dotPhoto.com 60 Free 4x6 prints!

[BCC8]

http://www.dotphoto.com/ is offering 60 free 4x6 prints for new customers.

I just placed my order after uploading a ton of digital pics I took on a recent vacation. Also, their prices are lower than Ofoto and Shutterfly (29 cents for a 4x6 print). Be sure and sign up for the free membership as they also offer fee-based memberships. Free shipping on orders of $10 or more...otherwise it's $1.99.

http://www.dotphoto.com/

[Jeffbx]

Good find - thanx!

[dealsdyker]

I got in on this deal several months ago. The quality was very inferior to Shutterfly. I was dissatisfied. I emailed them and I think they offered to reprint them but I declined. Although the prices are cheaper, I never reordered. I went back to Shutterfly. Their print quality is outstanding.

PS, Shutterfly has a "tell a friend" deal where if you email a friend (through the Shutterfly site) and they sign up, you get 20 free prints. The friend doesn't have to do anything after that, although they get some free prints too. You can get up to 200 prints that way.

[BCC8]

I was wondering about dotPhoto's quality...I've used Ofoto before and been happy with their quality. But I guess if dotPhoto isn't that good then I didn't drop much cash anyways and I got a lot of prints.

[savvy]

I was very happy with the prints I got from dotphoto. I took advantage of this deal, and I'll be using them in the future. Their prices are much better than the other online print sites. I'd at least try the free 60 and see for yourself. (PS: No affiliation with this company--just a happy customer.)

[dealsdyker]

Originally posted by BCC8
I was wondering about dotPhoto's quality...I've used Ofoto before and been happy with their quality. But I guess if dotPhoto isn't that good then I didn't drop much cash anyways and I got a lot of prints.

Well, maybe they've gotten better. Let us know how the prints turn out in comparison. I ran 10 or 20 of the same prints I got a Shutterfly at dotPhoto for an apples-to-apples comparison and the colors were off, dotPhoto was darker, and not as crisp. Also, I like the date/timestamp that Shutterfly puts on the back of the prints, as well as the filename. At the time, dotPhoto didn't offer that. If you have good luck with them, maybe I'll give them another shot.

[savvy]

It's interesting to compare various film processing companies, because the colors and tones do vary. I got some from Ofoto and copies of the same pics from Shutterfly, and the results were very interesting. I liked the pictures of my grandchildren better from one, but the close-ups of flowers were way better from the other (can't remember which was which any more).

Even my local film developers vary. I had a close-up of a butterfly that came out very well, and so I took the negative to a photography store with an excellent reputation to have an enlargement made. Fortunately, I enclosed the snapshot copy. The enlargement was beautiful, but they enclosed a note saying that if I hadn't included the snap, they would have printed it very differently--and they enclosed a 4x6 of the way they would have done it. Colors were way different.