Single Opt-in Subscriber With Aweber is Pending Confirmation

I have the same thing - one subscriber as "confirmation pending" and I'm using single opt-in. I was thinking, could it be because the subscriber's email address is not valid, i.e. there's a typo on it?

You can do exactly the same with single opt-in.

Some of the arguments commonly adduced in favor of confirmed opt-in (there's no such thing as "double opt-in" - that's just a misnomer for "confirmed opt-in" - nobody actually opts in twice: they just confirm their email addresses to be subscribed to the list ) are entirely specious and based on fallacies.

My main reason for using single opt-in is that I earn more, that way.

I'm not interested in the "argument" that the quality of the list is better if opt-in confirmation is used, because all those "higher quality subscribers" are still subscribing to my single opt-in lists anyway, so it's just not a realistic, "straight-thinking" argument at all.

I'm not interested in the "spam complaints argument", either: the proportion of spam complaints you get depends on what you send and how you send it and the expectations of the recipients, all of which you can control. If someone's going to forget who you are, six months later, and "report spam", having confirmed their email address at the time they originally opted in isn't going to make the slightest difference. I don't for a moment believe that whether or not people will unsubscribe or even "report spam" at some later stage has anything to do with whether or not they originally confirmed their email address at the time they subscribed: they won't even remember that.

There are some more legitimate arguments in favor of opt-in confirmation, too (though not always the ones claimed by autoresponder companies!), but I think - from repeated conversations here - that it's fair to say, at least, that you won't find very many successful marketers outside the IM/MMO markets using confirmed opt-in, these days.

If you want to see more reasoning in favor of single opt-in (including explanations from many successful marketers inside the IM/MMO niches about why they, too, now use single opt-in), here are some threads to look through, in which both perspectives are given a good airing.

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post7869184
http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post7227054
http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post7099949
http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post6879743
http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5221336

I've tried this on old lists and even new ones. I don't get that option

I have an account that is about 7-8 years old but I still have that option. You might want to contact and ask them. One thing to note though is that you cannot change a double optin list back to a single optin list once that list has it's first subscriber. It has to be changed before you start collecting any leads at all.

I had the same problem. After years of having my subscribers in my health niche confirm I decided to go single-optin but could not find how to change it.

After contacting Aweber support about it they said I had an old account and would have to upgrade to get this option but would lose my old statistics if I did this.

They said that I could have single optin on my existing account if I started a new list so that is what I did. I do not have all the facilities of the newer accounts like finding the non opens and sending another broadcast just to that segment but I pay a flat rate which is cheaper than paying according to how many subscribers you have.

Sandy