Your statement seems to on intent attacking Getresponse, “poor delivery rate” is something i don’t think Getresponse gets called up on.

If anything, many people on forums are saying The delivery rate of getresponse and aweber are the SAME more or less..

So i would advise everyone to take what is posted sometime with abit of thinking, read around more places and see what the majority of people say. So read around if you want to have a better idea

Personally, Aweber turn me off with their pathetic attempt to increase price by $120 monthly to rip off IMarkters who already have a established list with them.

It might be better to start with Aweber, to same time from transferring from another auto responding service…if it’s not reliable. If you’re not into internet marketing, perhaps, Aweber is not for you.

Once I spent one hour on hold with them — and then they hung up on me before connecting. The next day they told me that no one was in the office at all.

Worse… email delivery was poor.

I switched to Aweber last year and they get 5 stars on all fronts. Great customer service. great Info. Great setup. Great delivery.

I’m rather surprised of the price increase which for 500 email at $19 is on the steep side for me.

It’s not without it’s issues. Some are major…

I currently have a responder that is set to read incoming e-mail and parse custom form data from there. It works flawlessly, that is when aweber’s mail server accepts incoming mail.

About 30% of the incoming mail is bouncing with a return that the responder is not a valid address. After 6 weeks of working on this from every angle aweber acknowledges it’s their issue but has yet to come up with a fix.

Another issue is a core functionality at Aweber. Messages scheduled to send 1 day apart can take up to 48 hours to send. So a 7 message – 7 day campaign can take up to 14 days to complete. This inconsistency is not good for my image.

The last issue that I’ve had is with personalization codes in html – specifically in the nofollow tag. If you use a field to modify a URL (say with an affiliate ID) it gets screwed up. The solution is to send text only.

There are a lot of alternatives for webmasters using both PHP and .NET (activecampaign.com for example). The advantages are that these options give you troubleshooting control. The downside is that without a person running interference with ISP’s you might end up with deliverability issues.

Any other more economical suggestions?

0 – 500 $19/month
501 – 2,500 $29/month
2,501 – 5,000 $49/month
5,001 – 10,000 $69/month
10,001 – 25,000 $149/month
25,000 + Contact Us

It’s gone up since this post was written, that was my point.

19.95 a month now gets you only 500 subscribers.
29.95 a month gets you up to 2500 and so on.
10,001 subscribers is a whopping 149.95 a month!!

How much are you paying for 60,000 Darren ?

I would have agreed with your assessment of Aweber…until this morning. One of my potential subscribers advised me that they could not sign up to my list because my account was shown as closed. I contacted Aweber and they advised that my account was closed because I had used Erik James’ co-registration system (started 8 days ago). The ad for my ezine is on one of Erik’s web pages and people have to double opt in to my ezine and then opt in once more to Aweber.com, otherwise they are not accepted to my list.

Aweber has closed my account and refused to re-open it despite my offer to remove the co-regs. What made it worse is that they claimed that they sent me an email which I never received. When I challenged this they admitted that my paid email provider (optusnet.com.au) had banned them for deemed “spam”. So Aweber itself has been banned by my paid provider!! – what’s it all coming to?

I challenged the system and got through to a supervisor who reluctantly agreed to give me a back-up of my leads which I had built up over two years.

So I have to start again too.

Their main lacking it only support Latin text. Forget about other text such as, Chinese, Urdu, Arab, Thai, Japs, etc.
I really hope the developer would take a serious matter into these. It would benefit them in many way.

Another complaint that I have is their customer service. With the amount of fees that I am paying, I feel I should receive a better customer service. Talking to them feel like talking to a robot. Help from customer service does not help at all.

However, I’d really hate to switch autoreponder service providers. That seems like it would be a real pain. As a result, I’m considering aweber.

“Starting Your First Email Campaign?
Get started today for just $19 a month and send email follow ups and newsletters to up to 500 subscribers.

Or, pay $193.80 annually and save $34.20 every year. You won’t pay anything more until you profit from the increased sales and traffic your subscribers generate.”

Far away from 19.95 for 10,000 subscribers?!?

Got no complains. High delivery rate. Split testing tools for web forms and broadcast messages. Fast send out on broadcast and dependable follow ups.

What more can I ask for? Their analytical reports are comprehensive too.

Aweber – I say it is value for money, considering the price you pay.

Cheers,
Jag

I want to deliver a report (spreadsheet) as an attachment to an e-mail on a monthly subscription basis.

For those of you who utilize monthly (or otherwise) paid subscriptions, how do you do it?

Digitally yours,
Joe

My ISP openly says they will cancel the account without notice if I send bulk mail.

Thanks for the review.