Email services i.e. OptInDataList - R there any reliable services

Hello,

I have a product that I, of course, want to sell. My website is up. Working on Affiliate Recruitment. Have tracking in place. Established relationship with InterCash to pay Affiliates with debit cards, etc.

But my question really has nothing to do with those things. I want to send out a targeted email campaign to, let's say, everyone who opted in to receive emails about new gadgets or phones or new products. I do not have my own list. I need a reliable service that can provide these services. So I am asking for any referrals from those of you that have used services such as these.

I tried OptInDataList - dot - com for a large Affiliate recruitment campaign. And, I do not know what happened, but the open rate was decent (around 24%), but the CTR was horrible. I.e. sent out 1.3 million emails, 315,399 opened as of now, 18 total click throughs. 18 not 18%, 18 as in 15, 16, 17, 18. Ad was professionally written, signup link isn't convoluted and asks for the minimum amount of information needed.

Plus, I was tracking the campaign through the campaign statistics tracker they offer and, I don't know, it seemed a little suspect. For instance, when I started keeping tabs I would refresh every minute and another 780-790 emails would have been sent, roughly 20%-30% of the 780 of 790 showed as "being opened". But in the first two hours of the campaign it said they served over 800,000 emails and had roughly a 27% open rate. It slowed down after I started refreshing every minute.

So...I just don't feel real comfortable with them and am looking for referrals to companies that provided successful campaigns to any Warriors. Any advice would be extremely appreciated.

Thanks!