WARNING! AWeber sending BLANK messages and NOT taking responsibility. You might be losing money!

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Hi people,

For the past few days, my subscribers were being sent BLANK messages from AWeber. I`ve had many issues with AWeber before, such as links not working, etc, but this was too much.

I lost over $1000 because of that, because I was paying for the traffic, and I did not make any sales. But the worst thing is, AWeber does not take any responsibility!

I am using AWeber for a few years now, I always write just the plain text message, and never fill in the HTML field. I ALWAYS test my messages after saving them. And I never had any problems with my messages being sent.

Everything was working fine until a few days ago, when my subscribers started to get blank messages. Imagine the situation - people subscribe, confirm, and are being sent a blank message instead of being sent what they subscribed for. I don`t need to tell you what response you would start getting, and what impact this could have on your business.

Now, I am sure you want to know why it happened.

I talked to AWeber managers yesterday, and seems like it`s very simple (ah, of course it is, stupid me!)

The reason my messages go out blank is because I have Skype running on my PC!

How do you like that???

They started to explain me that when I write the message on AWeber, Skype enters plain text on the HTML field somehow, and this is why a blank message is being sent.

I would not be so mad if they would have had this as a warning somewhere, or stated that in their terms or wherever, but now they don`t tell a word, and when this happens, they say "yes, that`s Skype!".

They say they cannot add any warning because there are thousands of applications out of their control, not just Skype, that can do the same.

BUT why not warn people that things like that can happen? I am sure I am not the only one losing my money, subscribers and their trust, and having this nightmare with AWeber! We are losing money, and they don`t even care to let us know about these types of situations.

They say they cannot control third party applications, and I DO understand that. But again - I would not be that mad if they had that stated somewhere.

So that`s a warning for you - anytime you use AWeber, make sure you always shut down Skype, Word, email, any other applications you are using, close your eyes, and go hide in the closet, otherwise your messages will go out blank!!

All the best!
Alex
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