Mailing List Cleaning Service

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Have a mailing list? Need to verify it before you use your valuble resources to send messages that will never get there?

Here is the answer. For as little as $0.002 per address, I will use my specialty software that I created to take your mailing list, clean any invalid addresses, and ensure that the users are who they say they are.

Pricing ranges are as follows:

0-200: FREE
<1000: $0.02 per address
1001-10000: $0.015 per address
10001-100000: $0.009 per address
100001-1000000: $0.002 per address
1000000+: PM me for custom pricing

I only accept payment upon the COMPLETION of the scan. Once you pay, I will send you the cleaned list. I will show up to 200 email addresses to confirm that the list has been cleaned.

Jason
 


Curious what some of the email experts have to say about this. Just seems steep to me. $430 to check 1000 addresses? Did you possibly misplace the decimal point?
 
Yea, that's a little steep. Just 1 of my lists would cost 1.1 mil.
 
What makes your software so good compared to the ones online? Wouldn't it be cheaper for someone to just buy the software than to pay you everytime they need to check their mail lists?
 
0352 said:
Yea, that's a little steep. Just 1 of my lists would cost 1.1 mil.
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For that kind of volume, you can PM me and we can work out a custom deal.

What makes your software so good compared to the ones online? Wouldn't it be cheaper for someone to just buy the software than to pay you everytime they need to check their mail lists?
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The difference is that my software actually checks not only the validity of the address, but the presence of the address, among other factors. The script also checks many blacklists and eliminates many "honeypots" this way.

Jason
 
Forgot to add the answer to the last portion of the question...

With every mailing list cleaning, I provide the service for free for the same mailing list in 1-5 month intervals (at the customer's choosing). This ensures that the list is clean and stays clean.

Jason
 
I'm not sure I get the point of this, sorry.

People who mail - those that do it seriously - have millions of addresses. These are the ones that are worrying about spam traps, scraped (and, just for everyone else's reference, scraped has one 'p') addresses that don't work, and other nasties. To them invalid addresses might be a big deal (I honestly don't know), since they're using server time to send out millions of messages to addresses that simply don't exist.

More pertinent is their worry of getting a spam trap in there if the list was not properly collected.

For these people your service is most likely prohibitively expensive.

I'm thrusting in the dark here a little, because I'm not a mailer, so feel free to correct me.

Nobody in this game is going to have a list of less than 200. Those that have lists less that 200 in size are those that have collected them by hand, with aWeber or its many siblings, or by some home made script. Either way it's unlikely that sending this many (or 10x this many) is really going to put any real strain on any server. Why would I care that much if 100 emails weren't getting through? Sure, I'd be disappointed for the intended recipient because they couldn't make the most of my offer, but really it matters fuck all to me in terms of server resources.

In short: people with mailing list sizes that small are not anywhere near serious enough to need a list 'cleaner'. In fact, it's easy enough to just remove bounced email addresses as and when the notification appears in your inbox.

So I don't really get who you're aiming at with this. Please treat this message as it is intended: from someone who is genuinely interested in working out what your service is intended to do.

Thanks.
 
Lee,

I see your point and will reevaluate my pricing to reflect that. I was not thinking about the potential sizes of mailing lists when I made the pricing schema, and I will reevaluate it today.

The purpose of this service was originally to simply get rid of the bad addresses so that mailing resources were not used sending messages that would not arrive anywhere, therefore reducing the bounce rate. I have since refined the service to include other forms of checking, such as blacklist verification so that most, if not all, spamtraps will be eliminated. Appearantly I developed a service for high-volume senders without pricing it as such, and I apologize for that.

Jason
 
Hey, absolutely no reason to apologise. It's your product, do what you like with it!

Thanks for the explanation though; I hope that in some twisted way I've helped.
 
DomainRealty: You may want to talk to Skrilla or one of the other high volume mailers to see what they think of your service, and what they would consider a reasonable price. It sounds like you have a useful service, but like you said, you didn't take into account the size of mailers' lists, so maybe one of them can steer you in the right direction. Hopefully, their advice would help you to offer your service at a value that helps the people that need it and that is equitable for you.

Also, can your script handle lists of that size and if so, at what speed?
 
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DomainRealty: You may want to talk to Skrilla or one of the other high volume mailers to see what they think of your service, and what they would consider a reasonable price. It sounds like you have a useful service, but like you said, you didn't take into account the size of mailers' lists, so maybe one of them can steer you in the right direction. Hopefully, their advice would help you to offer your service at a value that helps the people that need it and that is equitable for you.

Also, can your script handle lists of that size and if so, at what speed?
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Thanks for the advice, I am typing a PM to him now.

The speed is actually all based on server load, so I can't honestly say that it is instantaneous. Based on my experience, it takes about an hour to clean and verify 1,000 addresses. This is something I plan to optimize in the future (working on it now).

The script handles quite a few addresses at a time (I have tested it with up to 10k sucessfully). Worst case scenario, I can split the list up. Takes the same amount of time ;)

Jason
 
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