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Since there has been such a massive backlash to the US$400 plan and most certainly very few taking it up... Maybe we could do a "group buy" by writing to them and saying something along the following lines..

Dear Photobucket Support,

Plan upgrade Proposal from the members of Australian Ford Forums.

Many of our members here use Photobucket to host their images for inclusion in our long running forum for Ford fans.

None of our members need 510GB as we only require space to host small web sized images and require 20GB at most. However we do require 3rd party hosting to imbed our images in our forum.

Consequently none of our members are willing to pay the US$400 which equates to AUD$520 at today's exchange rate.

However, if you are interested, we have many members who currently have free accounts with you who would be prepared to pay US$50 a year for just 20GB of storage space each with unlimited 3rd party hosting.

If you are in agreeance to our "group buy" proposal, we will then provide you with a list of those members and their current Photobucket account names.

We could start with a group buy of 50 accounts or so to start.

You can then email each of them with the group buy offer, and a method by which payment can individually be made.

We have over 100,000 members, and we are sure if this initial group buy is accepted, many members will take up the offer.

Yours sincerely
Australian Ford Forums "group buy" Co-ordinator