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That's a great idea. I did just buy a 2 year gift yesterday (the 27th). Did I blow it on the timing by 24 hours, or does this apply to me too?
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I'm sorry, but it was just deployed today, so no.
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Well that's fine and I figured as much, but I had to ask.
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This is a greatidea :) Unfortunately a little bit late for me I just bought a gift for someone just one week ago ;)
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Does the 3 free months only apply if I buy Flickr Pro as a gift for someone else, or does the 3 free months also apply if I extend my own Flickr Pro account?
Thanks.
Regards--- rockmusicflashy, Justin
www.VacantNewJersey.com
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My "Pro" expires within the next month. If I and a friend both buy each other "Pro", will we each get 15 months? And does it matter if the donor or recipient are already "Pro"?
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Does the 3 free months only apply if I buy Flickr Pro as a gift for someone else, or does the 3 free months also apply if I extend my own Flickr Pro account?
If you buy pro through upgrade, no, but if you buy a gift.... (wink, wink, wink).
My "Pro" expires within the next month. If I and a friend both buy each other "Pro", will we each get 15 months?
Yes, 12 you buy as a gift + the 3 months for the promotion.
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It totally bites that I missed the boat for this by about a day. :(
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Giving someone a gift (and the promotion) are nice ideas, but seeing accounts that say "Buy (name) a pro account" is a real turn off for me.
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Actually, I'd MUCH rather click on that simple link than go through all the nonsense of having to purchase the Gift account, then FlickrMail the user to tell them the code's there, etc, etc...
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Can I gift myself a year? that way I get 15 months.
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Hi :)
is there any way you can tell when a flickr user's pro account is about to run out.?? I would prefer to give the gift to someone whose account is about to expire, rather than to someone who has just renewed theirs, if possible..
Thanks :)
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Rahul Sadagopan as heather didn't actually say (but did ;-)) above, if you upgrade your account the usual way, then no. But if you purchase a gift of pro and apply the code to your own account, then yes !
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Thanks for clearing that.
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I guess there could have been some kind of block put in place when applying to one's own account, but seems not in this instance :-))
Oh, and take note....this offer is currently only available until January 31, 2008 at 11:59 PM PT !!!
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Buying yourself a gift account is really uncouth and totally abuses the promotion. Kinda like a store manager/owner cutting out his own coupons and mailing them in to get the rebate.Just plain wrong, next time Flickr may not be so willing to do promotions. Shame, someone is always willing to abuse the system.
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What ?
How is the system being abused when staff have hinted that this is what members can do to add a little thank you to their own account ?
If Flickr wanted to, they could easily have made it not work on our own accounts. But it would appear they don't mind if we do.
Of course Flickr will be willing to run more promotions. It's a way to promote the business.
Just a way for Flickr to say thanks...and make some more money ;-)
And this promotion is to mark the first anniversary of the 'gift of Flickr pro'.
Chill a bit and join the party :-)
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I guess no one knows the answer to my query yet ?? :(
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Not without them telling you julesangel.
We are only privy to our own account settings page.
Sorry.
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Can I extend someones pro with another year by using the flickr gift when this person already has a pro account?
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g.h.vandoorn yes you can.
Same as if they extended their own pro account (or your own)...it'll just tag on the end of their current balance :)
But I think you will only benefit to the tune of three months added to your account if you buy a 'gift of pro', then send them the activation code.
Not too sure if the promotion includes buying for someone the other way ??
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Thank you for your response Stevekin ..i was hoping to be able to tell, but that's ok..privacy settings are there for a reason after all ! :)
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Not too sure if the promotion includes buying for someone the other way
There is no other way anymore. The only way to give someone else Pro is with a Gift.
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So sad! I JUST bought my first gift for someone ever, and just missed this promotion by a VERY few days! I even did it as an early Christmas present...that will teach me to shop early. :(
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I guess there could have been some kind of block put in place when applying to one's own account, but seems not in this instance :-))
There are no blocks.
If Flickr wanted to, they could easily have made it not work on our own accounts. But it would appear they don't mind if we do.
That's true and we don't mind. It's all about spreading a little love. I think it would be a wee bit poopy on our part if you couldn't buy yourself a present.
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Oh just tell them the truth Heather!
For every person who buys and applies a gift code to their own account.... we drown a kitten.
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Ben, don't make me block you from the Help Forum.
All, please rest assured that no kittens are harmed in the purchasing or application of any Gift of Flickr pro code.
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BenJ: I'm sure Kevin, at a minimum, will stop you! Monster! :-P
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This is an awesome idea, thanks Flickr team!
