Like a lot of people, I've spent time and money to make my store listings attractive and distinctive. Also like many others I've used Photobucket to host not only product photos, but photos of backgrounds and animation used in my different store templates. However, since Photobucket has, in their recent User Agreement update, decided not to permit the use of the free account for such purposes and have gone from a zero cost to a $400 annual subscription, I'm wondering what, if any, are the alternatives?
I remember that after the latest eBid site revamp all my store templates had to be completely reworked and now with another pending site remodeling, coupled with Photobucket's changes and restrictions, if we have any inkling of what effect all this is going to do to our stores and listings.
Frankly, I don't have that many listings here that it change is going to totally wreck my day, but without knowing what specific changes to the site are going to be made, it is hard to know what steps to take. Should I pay the $400, find another photo hosting site or simply forget templates and have all listings sans photographs except for the five uploaded to eBid? To go through the trouble and/or expense to deal with the photo hosting issues only to have changes to eBid make it be all for naught would be more than simply annoying.
What say you, Oh Masters of the eBid Universe?