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As a YouPic 'pro' user I have suffered four long years of endless headaches and non-existent customer support. Having put so much into the building and ongoing development of my website, alongside using the URL in my advertising and SM, I was stuck with them. But the final straw was the double charging of the £357 annual hosting subscription. 16 months later they still have not given my money back and I cannot get a genuine (ie. non AI generated) response from them!
I have finally bitten the bullet and gone elsewhere. But I will not let the matter drop. I will continue to issue warnings such as this and am seeking legal recourse.
It's taken me five weeks to build and populate my new site. I opted for Wix, and I have to say it's been a far easier, much better and far more cost effective experience. Plus the new site looks miles better!
So please don't make the mistake I did. Avoid YouPic like the plague.
As a YouPic 'pro' user I have suffered four long years of endless headaches and non-existent customer support. Having put so much into the building and ongoing development of my website, alongside using the URL in my advertising and SM, I was stuck with them. But the final straw was the double charging of the £357 annual hosting subscription. 16 months later they still have not given my money back and I cannot get a genuine (ie. non AI generated) response from them! I have finally bitten the bullet and gone elsewhere. But I will not let the matter drop. I will continue to issue warnings such as this and am seeking legal recourse. It's taken me five weeks to build and populate my new site. I opted for Wix, and I have to say it's been a far easier, much better and far more cost effective experience. Plus the new site looks miles better!So please don't make the mistake I did. Avoid YouPic like the plague.
Signed up as it looked like a good place to post images. Went back a while later to begin uploading to my profile - and found that I was banned. Can't be anything I uploaded as I hadn't uploaded anything. People seem to think they only want paid accounts - fair enough - but be upfront about it. Why allow people to sign up and then just ban them?Have emailed support to ask why I've been banned. No reply.Only giving a '1' rating as I cannot give '0'
Had a look at YouPic as found it randomly, seemed a good site for portfolio showing. For a short time seemed ok, few little technical glitches here n there. BUT then came the ‘upgrade now’ messages with some regularity, and then the ‘nail in the coffin’ was receiving a message from the CEO basically (in short) stating that this so changing to make AI more used (let’s not get started on AI with the photographer purists) and basically forcing you to pay to be on the site. (I think us photographers pay more than enough)I sent a message back outlining a response to each pint that was sent to me, not being negative more constructive.I was ignored…Then today went to log in (was actually quick looking for one of my photos) and when logging in had the ‘user banned’ message.No email…. Nothing and that’s what they choose to do. Highly unprofessional, clearly money motivated, and absolutely the opposite of user friendly. Would highly recommend to avoid.
Finally getting round to this, been a user for a good few years, what originally started out as something different, has now turned into one of the worst run platforms known to man.Started as a free user, then got the message saying someone is interested in licensing one of my images. Okay, great, I thought (in hindsight, one should have realised this next step), but you need a PRO/Paid membership, so okay, I took it out for a year, didn't really pay that much (as other sites use a similar pay plan for portfolios). Only received a pittance for my 'licensed' photo. Then the redevelopment of the site occurred, into something which was nothing new or unique, just a basic cut and copy of everywhere else. Then the next stage was to reduce the number of images per day you could upload to 2, and the next stage was 1 every 24 hours.But wait, it gets better - now a message from the YouPic team: if you want access to your OWN images, you must pay to get a membership - literally, this message was their response:' You either pay for the usage of the site, or there will not be any free site to use anymore.' Basically holding your images to hostage unless you pay to access them!To other people and me, this is blackmail, having to pay to access your OWN images, which have our copyright information on.I have tried many times to get clarification, emailed, DM direct via the platform on this, but ZERO reply, none at all!And ever better still, users are getting their images and profiles deleted and removed with no explination, ZERO communication for the YouPic team and Lisayoupic Moderator/Helper.However, they will let scammers and theives pretend to be YouPic Team members to phiss and scam money from people - when you post an image to inform users, you get your post removed and deleted, but the scammers stay!I have also heard of an instance where someone wrote a review on YouPic, and the next time they tried to log in, it was removed, and their account was deleted.The only reason for the 1 stars is the other photographs and the sense of community they bring. YouPic overall deserves 0 stars.Avoid at all costs. If I were looking for a site to host a portfolio, there are many better, well-respected places than here.
I chose YouPic to provide the professional face of my photography business by using them to host my website. Big mistake! I have experienced no end of problems over the four years of being with them. An ongoing one being this time last year they double charged my 2024 subscription (£359.88 x 2) and I have spent a year trying to get a refund. Now, as the renewal is due again, they have switched off my site access and, in their first contact with me on the subject, asked for details of the double charge. Yet now, with access to the site turned off, I cannot send the screen shots showing the proof they now require. A year late!! This is no way to run a business.
Female nudes galore, but the hypocrisy is unbelievable. I'm a guy, so can barely post anything before they remove it. I'm a pilot so I was trying to post aerial photography, and they even removed pictures of my airplane. I do dog rescue, dogs got removed. All they want is female nudes, and they take those all day long, to include those from her gynecologist.
I had a paid premium account and my subscription lapsed. I decided to stay with the free account option whilst deciding whether to maintain my regular premium sub or upgrade to pro. I received a message recommending I take at least a basic ‘access’ account and that some members will be blocked if they don’t pay, but I was still deliberating on whether to go pro or not. Logged in the next day to discover I’d been banned and my 1,000 plus images (with over 13M views) had all been deleted. Appears to be now way to appeal this or even contact them!Customer service has been awful from day 1 really. Everything is clearly automated and run by bots.
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