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why not just deliver photos.yahoo.com to flickr.com
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I am a free user, if I buy a pro for a friend, will I get the 3 months pro free too? Or I must become a pro first?
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I am a free user, if I buy a pro for a friend, will I get the 3 months pro free too? Or I must become a pro first?
You will get three months of free pro. You don't need to be a pro member to benefit from this promotion.
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I've been waiting to see if the wind bloweth, but since it doesn't, I have a question: why don't these announcements find their way to the international fora? Not just this one, but almost *none* of any importance.
Lots of p.e. Spanish speaking users know nothing of English. Is there no staff for them? Even if only to start the thread as "official", please?
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why don't these announcements find their way to the international fora? Not just this one, but almost *none* of any importance.
There are blog posts in all languages.
We have Community Managers for German, Portuguese and Korean (who should have started topics) and we're training our Spanish and Traditional Chinese Community Managers. We should be spreading the word better for those languages shortly. French and Italian will come on board early next year.
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I know about the blog but users go to the forum to ask. But don't mind me much, it was just curiosity... so, in training? Fine! We'll wait. :-)
Thanks, Heather.
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heather I realised there was not a block in place as you had hinted that members could abuse the system if they wished to ;-)
But thank you for clarifying, and vindicating those that might wish to benefit even more :-))
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heather I realised there was not a block in place as you had hinted that members could abuse the system if they wished to ;-)
I think that my right eye is tired from all the winking..... :)
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Cup of tea in order ?
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oh so cool, a couple of pros i gifted in less than a month now, and they don't worth anything...
lucky me... ¬¬U
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I tried to purchase this last night and again today and I get this error message:
Sorry, there is a temporary problem. Please try again later. If the problem persists, please contact Yahoo! Customer Care. (15)
But I would rather bug you helpful people. Any ideas?
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julesangel: I don't think anyone confirmed this for you yet - but no, there isn't a way to tell when someone else's flickr pro account is going to expire. We think a lot of people wouldn't be happy with us sharing this information.
You could ask your friends, but that might spoil the surprise!
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Paul Hammond www.flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/60414/345050/
:-))
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Sorry, there is a temporary problem. Please try again later. If the problem persists, please contact Yahoo! Customer Care. (15)
TPorter2006, The Yahoo! Billing Customer Care Team will be able to let you know what error (15) is. We don't have all the specifics of every error message.
You can reach them by selecting the billing option from the Help by Email drop down menu:
www.flickr.com/help/contact/
"I am having a problem with a payment for Flickr pro"
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Stevekin: oops!
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I believe Flickr should apply this gift promotion retroactively. I just bought a gift this week for a friend and yet I miss out. Not Fair!
Most retail chains will at least grant you the difference in price if you feel strongly enough to say something about the missed sale price.
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If your local gas station drops its price ten cents, do they give you a refund because you filled up there last week? No....
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Dr. Keats, it still is frustrating. Especially for those of us who literally missed it by an hour or two. (I'm assuming it started midnight the 28th)
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I had the error 15 problem earlier so I waited an hour and came back and used paypal. All the way through the process it appeared I was buying a gift but then after it was too late it extended my account instead. Something looks broken to me. I sent a email through the form.
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Of course it's a kick in the ass to miss out on the promotion by any amount of (reasonable) time.
I'd feel exactly the same :(
But where would the line be drawn ?
"Okay, you missed it by an hour, we'll give it to you."
"Hang on, what about me, only a week ago...."
"Oh, I only paid a month ago :("
Etc, etc.....
No matter when the (retrospective) cut off point was set, someone else would be 'missing out'.
No good now anyway, but I was going to suggest that it may have been better to announce the promotion ahead of the start date.
But then many would have been disappointed to know in advance they were going to miss out anyway ;-)
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if I buy a gift now, for someone for Christmas, will he lose out on almost a month of flickr pro, or does his year start when he activates the code on Christmas day?
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-Jer- No. If you buy it now your friend won't lose anything.
The code can be activated at any time up to one year from purchase (unless this has changed recently).
So you will be fine to send him the gift on Christmas day and if he activates that day, he will still have a year of pro :)
Plus, you get three months of pro too ! (but from the date of purchase I believe).
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That sounds cool but unfortunilty nobody I know use Flickr so they cannot give me this gift or neither could I :(
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thekid3 Free accounts can purchase the gift of Flickr.
Maybe ask a family member to create a free Flickr account in order to buy you the gift of pro for Christmas.
