Now I am torn again if I should continue with them.

The push is clearly not to improve the service for Pro users but instead make it more hostile to free users to try and get them pay. added for current Pro users for years that I recall, just price increases. Note there have been zero additional benefits, features, etc. So even at the two year rate this is another almost 11% price increase for current Pro users.

Now they are saying it is $72 for one year or $133 for a two year plan (so $66.50 per year rate). 2021 I was auto renewed at $60 (one year). Now we know that was a lie because they would have taken care of that immediately but instead went another year and we got a letter from the CEO crying about how poor they were and then two years later admitting that it wasn't a problem.Ĭlick to expand.As a follow up to this, I just got some marketing email from them about how their new policies on free accounts is making their Pro accounts the best way to control your experience or some such.īut what I noticed immediately in the email was the stated price has once again shot up. But when they took over Flickr and targeted the unlimited storage offered to everyone previously (which was a stupid move by Yahoo) as one of the big factors in ongoing costs requiring a lot of money to maintain servers and storage for all that data and that culling all the excess storage in free accounts was their first step to becoming profitable. I could argue this could open them up to someone attempting a class action lawsuit of false advertising.Īs to if they were losing money or not, they probably were and maybe still are. By doing so Flickr devalued the Pro plan and falsely advertised & charged for a promised premium benefit that was not at all limited to premium accounts. But then it turns out unlimited storage continued to be free for everyone. The Pro accounts, which doubled in price when Smugmug took over and have continued to increase in price since, the number one feature was unlimited storage. I was buying a commercial service from a business which offered up premium advantages for paying them a yearly fee which when I weighed with going elsewhere I decided paying for unlimited storage with Flickr was the better choice.

I wasn't supporting them (they are not a charity).

Cost of flickr pro