BT Yahoo Premium Mail and Flickr?

I have recently migrated away from BT Total Broadband Option 3 and I wish to keep my email service. I am aware there are two ways of doing this:

(1) paying for BT Yahoo Premium Mail @ £1.47 per month,

(2) using a BT Yahoo pay-as-you-go dial-up account at least once every 90 days (the latter is the option I have been automatically switched to).

I would be happy to pay for the BT Premium mail service, however, I notice that the BT Yahoo pay-as-you-go dial-up (2) still includes the complimentary Flickr Pro access. I have seen no mention of that in relation to the BT Yahoo Premium Mail (1) account.

So, my question is thus; if I want Flickr; and can manage to dial-up once every 90 days, then what are the drawbacks?
And, does Premium Mail in fact offer Flickr Pro?

Hi oracleredux,

The Premium Mail service doesn't offer Flickr, all it does is keep the email account you had linked to your broadband active, but if it�s now linked to a dial-up account you can still keep it.

Thanks,

Stephanie
BT Support

When a user who has taken advantage of the Flickr Pro account leaves what happens to the content? How can the account be kept pro? I'm guessing you will change the Yahoo ID the Flickr account is associated with and move it that way. Interested to hear the official line on this.

In reply to a post by paulbeattie87:

When a user who has taken advantage of the Flickr Pro account leaves what happens to the content? How can the account be kept pro? I'm guessing you will change the Yahoo ID the Flickr account is associated with and move it that way. Interested to hear the official line on this.

This happened to me over a year past September. It's the most frustrating service trying to stop payments. I only signed up to get the Flickr Pro account status as it was advertised back then. Sadly the account never became Pro so I cancelled it within a month but BT Yahoo kept taking my money every month even though I had no access as it was a cancelled account.

They stopped responding to emails (alternate account). Even took it up with my bank. They were even ignoring phone calls and letters from my bank. The bank eventually got it sorted but this lasted for over 6 months while BT Yahoo kept charging me.

Everything I have dealt with from BT ends up a nightmare.

As for your Flickr account that gets flagged as Pro with the BT address, your account becomes a standard account with only a maximum of 200 photos. If you have more photos they are hidden until you buy a Pro subscription.

Sadly at the time back then my account got locked out because the last email account I had under BT Yahoo expired. I had to contact the Flickr team because the BT Yahoo support team were not useful one bit. All they said was you'll have to contact Flickr support. The Flickr team told me with a BT Yahoo account somebody from BT flags the account to be activated as Pro status. See how BT are good at bouncing you about? BT know what they are doing but they don't want to help and play dumb.

Thankfully the Flickr team were so helpful unlike BT. The Flickr team reset my account so I could enter a new email address (this being a Yahoo email of course) to login and I bought a subscription directly through Flickr. The content was still in my profile.

I've never looked back.

Edited by deleted (Fri 01-Jan-10 02:13:01)

I thought that might be the case. See the other issue with using an @btinternet.com address for Flickr is that when you leave that e-mail address will close eventually through not logging in. I'm certain there's a option in the Flickr control panel to change the Flickr account to a different Yahoo ID. I would change my Flickr Pro account to my BT Internet address but I just don't know what will happen at the end, would save me £17/year.

In reply to a post by paulbeattie87:

I thought that might be the case. See the other issue with using an @btinternet.com address for Flickr is that when you leave that e-mail address will close eventually through not logging in. I'm certain there's a option in the Flickr control panel to change the Flickr account to a different Yahoo ID. I would change my Flickr Pro account to my BT Internet address but I just don't know what will happen at the end, would save me £17/year.

Indeed, there is. It's just I left it too late at the time that my older btinternet address was still tied to the Flickr account but because it expired I could no longer login to my Flickr account to change it. Thats where the Flickr team came in thankfully.

Strangely though when the actual email account expired it still allowed me to stay logged in to Flickr for a good 5 - 6 months, until one day no more. I was locked out.

Edited by deleted (Mon 04-Jan-10 01:27:07)

The staying logged in will be thanks to cookies keeping your session open, months at a time seems like an awfully long session mind you. That's why you don't need to login to sites all the time, they send the authentication via cookie, Flickr obviously had the account open, your cookie expired and Yahoo no longer let you login yet the cookie authentication would still work.