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I've had a pro membership with Flickr (photo hosting site) since 2014. At that time, the pro membership was $24.99/ year. The annual plan price progression has been as follows:

2014-2017 = $24.99
2018 = $49.99 (doubled in price, but I reluctantly continued)
2019 = $54.08 (ok, I can deal with $5 more per year)
2020-2021 = $64.90 (I'm not happy, but I use my Flickr account enough that I'll reluctantly renew)
2022-2024 = $77.79 (Now I'm getting mad and have decided if there are any further increases, I'm done).
2025 = $88.52 That's it, I'm outta here! Just cancelled my Pro account.
Probably should have bailed along time ago.
 
ugh - sorry that happened.

But isn't that the way 'net services operate? Get someone to use the service, then you store files, and the charges slowly increase. And some of those picture services don't make it easy to retrieve the files!
 
NutmegCT said:
ugh - sorry that happened.

But isn't that the way 'net services operate? Get someone to use the service, then you store files, and the charges slowly increase. And some of those picture services don't make it easy to retrieve the files!
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My prices for BCF subscriptions have not increased since I started offering subscriptions.
I was able to easily download all my image files (probably already had most of them on my computer but downloaded them anyway just to be safe).
 
Basil said:
My prices for BCF subscriptions have not increased since I started offering subscriptions.
I was able to easily download all my image files (probably already had most of them on my computer but downloaded them anyway just to be safe).
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That would have been something I should have done with my pic files.
After switching files from my old Mac to the new Mac and updating my OS, most of my pics are gone.
They are even missing on the old Mac.
Still working on finding them but not hopeful.
I'm pretty dense about computers and my sister who supplies me with her old Macs has been doing the xfers.
Can't exactly ask for my money back.
 
Basil said:
I've had a pro membership with Flickr (photo hosting site) since 2014. At that time, the pro membership was $24.99/ year. The annual plan price progression has been as follows:

2014-2017 = $24.99
2018 = $49.99 (doubled in price, but I reluctantly continued)
2019 = $54.08 (ok, I can deal with $5 more per year)
2020-2021 = $64.90 (I'm not happy, but I use my Flickr account enough that I'll reluctantly renew)
2022-2024 = $77.79 (Now I'm getting mad and have decided if there are any further increases, I'm done).
2025 = $88.52 That's it, I'm outta here! Just cancelled my Pro account.
Probably should have bailed along time ago.
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Sounds like it's owned by one of the cable companies.
We don't get cable anymore,due to the fact that they kept
raising the price.We now have an antenna & get different
channels in two different rooms - weird.
 
AngliaGT said:
Sounds like it's owned by one of the cable companies.
We don't get cable anymore,due to the fact that they kept
raising the price.We now have an antenna & get different
channels in two different rooms - weird.
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I have the same thing with my antenna receivers. In one room I can get specific channels with great signal, in the other room no signal at all from those channels, even with antenna orientation experimenting. I have a temporary pole (12 feet of PVC with an antenna on top) I can put up outside and depending on how I turn the pole I can get different channels. I don't leave it up because severe storms and lightning are real things here.
 
I still have an antenna for most network and PBS stuff. Digital signals get blocked really easily. Used to be with analog you could get a fuzzy picture if the signal wasn't great but with digital it either comes in great or not at all. Oh well, I still get 60 some stations over the air which works for me.
 
If DirectTV ever stopped serving my area, I might stop watching broadcast TV altogether.
Not that I'm in love with them, I just don't like any of the alternatives.
I won't ever stream anything, and not interested in any sports, other than F1, and that's terrible.
Will have to figure out how to get the news somehow, but it can depress me.
Now we have been watching DVDs for some of the series we like.
 
Ah, the good ol' days of sixty years ago. Three or four network stations, one independent, one educational. Free to the viewer, over the air, paid for by five or six minutes of commercials every 30 minutes. They all had something worth watching much of the time.

And you could watch them all with kids, teens, adults, and "seniors" - without fear of sexual embarrassment.

yeesh
 
And a big old antenna on the roof or rabbit ears on the tv. Yep was designed to relax in the evenings, educate in some cases. While there are things in all the streaming I like I do kind of miss the old days when I was a kid, like Saturday morning cartoons.
 
Or getting out of your chair to change the channel.
 
Gliderman8 said:
Or getting out of your chair to change the channel.
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Unless you had the spiffy new wireless remote of 1955!

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