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[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Photopoint.com is out of business

Posted: 12/19/2001 6:06:01 PM EDT

http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-8209794.html?tag=ch_mh

Excerpt:

Online photo site PhotoPoint has been unavailable for days, wreaking havoc with thousands of customers who store pictures on the popular site.

The company began referring some 1.25 million current and former customers to partner EZ Prints for printing and other services in a Dec. 7 e-mail message. The note said the shutdown was due to technical difficulties, but it left unanswered the bigger question of when, if ever, customers would be able to access their PhotoPoint files.

Executives at PhotoPoint and parent Pantellic Software, which acquired the service this summer, could not immediately be reached for comment. Web sites for both companies were unavailable Monday. A published company phone number listed as the contact for both companies had been disconnected.

Jamie Bardin, chief executive of Atlanta, Ga.-based EZ Prints, said the PhotoPoint service has effectively shut down, at least temporarily.

"To the extent of my knowledge, PhotoPoint is not in existence at this time," he said. "It's tragic that this happened at this time in the year."

Bardin said his company has been signing up former PhotoPoint customers for the past 10 days, but he would not reveal exact numbers. He said the future of PhotoPoint is unclear, but he did not rule out the possibility that the site could eventually relaunch.

Posted: 12/19/2001 7:00:29 PM EDT

[#1]

What a great lead-in to my sales pitch !
[:)]

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- Satisfaction of helping out
- Free HOSTING of your photos !
- E-Mail services (including WebMail and Virus Scanning)
- Signature Picture next to your name
- Discounts on AR15.com branded merchandise

Posted: 12/19/2001 7:03:48 PM EDT

[#2]

Is that $60 bucks for a lifetime membership or are there renewals?

Posted: 12/19/2001 7:07:53 PM EDT

[#3]

good, those bastards deserve it, use [s]webshots[/s] ar15.com server

Posted: 12/19/2001 10:25:25 PM EDT

[#4]

I wonder if Goatboy had anything to do with this?

Hmmmmm.

Posted: 12/19/2001 11:12:04 PM EDT

[#5]

Sung to the tune of "Happy Trails":

Crap-py trails to you, failed dot com goatee heads.

Crap-py trails to you, may we nev-er meet again.

You dumbasses put the market in a wring-er, so I salute you with my middle fing-er.

Crappy trails to you, til you retreat a-gain.

Posted: 12/20/2001 1:29:32 AM EDT

[#6]

AhhHaHaHa...[:D]
Right On Professor!

Posted: 12/21/2001 5:48:15 AM EDT

[#7]

Yeah well it might be funnier if I hadn't just paid those bastards for a one year subcription just a month ago...

[rail]

Posted: 12/21/2001 6:51:21 AM EDT

[#8]

Quoted:
Yeah well it might be funnier if I hadn't just paid those bastards for a one year subcription just a month ago...

[rail]

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Ditto that! [>(]

Nuckles. [smash]

Posted: 12/21/2001 7:04:12 AM EDT

[#9]

great....it would have been nice if they would have notified us before it went down. Looks like I have work to do after Christmas. I had alot of photos on that site.
Merry Christmas?

Posted: 12/21/2001 7:25:29 AM EDT

[#10]

I'm in the same crowded boat. Damn, and there were some pics that I didn't want to lose! Crud!

Posted: 12/21/2001 8:16:21 AM EDT

[#11]

I had my bank get my $$ back from them when they went dark in July, just after I sent them payment for a years service.
They left my account open from then until they went tits up again without any more charges.

Posted: 12/21/2001 8:17:57 AM EDT

[#12]

Try webshots or huntingpictures.com

Posted: 12/21/2001 12:48:39 PM EDT

[#13]

That's what happens when the service you rely on is FREE! Esp. a service that offers both, free and paid accounts, you get screwed by the multitudes of freeloaders.

Posted: 12/21/2001 12:54:23 PM EDT

[#14]

Photopoint hasn't been free since they started charging for their service in July. They had a grace period for free accounts to pay up but I elected not to join and when the grace period passed I couldn't access my account. No freeloaders, just bad management. Sorry for you guys who lost money but when they went TU in July, I saw the handwriting on the wall.

Posted: 12/21/2001 7:15:57 PM EDT

[#15]

Quoted:
Photopoint hasn't been free since they started charging for their service in July. They had a grace period for free accounts to pay up but I elected not to join and when the grace period passed I couldn't access my account. No freeloaders, just bad management. Sorry for you guys who lost money but when they went TU in July, I saw the handwriting on the wall.

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Me too. Whoever called them Photopimp said it best.

Posted: 12/25/2001 11:46:09 PM EDT

[#16]

Quoted:
Photopoint hasn't been free since they started charging for their service in July. They had a grace period for free accounts to pay up but I elected not to join and when the grace period passed I couldn't access my account. No freeloaders, just bad management. Sorry for you guys who lost money but when they went TU in July, I saw the handwriting on the wall.

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No kidding, how much were they charging?

Posted: 12/25/2001 11:56:03 PM EDT

[#17]

$30 a year I think. Somebody who paid for it can correct me if that's wrong.

Posted: 12/26/2001 10:02:25 AM EDT

[#18]

I only paid $10. It depended on how many photos and what other options you wanted. This was the basic price.
I will check out the suggested sites. But what I really need is a website instead!

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