Here is the text of an email I got this morning:
Dear MyPhotoAlbum User,
MyPhotoAlbum.com is closing on Tuesday May 3rd, 2011. All accounts, photos and videos will remain available until Tuesday May 31, 2011 at which time they will be deleted forever.
We sincerely apologize for this inconvenience but we simply cannot afford to remain in business.
We recommend that you register for an account at www.dotPhoto.com and upload your photos to that service. You can store, share and create photo products at dotPhoto.com, a great service that was founded in 1999. You can sign up for a dotPhoto.com account at https://www.dotphoto.com/JoinMPA.asp. If you are a current MyPhotoAlbum club member, enter your MyPhotoAlbum username and email address and dotPhoto will give you $10 store credit and also honor the remainder of your club membership.
Alternatively, you may also easily download all of your photos by purchasing an archive DVD. This product is normally $24.95 but we have reduced the price to our cost of $15.00 as a convenience for you. You can order your archive DVDs at http://coloradomillers.myphotoalbum.com/store.php?product=personalized_dvd
Please note, your photos will not be available as of May 31, 2011.
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This just makes me want to hurl. 10+ years of family photos! I am ordering the archive dvd. Then I’ll see how long it takes me to recreate our family photo albums somewhere else. If anyone has any good suggestions, I am all ears. In the meantime, I guess I’m uploading photos to my photo album on Facebook.
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