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

[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

[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

[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

[joust]

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

J

[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

[joust]

Too much hassle, and then when you add in P&P it doesn't look that great.

J

[joust]

You obviously have more paitence than me!

J

[joust]

[joust]

I just sent off 550.

Some of us like taking pictures - that was just 3 months worth for me.

J

[joust]

I got a laughable reply from snapfish today about why their ordering system wouldn't accept my order.

Apparently, although I live in the UK, and tried three credit cards that I obtained in the UK, I need a UK registered credit card to order from them.

So, that's great customer service.

As to the pictures, they all make their way into albums. I like to keep regular records of trips, holidays and just fun things we see on our travels.

Not all the printed ones make it into the albums, but it's usually around 1000 digital photos a month of which 2-300 get printed of which ~100 go into albums. At 4-5 pictures per page that's only 10 leafs per month or 2 albums per year.

J