Even if they never use the account themselves again, it'll only take them a couple of minutes to do. Or you could do it for them and send them the sign in details, they buy you pro, then delete the account if they wish.
You never know, they might like it and want to stay ;-)
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Or ask for the money, buy the gift yourself and apply it to your own account. That should work too (as Stevekin said some posts above :-)))
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Shouldn't this say "Give the gift of pro"? (:
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Shouldn't this say "Give the gift of pro"? (:
Zoinks... It should. Thank you.
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I cannot find a way, besides clicking through to all my contacts' pages, to discover which of my friends are not already pro. Would be super duper handy to have on your contacts page, or linked from a give the gift of flickr page which contacts are not pro already... If such a beast exists and I cannot find it please do educate me, and then make it easier to find!
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roosto, I don't think that beast exists. I'll poke the team for confirmation, but otherwise, this would be a good idea.
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With the 3 months u get free does this apply straight away or do u get a code to activate it when u want ??? ...... i want to buy a pro account as a christmas present for someone but if i suddenly get 3 months free pro this other person will see and be a bit suss !!!
Any help would be great, Matt
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I would imagine the three months are applied to your own account upon purchase of the gift.
Unless someone confirms otherwise, I suggest you purchase the gift on Xmas eve, or on the day :)
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With the 3 months u get free does this apply straight away or do u get a code to activate it when u want ??? ...... i want to buy a pro account as a christmas present for someone but if i suddenly get 3 months free pro this other person will see and be a bit suss !!!
The 3 months will appear on your account straight away... though, there's no way for your friend to know if you're pro for 3 months or a year.
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Heather, I tried to order a gift on Sunday and got the error 15 mentioned above. Later I placed the order using paypal but was sold an extension to my account instead of a gift. All along it appeared I was ordering a gift but in the end 12 months was added to my account instead. I opened a case and they still haven't resolved it. I've been told they don't give refunds. I'm not asking for a refund I'm trying to buy a gift and get three months free for me. Can you help? Case is 439558.
Thanks
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Got my billing issue resolved, was a "credit card expired, didn't have the new date on file" type issue.
I gave the gift of Flickr. I am glad I did and would do it again. Thanks!
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Darn it, I am apart of a forum and alot of the ladies on this were swapping and exchanging christmas gifts. Lots of them were asking for Flickr Pro accounts. They all missed out on this excellent promotion. Ooh well.... I knew they started Christmas gift exchanging a little early!
I am curious if this is a previous promotion, or if there is normally other promotions though out the year for buying a Pro account.
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In the beginning, pro account holders were given a free pro account to give to whomever they choose (actually, it might have been two...not sure).
But that was for those that were 'in at the beginning' and is likely to not happen again ;-)
Anyway, that passed by a couple of years ago.
This promotion is to mark the anniversary of the 'Gift of Flickr'. The system introduced to enable members to purchase a gift account in the form of an activation code. Which can be passed on to anyone, account holders or not, at any time up to one year from purchase.
It's a way for members to perhaps pay for a pro account for non contacts, new members to be, or to surprise someone on their birthday or Christmas time.
The old way meant only a specific person could be bought a pro account.
One could upgrade a free account to pro, but had to choose the member (or newcomer) specifically. And in respect of newcomer, an account needed to be created first of all.
Now you buy it and send the activation to whoever you wish to.
The recipient would still need to create a free account, but then apply the gift activation code !
In between the two, I don't recall any other promotions of this nature.
Other than you save a couple of dollars if you purchase two years instead of one :)
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Just got an email and I'm all fixed up.
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Help? I would like to buy a friend who already has a pro account, another year. But after hunting high and low over their account and mine, I can't find any link that will take me to purchase one for them...Am I missing something?
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Nevermind. I think I have found it and figured it out! :-)
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Ooops! Thanks Brenda! :-)
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Stumblingthrulifewithgrace because your friend already has pro, the link to buy it for them is not there. It only appears in the profile of free account holders.
But the system has changed. Whereas one might have paid to extend or upgrade a specific person from their account, the same link now takes you to the Gift of pro.
For someone else (your friend) you can now only purchase pro this way.
Make the purchase and you will receive an activation code.
Copy and paste this to a Flickr mail to your friend, then they activate it on this page :-)
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Darn one liners !
Always concise, to the point & a lot quicker to type ;-)
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I'm having problems with buying a Flickr Pro gift. After choosing the length, I'm taken to a Yahoo sign-in page. After filling this form, I'm taken to yet another sign-in page. And then another -- I can't get forward!
It isn't a matter of an incorrect password, because when I test the form with a different password, it notifies me that there's something wrong.
Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong?
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ilya_, Please drop a line to Help by Email, selecting "I am having a problem with a payment for Flickr pro". Provide as much detail as possible and the Billing Customer Care agents should be able to get things sorted out.
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I just bought a gift for someone. To send the activation code to that person (who already has a flickr account, but no pro) I have to enter his email adres. I do not have his emailadres, I know him via Flickr. Is there not some other way to send him, by entering the Flickr name of the person? I don't want to spoil the surprise by asking his email adres first....
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p.s. when I click on the link I got in my mail: You bought a Gift Account! To send your gift(s):http://www.flickr.com/account/order/gifts it says: you haven't bought a gift yet. But since I have the activation code and all, obviously I have.
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Back again...I was thinking, can I just copy the code and the activation link (http://flickr.com/gift/activate) in a flickrmail and send him that? Will that work?
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And again...I just answered myself, didn't I? ;-) Sorry!
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@heather: Thanks for the reply. I was finally able to buy a gift from my home computer. Not sure what was going wrong when I was trying at work, but all's well now!
Merry Xmas, all!
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When giving the code to someone, does it tell them who the code is from when they activate it?
Just wanting to send gift code anonymously.
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My wife gifted me a pro account this morning and yet I have not pro status, she on the other hand got instant pro status.
What gives?
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fangars: she needs to go into the following page, whilst logged into her account:
www.flickr.com/account/
She needs to click on 'gifts you've purchased', which will take her here:
www.flickr.com/account/order/gifts/
She then needs to email you the Gift code from that page, or cut and paste it to you if you're on the same machine.
Now you sign in and go to:
www.flickr.com/account/
Click on 'extend your account' or 'upgrade your account' [not sure as I am Pro], which will take you here:
www.flickr.com/account/order/ [you could just go straight here]
Bottom right of that page, click on:
Have you been given a Flickr Gift? 'Activate it here'.
This will take you here:
www.flickr.com/gift/activate/
Paste or type the gift code into the box, and bingo!
You could each just go straight to that last page, but I've given you a routemap so you can find it again.
Enjoy...
...and for those who still don't grasp it, it's cool to buy yourself the gift of Flickr and get the three months free as well as applying the gift to your own account. I'm lucky, my account was to expire in 2 days, so I'm in the promo period, and stumbled across the offer, so I gave myself the gift. : )
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Today is the last day for this promotion, right?
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Gah.. I've bought two gifts of pro accounts in the last few months and managed to miss the promotion both times.. Whats fantastic luck I have..
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is this dead? can it be extended til the end of Feb?
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Last day was 31st Jan.
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I've managed to extend the 12+3 month offer just now, but main criticism would be that it's not obvious that you sign up to the 3 months first and not the other way round, i.e. you should check your account page closely otherwise you'll miss this.
Also within the "extend you account" page, the "activate your account" note isn't obvious. It's placed at the bottom rather than at the top.
Anyhow I'm looking forward to more flickering. Taraa.
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saiful k&i when you bought the gift of pro, 3 months are/were added to your own account immediately. The gift doesn't kick in until you, or the recipient, activates the code.
Apart from that....I'm surprised you got the extra three months !
There doesn't seem to be any indication from staff that the offer has been extended. And nothing on the payment pages to indicate it still kicks in.
mikehedge Don't know if you want to risk going through the payment procedure before staff realise someone didn't flick a switch !
*Disclaimer* At your own risk !
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I got it for myself last December after several months using flickr for free & was persuaded by fellow flickerites to sign up as pro.
I've just activated the one year sub. today (after 2ish months delay).
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Oh. I got the impression you just paid for a year and got three months free :/
So, um....mikehedge. Don't bother to 'risk it' !
Thanks for clearing that up.
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ya... I'm asking if I buy for someone right now, will get a gift of 3 months...
maybe... I doubt it, but maybe they will extend it to the end of Feb... being Valentines month and all...
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well, Heather or someone, I have gone ahead and bought several more gift Pro accounts for people. just thought I would go for it.
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So...when are they going to do this promotion again?
I didn't knew about this. Me and a friend of mine are about to upgrade our accounts.
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I just bought a gift but didn't get 3 months extra. Is the offer expired?
Oh wait, I now see that it was old news, apparently... it says 'between now and January 28' so maybe it's not valid anymore?
Heather, maybe you could add a notice to the original post saying it's expired because anyone who doesn't read carefully enough (like me) could think the offer is still valid.
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I got it for myself last December after several months using flickr for free & was persuaded by fellow flickerites to sign up as pro.
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