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Warning to those upgrading Flickr accounts to Pro

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Yesterday I updloaded hundreds of vacation pictures to Flickr so I could blog them and share them with my family and friends.  I ended up surpassing my free-service limits of 200 photos.  Considering the relatively cheap service of $24.xx/year, I decided it would be worth upgrading to a pro account so that could remove the limits.  I went through the process and selected PayPal.   The payment process went smoothly and I got my receipt from PayPal.  You would think that would be the end of the story.... but... no. 

Apparently Flickr has elected to use eChecks as their method of PayPal payment.  Flickr, while acknowledging my PayPal transaction in my account information area, will not remove the limits until the eCheck is received from PayPal which they say is 3-8 business days.  So almost 2 weeks for what should be an instant process?  How is that acceptable?  If they had put some warninig on there about this I would have chosen another method, but they opted not to disclose it.  At this point I am just hoping that it is actually no more time than 3-8 business days.  From some of the complaints in the forums, some people just never seem to get upgraded.   

If you ever decide to upgrade your Flickr account, consider yourself warned.

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Seth Bienek said:
 
Bummer! A piss-poor solution from a company that many people believe to be on the "bleeding edge" when it comes to internet technology.. That's the best they can do for e-commerce?
 
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johnb said:
 
Odd - my flickr account recently expired reverting to a basic account, i upgraded back to a pro account - the whole process took less than a minute an i paid with paypal too....
 
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Adam said:
 
Weird, I went through the exact same thing last night, and blogged about it a few hours ago.
 
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lol... guess I was in a "bickering mood" too. :)

Well, let's see who gets access first.
 
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Adam said:
 
You're on! I sent my e-check around 7:30 pm Eastern.
 
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duncan said:
 
Flickr's gone to the dogs since the Yahoo buyout in so many ways... and I've been using it pretty much since they first launched in Feb 2004. I nearly migrated all my 3000+ photos off to my own website when they forced the 'oldskool' users to register with Yahoo.
 
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Adam, when I got home around 11pm CST last night I was pleasantly surprised to find that I had been upgraded!
 
posted 1004 days ago
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Adam said:
 
I guess you win. The money has cleared my bank account, but I haven't received any notification from flickr and I still see the upgrade nag on my photos page. :(
 
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Kapil said:
 
I have a free Paypal account - can I still use this to upgrade my flickr account? I didn't see any such option on the flickr page.
 
posted 996 days ago
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I used a free PayPal account when I upgraded to Pro. Just be aware that it isn't instantaneous. Mine took just under 48 hours.
 
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