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By: Najee

Najee — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 15:07:19 +0000

That is so true about Google. They are behaving like the early years of eBay. Sent me an email with the subject ‘Final Notice’. This was the first time they emailed and it’s the Final Notice.

In this email they allege our Ad does not conform and included a long list of what the reason could be. I went over our Ad and could not find anything wrong. So I emailed the all Almighty asking for an explanation. Two weeks have passed and no reply.

In the meantime, they sent me a survey asking me to rate the quality of service provided by the government of Google.

What can I say?

On AutoResponders, I use GetResponse and so far they have been good. Let’s hope they don’t start behaving like Aweber.

I wish these people understood the effort required in building these mailing lists. If we are in some way out of compliance, work with us to get in compliance.

Good Luck guys – the road to financial freedom is not easy but we aren’t quitters either so move forward despite these people / governments.

By: Matt Whelan

Matt Whelan — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 08:28:42 +0000

The answer to the Aweber CEO’s “why would we do that unless we were absolutely positively sure
that our terms of service were being broken?” is “because you can, you big bullies”. Work with the customer to resolve the issue, don’t come down with the heavy-handed “we own you, we cancel you”.

These people are pathetic – “we’re big and tough, we won’t bother letting you solve the problem, we’ll just shut you down”. Google-style arrogance – and as with Google, we should be voting with our feet and taking our business elsewhere.

And making as much noise about it as possible to stop customer sign-ups – this is the third example I’ve seen of the Google-style heavy handedness in a few weeks.

Funny to see this from the company responsible for mountains of SPAM all over the net because they let themselves get hacked and their customers’ lists get downloaded.

These days I won’t sign up to an Aweber-hosted list without creating a new throwaway email address for it.

And I’ll certainly never use their service.

Frank, thanks for taking the time to post the full story!

Regards,

Matt

By: Robin Grayson

Robin Grayson — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 16:45:20 +0000

Thanks Frank for sharing & keeping your post available. I am thankful I ran across your post. I just signup for the trial a few days ago. I am going to cancel immediately. Thanks again, rg

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By: Jon Olson

Jon Olson — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 17:32:19 +0000

So sad but I’m here to say I was another victim of aWeber.

They basically told me my business wasn’t wanted about a year ago. I made the switch and haven’t looked back.

I dunno, I kind of like being with an autoresponder company that actually appreciates all the business I send their way.

By: martin

martin — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 19:59:05 +0000

granny, go make a sweater or something, you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about, don*t use the internet – it*s dangerous in your hands – quote *one inside my computer [which nobody uses but me]* look for the one inside your head. with an old woman like freda you can find yourself hunted down by police, army and termites with no reason. granny maybe somebody from your own family used your credit card to buy something on the internet from your computer

By: Freda

Freda — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 19:32:21 +0000

I have had the same, only different, situation with Paypal. Sometime around the first of June they let somebody charge $197.00 to my debit card.
I called PP immediately when I noticed on my bank
statement 7/10. All they would say the computer that took the order had my IP # attached to it. [I had googled the url that was charged the money was a company based in India with 2 Indian men as CEOs.
The outcome with PP? I was told when I asked what
was the IP # used in the transaction they told
me I would have to have a subpoena [from a lawyer]
before the IP # was released to me. They were wrong. My lawyer told me a subpoena had to come from a judge. The reason I need the IP # is that I have 2 – one inside my computer [which nobody uses but me] and one outside on the wireless connection which 2 are 1 digit apart. Anybody could have found my IP # off my computer because I found it and I am not technical at all.

By: Ken Harthun

Ken Harthun — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 18:54:57 +0000

Great post, Frank. My list isn’t big enough to generate much noise, but thanks to you, Guido, and Rodger Hyatt’s #Ad-Swap# room, my eyes are now open. I was getting ready to set up a membership site integrated with Aweber, but now I think I’ll hold off. I may just use my own AR solution.

And I’ll certainly backup my AR on a regular basis, just in case I run afoul of the AR overlords.

Anyway, thanks for the in-depth analysis and keep up the good work.

Cheers!
Ken Harthun
The Internet Marketing Geek

By: Rodger Hyatt

Rodger Hyatt — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 18:13:09 +0000

Thank god i got my own dedicated and row my own boat..

I seen this coming ages ago

Best of luck Frank!

…Rodger

(are 5 blank lines okay for my sig? LOL)