Photopoint dead?

“Anyone out there been successful getting to Photopoint in the past day or so? I tried yesterday afternoon and got a page saying they were offline. Today, I get an error that says that the "Page cannot be displayed". I tried a traceroute and it times out after an unknown host after bouncing through a router in Canada. When I ping them, my request times out.

Has anyone heard of anything? Have any of you who paid up heard of a scheduled down or anything?”

“Perhaps they took the money and ran............

Perhaps someone with a grudge took out their server.....

Perhaps you don't always get what you pay for.......





Sorry, I'm a little cynical today.”

“sounds like a GOOOOOD scam to me!”

“blame Canada.”

“Thought I'd bring this thread back up.

Anyone able to get into Photopoint.com lately. I haven't been able to since my return last weekend. Did something happen while I was gone?”

“naw.. same here.. hacks me off too.. cos i deleted all the local files when i uploaded.”

“I've got 1,999 photos in my photopoint account! I've got them somewhere on this computer, but not the captions. I started getting CDs this year, in case Webshots goes under.

I paid PP for 2000 photos, and when I got to 2,237, they said I owed another $9.95 for 250 photos (or they would freeze my account). Wish they would have said something at 2000. I had to transfer 237 photos to Webshots. I don't like the way they do business, but with 1999 photos, they got me by the .....”

“I can't access it either.....”

“You a shutterbug or what?
/o:”

“I quit them when they began charging. Not that the money was an issue, it just struck me as smarmy to start as a free service to rope people in, then, when they've uploaded tons of photos, spring the trap.”

“I just need a place to upload photos to save my personal webspace.”

“Seems like a lot of them are biting the dust. Here are a few searchable lists.

FreeWebspace.net

FWPReview.com

Free Webspace Review ”

“The next headline will involve a bankruptcy hearing, you watch. I thought something suspicious was going on when they made sound like your account was going to be shut down if you didn't pay for an upgrade even though it wasn't true. I'm glad I didn't fall for it. I smell a class action lawsuit brewing.”

“.....take the money and run.........”

“Webshots be next?”

“Lots of sites that use tons of broadband width and need huge servers go down when they don't have enough revenue. Tons go down everyday. I'm amazed this site has lasted this long. Some day it'll go, too. Maybe sooner than we think.”

“I'm glad I kept a second copy of my pictures.”

“Weeeell, don't that just suck. Thanks for the info kleetn. Oh well, what's $10.00.

I have all my pics, the only thing is having to post them all somewhere else and remember all those captions. What a pain.”

“But if I ever have to reformat....maybe I should burn them to a cd.”

“Any info?? All my pictures...Boo Hoo....”

“I tried it earlier today too. No luck. Maybe they closed for the Holiday?”

“WD, I've made several attempts to access photopoint ever since TownDawg posted our cook-off pics there...never got through...???”

“Internet companies only stop service for two reasons.

1. Major technical problems
2. They get shut down

ZDnet news had an article on it in early December that said they were having "technical difficulties" but the published contact numbers had been disconnected.”

“Here's the scoop....sawreee
"Shutter falls on PhotoPoint site

Special to ZDNet News
December 17, 2001 5:48 PM PT

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.

--Evan Hansen, Special to ZDNet News"
kleetn
09:27:40 AM
12/19/01”

“Ah, you can't post links with bad words.

Cut and past the following into your browser. Where this site puts the symbols in front of ...edcompany... replace the symbols with the F word.


http://forum.#&%!$edcompany.com/phpcomments/index.php?newsid=17063436390&page=1&parentid=0&crapfilter=1”

“That sucks! I got a sh!t load of pictures with them.”

“Any other decent photo-sites out there?

Scullcap, how do you like the site you post your pics to?”

“I just moved a few of my pictures to Ofoto.com. They're owned by Kodak so maybe they'll be around for a bit longer. As of yet they don't charge but if they do, I ain't wasting another dime on pay photo sites.”

“I was looking at reports on the web and it looks like Photopoint isn't replying to anyone at all. It seems to me that there is also a mass lawsuit in the works. Most people, like myself, are more upset about the pictures then the money.”

“i am using ofoto...but i havent figured out how to share albums and link photos yet.....i have tried, but ahem...they are in an edit mode....ya dont wanna do that.....
3~”

“Hold on to your wallets and put those pictures on a disk......

"To generate revenue, Web Shots plans to charge fees for some services. The rates have yet to be determined. Many services will remain free for the sites 13 million registered users"

I doubt if on site storage of your photos is going to be one of the "free" services.”

“Great. Another one prepares to bite the dust.”

“Man this sucks! I wish I could go in and grab the photos out of my files so I don't have to rescan everything to put them up on another photo site!
RATS!!!!!”

“waklkindude, I have some of your photos on my webshots page if you want to go there and download them. It might save you some scanning.”

“Personally, I keep a generic web site that I have backed up on CD-R. If my ISP's server ever goes down, or worse yet, bankrupt, then all I have to do is merely FTP all my files to another server and away I go.

I also paid the 10 bucks to Photopoint. What was lost isn't worth the stamps it would take to chew the bastards out. It does piss me off however that a company can do that and get away with it.”

“I'm going to start making my own web page again but my provider is about to go belly up so I gotta figure out where I'm going to get more webspace before I'll know where to put it up.

Thanks Skully! Your so Cool!

WD”