Free Digital Photo Prints Deals Note Discussion

skychick

Hello all,
I could do with some help as have become and little disorientated after looking at so many different photo printing websites!

I took a career break and went travelling for the best part of year and have only just got around to putting the photos on my laptop from memory cards, burned discs, friends facebook pictures etc etc.

I have about 3000 photos that I would like to print and put into albums. The best ones I'll have enlarged to frame but I find it really difficult to do that from a computer screen (and I'd like to have them all printed and in albums the old fashioned way anyway!)

There seem to be different prices but also different deals - but all aimed at the 200 pic market, which makes 50 free prints seem like a good deal. Unfortunately that doesn't really make much of a mark in 3000

I'm also not sure of the best size (as some sites seem to have really small sizes available) and the different printing options (matt, glossy, semi-matt). Which would be the best?

I had an amazing time on my travels, and would recommend it to all if you can find the money to do it! :T

Thanks

JAG

You want to pick digital photo sizes because if you choose 6x4 they crop the pictures because digital camera's default ratio is not 6x4. So you may have heads cropped off if they are in the part of the photo they crop.

If you are putting them in an album make sure that the prints will fit. If it only takes 6x4 prints and you have chosen digital format sizes make sure they will fit.

I have found Matt is better for my photographs. You don't get the shinny reflective surface that comes with glossy.

steviecas

I tried this several times. Could get to the bonusprint site ok, but there was an error when I clicked on the'Get Started' button, and it simply would not work.

frugal_Maz

I've seen a better offer than the ones on this site: HotPrints offers FOUR free photo books every month to all customers worldwide.

There is only a small shipping & handling charge of £1.99 (or US$2.99, €2.99) for each of the books to any shipping address in the world.

I can't add a link to their site as I'm a new user, but just search for HotPrints on Google and they are at the top.

Registration is free, and there's no application to download - it's all done online.

:j

zolabud123

After receiving the Moneysaving E mail today I have just spent the last hour or so fiddling around on the 'Say Cheese' website and ordered a free photo book.It was a bit fiddly as I said but I persevered and got there in the end.

On Martins mail it also said there was a free flip calendar.
I have looked through all the photo deals and I cannot find it anywhere.
Can anyone point me in the right direction please?

Many thanks.

chipmunky

http://www.bonusprint.co.uk/pages/free-flip-calendar_nov2010_ert.htm

The free flip calendar was through Bonusprint, but the offer ended on the 14th Nov. The Vistaprint calendar is definitely worth paying the P&P cost. Check out the free calendar post on the freebies low spend board.

Oupapete

Ordered a free album on all say cheese no problem, but when placing the order had to give details such as address and phone number. Now it may be coincidence but a few hours later received a call from a 'market researcher' who repeated all the details I had given then proceeded to tell me I was taking part in a customer survey. Now it is possible that these could have been gleaned from elsewhere. He then queried me about my Sky use ( I don't have sky), and when I questioned him about who he represented the answers were vague. I hung up at this point. I wonder if there truly is something for nothing out there? I personally think that these albums are a great answer to the problems of digital photography and was wanting a sample (in reality this is all you get). I have used Jessops CEWE and it is cost effective - a wedding album for 50 quid as opposed to 200!

zolabud123

I went onto the Say Cheese website yesterday and downloaded their doo dah to make it all work and immediately the download started I got a message from my virus checker saying I had a potential threat.
I completed the download and clicked on the 'Clean computer' message and looked at the results afterwards.Apparently I had an Adaware virus which follows the sites I have been looking at.Not a major threat but a threat all the same.
I carried on and managed to order a flip book.
It remains to be seen whether it turns up,but my order was accepted.

Then I went onto the Snapfish site to get some cheap prints.
I had seen that they do 40 prints for 99p postage and not finding anything on their site I spoke to a customer services advisor who said that they are not doing such a deal at the moment,but if I regularly looked at the website I would see when any new deals came out.

On the subject of calendars from Vistaprint I can thoroughly recommend getting those as I got 4 this time last year.
All I paid was 3 quid odd for P+P and I was very pleased with them.

zolabud123

I have just ordered a Vistaprint calendar but when I looked on their website I couldn't see a free calendar link...

So I went through the slightly fiddly upload process and right at the end was stung for a bill for £12 odd.
This consisted of £5 odd for the calendar.
£1,99 upload fee...Slow postage,£3.00 odd and TAX at £1.80.

I didn't realise it would cost so much but I need a present for the Great Grandma.
After going through all that I just paid with Paypal and thought s*d it.
I shan't be ordering any more from them this year...

chipmunky

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/2810220

If you'd followed the link from the freebies low spend board it would have only cost you P&P. Sorry I didn't post the link when I recommended it to you. If you need any more presents for Grandma, the free albelli photobook (follow link from the 1st page of Freebies Low Spend https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/2763866) is good for £3.95 postage.