Pixaco bought by HP *sigh* - where next?

[joust]

Pixaco's just been bought by HP and will cease to exist after the 31st Jan. Apparently you now have to use snapfish.co.uk which looks a load of pants.

Couple that with they have just jacked up their prices by 70% means I'm on the hunt for an alternative now

Ideas?

Looking for good large format prices and <10p 6x4 prices?

J

[size13]

Looks more like them being paid to shut down!

[GetCarter]

Next thing we know, Jag, Aston and Chelsea will all be owned by Jonnie Foreigner!

[ehasler]

If you buy pre-paid credits, Photobox 6x4 prints work out to between 6-10p per print.

[406tm]

I use digi-print - www.digi-prints.co.uk - Not had a bad pic back yet. If you get your stuff to them by 16.00, they normally get it back to you next day

[pmanson]

406tm said:

I use digi-print - www.digi-prints.co.uk - Not had a bad pic back yet. If you get your stuff to them by 16.00, they normally get it back to you next day

I always use them. Really rate them as well

[agent006]

Photobox. They beat Pixaco in every aspect when i tried them out last year. Same photo same size ordered within 5 minutes of each other. Photobox was next day (or maybe 2) pixaco was nearly a week and came from germany.

[joust]

agent006 said:

Photobox. They beat Pixaco in every aspect when i tried them out last year. Same photo same size ordered within 5 minutes of each other. Photobox was next day (or maybe 2) pixaco was nearly a week and came from germany.

True, but I've never been happy with photobox quality when I've used them (3 times now, never truely happy with them)

Speed is nothing if the quality isn't up to much...

J

[_dobbo_]

I heard someone ordered a picture which was 5" by 23 miles, and Pixaco printed it for 7p and went bankrupt... Could just be a rumour...

[joust]

LOL!

However you should know that they set the maximum of 5" wide prints to 7" long

It was their 10"+ stuff that they intimated that it didn't have a maximum length!

J

[tuscan_v8]

joust said:

agent006 said: Photobox. They beat Pixaco in every aspect when i tried them out last year. Same photo same size ordered within 5 minutes of each other. Photobox was next day (or maybe 2) pixaco was nearly a week and came from germany. True, but I've never been happy with photobox quality when I've used them (3 times now, never truely happy with them) Speed is nothing if the quality isn't up to much... J

Alway thought the quality from Photobox is excellent. Just ordered 30 free photo from snapfish so I can compare those two different service.

[ehasler]

joust said:

LOL! However you should know that they set the maximum of 5" wide prints to 7" long It was their 10"+ stuff that they intimated that it didn't have a maximum length! J

I wonder if it's coincidence that this announcement was made on the same day you posted the link to the 30ft wide NASA photos

[joust]

tuscan_v8 said:

Alway thought the quality from Photobox is excellent. Just ordered 30 free photo from snapfish so I can compare those two different service.

I found a lot of missalignment on the few I had from them - you could clearly see halos around sharp edges.

I'm thinking I'm going to have to give them all another trial run.

J

[joust]

ehasler said:

I wonder if it's coincidence that this announcement was made on the same day you posted the link to the 30ft wide NASA photos

Now you know why I'm miffed!

J

[agent006]

Didn't find any difference between the pixaco and photobox prints. I imagine if you were to sit and stare at them for a while you'd notice the difference, but for a print to stick on the wall they were both fine.

[joust]

Anyone tried pixdiscount? 4p for 6x4's!

J

[HankScorpio]

Snapfish coupon code PENNY gets you 6x4 at 1p until 22nd jan.

[rude girl]

Had an email from HP this morning:

email said:

Snapfish, HP's best value online digital photo service, is offering prints for just 1p each until midnight 22nd January 2006. Your favourite photos in matt or gloss, delivered straight to your door in 1-3 days. Just use coupon code "PENNY" at the check out to receive your 6x4 prints for 1p each.

[rude girl]

HankScorpio said:

Snapfish coupon code PENNY gets you 6x4 at 1p until 22nd jan.

SNAP! LOL

[joust]

Well what a pile of crap snapfish is.

Firstly you only get up to 50 prints at 1p each which makes them rather expensive for 900 prints..

To cap it all, when I hit "finish order" for 90 of them and it just bummed out and said "error". Now it just says that it can't process my credit card.

What a crap service!

J