Sending 100,000 Purchased Emails

When you set up your own smtp, you will most likely be using IPs that have neutral IP reputation at best. So there will be domains that don't inbox.

The only reason I setup my own smtp's is because I'm sending aged / non targeted data and I need the cost to be as low as possible. I then domain target the data against the IPs and just send to the domains I can get reasonable deliverability.

There is nothing cheap or easy about going this route and you have to know what you are doing / how to do it right. Beware of services that say you can send purchased data. IMO...almost all are just a bunch of BS. They will set you up on a handful of IPs, which will never send much volume. If you try and get IPs in volume, they will want to charge you some rip off price, if they can even provide

However, if you get very fresh / vertically targeted, data then you can send with autoresponders, because the data will be more responsive and you can handle the additional costs to send using them. Plus, you are sending on shared IPs, so the IP reputation is based on all users. So you should for the most part, get decent deliverability.

Anyway, that's my 2 cents.

Yeah true, I heard they are very good, and:

You can buy a pre-verified list from datadepot.biz
and also send it out with them. Bought a 1 million
B2B list from them and sent out about 500k/month

No troubles at all, clean B2B list, only 1-2%
non-deliverables, no blacklisting or any
spam complains. And they are not the only
ones that do that, i know another 2 companies

you want to send 10Mil with any of these,
no problem. Commercial email that BIG
companies do is different than aweber,
the little guys prefer...besides, it is not what
these guys call "spam" - these are all opt-in lists
where each person gave consent to receive
3rd party offers.

So the joke is on the guys that think
big numbers equals some type of illegal
activity. Total BS. It's all law abiding daily
biz of people that have a better understanding
than 90% on this email forum, you just
repeat the "aweber mantra" and have no
idea what email marketing in big numbers
really looks like.

The only problem with above scenario:
You need to study the guys first that teach
"how to make a first contact with a cold list"
or you will loose your shirt. There is a way
to make a cold list respond, and these
guidelines must be followed, or nobody gets
any response, there is a certain formula...

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I just looked at their site and they only allow B2B lists. It also looks like they will not allow any domain that is of an ISP / email provider...gmail, yahoo, etc...They where closed and I could not contact / verify, but my takeaway is that all domains must be of a business MyBusinessName.com, as I'm guessing they filter out ISP/email providers.

This is from their FAQ

Does Clickback MAIL software work with B2C customers?
Unfortunately, no. It's a lot more difficult to get cold emails delivered to large ISPs, such as Gmail and Yahoo, with a B2C list than it is with a B2B list. Also, recipients are much more likely to report consumer-facing emails as 'spam.'

So for most, it's not a viable option, as most will want to send B2C lists.

Also, if I was sending B2B, I wouldn't use them because their pricing is high and I see no reason to spend so much.

I tried importing lists to aweber, and these were not purchased but opt-in leads from a different service. Aweber did not allow the import although I provided them with the optin page, timestamp, IPs etc.

So what you say is only part true. It's in their discretion whether they allow import or not.
They can and will simply deny if they think it could lead to complaints and bounces