've not had any offers either. I just don't care enough for Flickr to renew at full price. If they do a black Friday deal then maybe.
 
ancient_mariner said:
My account will expire before the end of the month, but I've not had any offers either.
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These "discounts" do seem very random, don't they?
Both people and % wise
 
Hi photogramps,
Your Flickr Pro membership expired yesterday, and we want you back.

With a newly designed feed, exclusive deals on courses from world-renowned photographers, and lots more improvements on the way, now’s the time to make sure you’re here for all of it.

Get back the perks, stats, and unlimited storage your photos deserve for 30% off a Flickr Pro annual subscription.
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£39:12 offered.
 
https://www.flickr.com/account said:
Flickr Pros get two complimentary months ($20 value) of Adobe Creative Cloud Photography plan, the powerful package of editing tools including Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and Adobe Photoshop.
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I count this as a discount because I have an Adobe subscription and it reduces the annual cost of it.
 
Just paid for a full 1 year subscription on flickr for the 1st time. And I only have ~500 photos on it. Great platform, great film photography community. People are coming back. Really enjoying it at the moment personally. There is really nothing quite like it for the usage I do.
 
ancient_mariner said:
No value in it if you don't though.
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Of course, but I do, and I save about £20 every year at Adobe, just because of flickr. So I'm not waiting for them to offer me a discount.

I tried it once, let the subscription expire, but it didn't work, except that I didn't have a photo in 'Explore' for about half a year. Before that it was mostly once a month. :D

I don't care about 'Explore' anyway, but I just found it kind of funny.
 
lemo said:
I tried it once, let the subscription expire, but it didn't work, except that I didn't have a photo in 'Explore' for about half a year.
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I doubt that had anything to do with it.
Over the 12 years (and probably more than half as a Pro) I've been with them, I've never had an "Explored" image.
But then I don't pimp stuff around it's purely a hosting service for me.
 
Is Flickr the only hosting site that can link images to this forum? I let Flickr Pro lapse some time ago because I prefer to use 500px, but I don't think 500px lets you link in the same way.
 
Idlefrog said:
Is Flickr the only hosting site that can link images to this forum? I let Flickr Pro lapse some time ago because I prefer to use 500px, but I don't think 500px lets you link in the same way.
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You need the "BBcode" I've no idea if 500px has that option?
If not, you have the option of the free TP gallery space or directly attaching an image from your device
 
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Cobra said:
I doubt that had anything to do with it.
Over the 12 years (and probably more than half as a Pro) I've been with them, I've never had an "Explored" image.
But then I don't pimp stuff around it's purely a hosting service for me.
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is that sending you a message Chris :runaway::runaway::runaway::runaway: do you want some of my 300:LOL::LOL::LOL::LOL::LOL:
 
I have 20,000 photos on mine, dating back to when I first set my account up in 2007.

I upload all edited shots to it and use the Flickr App to download photos to whichever device I'm using to upload to Instagram, Facebook, forums etc. Grabbing the BB code directly from the app to add pics to forums makes life so easy.

Not sure if there is anything else out there that will do that for me so easily. Can access photos whilst anywhere in the world very quickly etc. I hope they hang in there because £50 a year for what I get out of it is a bargain.
 
I don’t feel as left out now! Just received an email from Flickr to come back to ‘Pro’ membership with a 25% discount off the first year back. I guess it part of a Black Friday promotion.
 
rob-nikon said:
I don’t feel as left out now! Just received an email from Flickr to come back to ‘Pro’ membership with a 25% discount off the first year back. I guess it part of a Black Friday promotion.
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Wonder if they'll make that generally available?
 
ancient_mariner said:
I'm sure they're struggling, but putting prices up will only drive money away.
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I can’t remember what they had put it up to when I left but there was a lower cost for existing pro users. I guess that period has come to an end and all users are seeing price rises. I guess from their point of view is it easier to get more users (say 1000) paying £25 or less users (say 500) paying £50?

I think you are right in that quite a few users see a ceiling price for flickr and beyond that price they are just willing to let ‘pro’ go and stay with a free account.

Personally I think they need a full rethink and need to go back to the terms it was when I first joined. Correct me if I’m wrong but wasn’t it something like $25 a year for pro but the free account was limited to just 100 images? I remember it at one point it was a silly £1 a month as the conversion rate was something like $2 to £1.

1000 images is too much if you ask me and stops people from upgrading to pro. Also £55.92 per year is far too much. If it was just £20-25 I’d think about doing it again but £4.66 per month isn’t far off what I pay each month for adobe lightroom/photoshop/portfolio website (I buy the annual subscriptions yearly when on offer rather than a monthly payment).

Does anyone know what they pay in the US? We used to pay in dollars and our banks convert it but it seems Flickr do that themselves now (and I’m sure with a conversion rate that benefits them).
 
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rob-nikon said:
I don’t feel as left out now! Just received an email from Flickr to come back to ‘Pro’ membership with a 25% discount off the first year back. I guess it part of a Black Friday promotion.
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I have just received this offer too. I have never been a pro member, but am considering becoming one so this offer sounds a good time, but it says it’s the Annual Plan which is priced monthly.. now I know this means you can’t cancel through the year but is it still paid monthly or is it A one off year payment?

Thanks :)
 
Joe94 said:
but it says it’s the Annual Plan which is priced monthly.. now I know this means you can’t cancel through the year but is it still paid monthly or is it A one off year payment?
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You can buy monthly and the payments are around £6 / month iirc.
or you can buy an annual one for a one off payment.
 
Joe94 said:
I have just received this offer too. I have never been a pro member, but am considering becoming one so this offer sounds a good time, but it says it’s the Annual Plan which is priced monthly.. now I know this means you can’t cancel through the year but is it still paid monthly or is it A one off year payment?

Thanks :)
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as far as I’m aware the annual plan is the equivalent of £4.66 a month but you pay for a year upfront at £55.92. If you want to pay monthly it’s £6.99 a month (Equivalent of £83.88 per year).
 
Cobra said:
You can buy monthly and the payments are around £6 / month iirc.
or you can buy an annual one for a one off payment.
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rob-nikon said:
as far as I’m aware the annual plan is the equivalent of £4.66 a month but you pay for a year upfront at £55.92. If you want to pay monthly it’s £6.99 a month (Equivalent of £83.88 per year).
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Thank you both very much :) I thought that may have been the case, but was just confused as the annual was still shown as a monthly cost aha :) Thanks again :)
 
Joe94 said:
Thank you both very much :) I thought that may have been the case, but was just confused as the annual was still shown as a monthly cost aha :) Thanks again :)
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Im not sure if there is a minimum 12 month contract time with the monthly. If there isn’t I can initially see the benefit you could potentially cancel before 12 months is up, but if both are 12 month contracts then its quite a bit more just to pay monthly.
 
rob-nikon said:
If there isn’t I can initially see the benefit you could potentially cancel before 12 months is up,
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As far as I'm aware pay monthly and you can stop at anytime, you just revert back to the free one, and anything over 1000 images gets deleted.
Seems an expensive way of doing it TBH, especially if you have less than a 1000 images.
 
Cobra said:
As far as I'm aware pay monthly and you can stop at anytime, you just revert back to the free one, and anything over 1000 images gets deleted.
Seems an expensive way of doing it TBH, especially if you have less than a 1000 images.
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If it can be stopped anytime I guess its a way to properly test the water for a month or two before committing to a full year. But it does make more sense to go with a year if you know you're going to stay for a long time.
 
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