Archives for March 15, 2023

Action May Be Needed: Shutterfly to delete “inactive” accounts on March 29 in 2023

If you have a Shutterfly account and haven’t made a purchase during the last 18 months, your photos and projects will be deleted – permanently – on March 29 in 2023.

An “inactive” account/project is defined – by Shutterfly – as one that has not made a purchase during the last 18 calendar months.

You can download your photos by March 29 in 2023 if you don’t them to get permanently deleted. Projects cannot be downloaded.

Not affected by this are Lifetouch and JC Penney portraits by Lifetouch. Whatever that means 🙂

Any purchase, no matter how small in amount or size, can keep your account alive for another 18 months.

For more details check the FAQs at the Shutterfly Photo Storage policy page, where we learn you can also select a CVS or Walgreens in-store pickup for an order that will keep your account alive.

Meaning you can print a couple of 4x6s and pick them up at a CVS/Walgreens of your choice. Even if you don’t have any near you – you can send them to friends/relatives, or just somewhere out there. To avoid paying the shipping and handling fee 🙂

Thursday: LG 38″ Curved, SmallHD, SHAPE Bag, Manfrotto 504X, Lensbaby Optic Swap Spark Kits for $350 [8o], Etc

Yes, Thirsty Thursday is here and with it we have a fresh set of B&H Photo daily deals running until 3/16/23 at 11:59pm ET or earlier if sold out:

+ Lensbaby Optic Swap Spark Kits for $350, in eight options, thus the “8o” in the blog-post title 🙂
+ DSLR: Canon EF, Nikon F, Pentax K
+ MirrorNYET: Canon RF, Fuji X, M43rds, Nikon ZZTop, Sony E

+ Manfrotto 504X Fluid Video Head with 536 Carbon Fiber Tripod for $1050
+ or you can buy 105 Ritz-camera-type of tripods 😉

+ SHAPE Camera Bag with Removable Pouches for $183
+ bag the bag, pouch the pouches!

+ SmallHD Action 5 Touchscreen 5″ On-Camera Monitor for $259
+ that’s $52 per inch!

+ LG 38BN95C-W 38″ 21:9 UltraWide Curved for $1049
+ FreeSync HDR 144 Hz IPS Monitor
+ that’s $27.6 per inch!

+ Core SWX Powerbase EDGE Battery Bundle for Blackmagic Pocket Camera 6K & 4K for $138

UPDATE #1
Quiet things are at the Adorama dailies, there’s a mic stand kit for $20 and a Sennheiser RS195 wireless headphone system for $300.

THEN at the Amazon Gold Box we find a 42″ Insignia Fire TV 1080p for $180, and a phone accessories sale – among others…

UPDATE #2
To sale-a-brate March Madness 2023, the Monoprice website has launched limited time coupon code MARCH15 that gets you 15% off most things on their website. As usual, terms, conditions, restrictions, limitations, etc, etc, etc apply…

Monoprice launches a Rewards program

Rewards continue to be hot in the world of shopping, so the Monoprice website jumped on this bandwagon as well! They have launched their Preferred Rewards program that offers two type of benefits:

  1. volume pricing discount; the higher your reward tier, the more discounted units you can buy
  2. coupons twice a year; the higher the reward tier, the bigger the coupon discount

The reward tiers are determined by how much you spent at the Monoprice website the previous calendar year (1/1 through 12/31). Included in the qualifying amount are taxes and shipping fees.

It is a FREE rewards program – it should go without saying but a few times some merchants charge (hello AMEX), so I have to mention it 🙂