Tell HN: AWeber uses deceptive pricing
Just wanted to let everyone know that AWeber(email newsletters) counts your unsubscribes towards your total for billing purposes(Mailchimp apparently doesn't)...and not just the "subscribers" like they say on their pricing page.
And there is apparently no automated way to delete them...you have to delete them one at a time. Which I'm sure is intentional in order to make it harder to erase the unsubscribes.
True, it doesn't really make a lot of difference, I only ended up paying $50 instead of the $30 I expected this month(would have hit the $50 anyways next month), so it's peanuts...but I felt like letting people know since their pricing page is intentionally deceptive...and those of you with bigger email lists are probably overpaying by a large margin(especially if you are in the 10K range where it goes from $69/mo to $149/mo).
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[ 4.6 ms ] story [ 22.5 ms ] threada few do have the pay as you go plans that are based on # of emails sent...but they are all secondary products for them