Photobucket is money hungry!

I was paying .99 per month to get rid of adds. But the site still locks, up and won't function the way it's supposed to. I com-plain and they say what to do. I tell them I was doing that already and doesn't work. Then the flood of excuses and no help. If I gotta pay, I went to imageshack.com. Works perfectly.

Is Image Shack worth $4 a month just to post a few photos on a couple of forums. Isn't there a free one that might work?

I went to postimage. You can use it by just uploading pics then copying the link like photobucket did or you can create an ID that just requires your email and password for login. By creating the ID you can create galleries to upload your pics to. It was real easy to use and it was real fast uplaoding the images and I dont see any pop up ads.

What am I doing wrong? This is what I get when I do a copy and paste from PostImage.

%5Burl=%5B/img%5D%5B/url%5D

The little blank square is what I get when I have tried several sites. Did not get it with Photobucket and did not get it with Image Shack. Did the same thing on all of them, what's different.