Photobox- Free Pictures! (photobox.co.uk)

Member Name: OhLala-17

Product:	photobox.co.uk
Date:	21/06/09 (62 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Cheap, good quality, good postage & packaging.

Disadvantages: Nothing.

I'm a cameraholic, where ever I am my camera is 99.9% of the time in my bag!
I take a fair few photo's so I'm always looking out for the best deal for when I want to get my pictures printed off.
So far I have tried many different websites including Truprint, Tesco, Photobox & Snapfish as well as in store photo kiosks.

I have never had a bad experience with any online photo developers, or photo kiosks although they tend to be very pricey!
But Photobox has always stood out that bit more.


- What Is Photobox? -
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Photobox is a website which you can upload, store, share and print pictures. The site was launched in 2000 and is now a very popular website with over two million members.
You upload pictures and put them into albums, then you can print them off choosing what size prints you want or just store them.
The site does a huge range of different photo products including Cards, Posters, Collages, Photobooks, Calendars, Stationary, Gifts for kids, Clothing and much more!
The site often have offers on such as 2 for 1 on selected prints, money off products etc.


- My Thoughts -
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Signing up to the website was very simple, you join for free and you only have to put your name and e-mail address in.
When you first sign up you get 40 free prints! And when you refer friends you get rewards.
After that you can upload hundreds of pictures and put them into albums.
Uploading my pictures was so easy and pretty fast. It comes up with your pictures that are on your computer, you then select which ones you want and begin to upload them. I recently uploaded 200 pictures in one go it did take a while approx 20 mins but in that time you can go onto other websites.
Uploading the photos in that way makes Photobox my favourite photo site as with Tesco it won't allow my computer to do that and I have to do it manually uploading 10 at a time which is a very slow process.

After uploading the prints I wanted I selected some to go into my basket, to do this you click the small box under the photo and a pop up will appear saying it was successful.
I then went into my basket and selected the photo size I wanted, they do 6x4, 6x4½ & 5x3¾ as standard prints they all cost the same at 10p, 8p, 7p & 5p depending how many pictures you want printed. You can get them larger 5x5 up to 15x10.

Yesterday I uploaded some pictures and chose 6x4, a orange border went around my picture to show me where bits would get cut off. At first I was disappointed that a head would be cut off but if you click the orange border you can move it up so the head doesn't get cut off, but maybe a bit of grass at the bottom. Fantastic idea!

I then went to the check out and putting my details in was again simple and quick. I got sent a confirmation e-mail and an estimated delivery date.
As I purchased my photos on a Saturday evening I was expecting to receive them by around Wednesday / Thursday because of the weekend.
This morning I went onto my E-mail and saw I had mail from Photobox, it said my photos had been dispatched!!
I was very surprised as I didn't think they could get printed until Monday but I'm not complaining!

Last time I used Photobox a few months ago now my photos arrived quickly but I ordered them before 4pm on a week day.
The packaging was excellent and well worth the £2.49 postage. The photo's came in a bag and inside the bag is a sturdy plastic box.
With the other sites my photos have come in an ordinary paper or cardboard wallet.

The standard of my photos were superb and the colour came out really well and looked just as good as when they were on the computer screen.
They were printed onto Fujifilm paper which is a good quality.


- Prices -
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1-149 Pictures: 10p
150-299: 8p
300-499: 7p
500+: 5p
Standard Sizes on gloss or matt.

Print packages:
100 standard size photos £10.00
250 standard size photos £12.00
200 standard size photos £16.00
250 standard size photos £20.00

I did the 100 for £10, I think it's fantastic value for money. And saves you £2.49 which is the price of postage!


- Overall -
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I think Photobox is a great site, very easy to navigate around the page and has lots of information.
I have never had to deal with their customer service yet and hopefully won't have to.
The quality of the photos and cheap prices are probably what give this site the many awards they have won!



Five Stars*
Recommended!

Summary: A great site to get your photos developed.