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What to do???

by stesnees
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Hi guys, heres the deal.

A friend of mine has some e-mail scraper software. Yesterday he sent me a list of 500 e-mail addresses in the 'make money online' niche. Now I'm not really sure what to do with this as it obviously isn't MY list, and it would surely be spamming to just start sending off mail to all these people.
Just a bit of advice would be nice please. What would you do with these addys? Should I just delete and forget or could they be useful?
Thanks

Steve
  • Profile picture of the author iuditg
    People would certainly think this as a spam atleast I would
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  • Profile picture of the author erichammer
    I would delete them and tell your friend to build lists legitimately. Aside from the fact that I despise people who scrape Email addresses, I also write a blog for a list broker and have done extensive research on the subject of scraped lists as a result.

    Such lists have extremely low delivery levels and even lower conversion levels (if you had a million such Emails, from what I understand, you might get around 20-30% delivered and you might make one or two sales. With 500 Email addresses, the odds are it will be a total waste of time).

    In addition to that, there have numerous cases where people bought or were given lists of dubious origin and they later found themselves the subject of lawsuits under the CAN SPAM act.

    Bottom line, there are no shortcuts anymore to building a list. Unless your friend did the hard work of building a quality list with double opt ins (in which case the list is useful if a bit small), it's at best a waste of your time and at worst a chance to get sued.

    Eric

    P.S. Even though I write a blog for a list broker, I have no other relationship with him and don't promote his site in any other way. I'm just posting what I've learned in my research while writing for him.
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    • Profile picture of the author stesnees
      Originally Posted by erichammer View Post

      I would delete them and tell your friend to build lists legitimately. Aside from the fact that I despise people who scrape Email addresses, I also write a blog for a list broker and have done extensive research on the subject of scraped lists as a result.

      Such lists have extremely low delivery levels and even lower conversion levels (if you had a million such Emails, from what I understand, you might get around 20-30% delivered and you might make one or two sales. With 500 Email addresses, the odds are it will be a total waste of time).

      In addition to that, there have numerous cases where people bought or were given lists of dubious origin and they later found themselves the subject of lawsuits under the CAN SPAM act.

      Bottom line, there are no shortcuts anymore to building a list. Unless your friend did the hard work of building a quality list with double opt ins (in which case the list is useful if a bit small), it's at best a waste of your time and at worst a chance to get sued.

      Eric

      P.S. Even though I write a blog for a list broker, I have no other relationship with him and don't promote his site in any other way. I'm just posting what I've learned in my research while writing for him.
      Thanks for that Eric,
      I thought that a scraper would be a waste of time to be honest, as when I personally receive unsolicited e-mails I just delete them without reading. I will delete them and continue to build properly.
      Cheers for the reply
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