For those of you who don't want to read the whole thing, the short version is this:
They are liars and scammers and they'll just take your $60 and feed you bogus leads.
Long version: I'm using IPAS2 to generate a residual income online and I was looking for affordable but targeted traffic. If you are here then I'm assuming you know about all the promises USA Lead Club make about their traffic quality. Basically they say it's all brand new leads, 135 per day. They say every lead has already answered yes to 3 questions. 1) Have you got a valid credit card? 2) Are you ready to invest $100 in the right opportunity? 3) Are you ready to get started in the next 30 days? And they say the lead is now expecting to hear about offers from you.
This all sounds pretty good at first. There is even an email blaster built in so you can send all your emails right there in the menu. Or you can download the leads and import them somewhere else.
BUT...
The first 135 leads I imported into my auto response service returned on 17 opened emails. Almost immediately 15 reported my email as spam. 1 Unsubscribed. That leaves only 1 person who was semi ok with receiving my email. They did not click on the link within. Oh and also 10 emails bounced.
So I emailed support and told them.
They responded saying these leads were indeed expecting my emails and that they would provide another 135 leads, which they did. They also said they recommend using their email broadcaster if I was concerned with approval from GetResponse.
Well I was concerned, but I found that USA Lead Club have a no refund policy, so I replied to them with this:
Hi there,
Thanks for your previous reply. I took your advice and have sent the last 2 emails from the leadclub broadcaster.
Not one click from the 15 emails which have been opened so far. Of the 17 people who opened my first email sent from getresponse, 15 people reported it as spam.
It doesn't seem like these people are expecting an email from me at all.
I'm a little worried that just as many people are reporting my latest 2 emails as spam from the broadcaster but there's no way for me to tell.
If I want to send another email to a block of 135 who I've sent to already, then I'm potentially spamming a lot of people who have already asked me to stop right?
I will keep testing the leads for the month I've paid for but I'll need to see a lot of conversions to justify feeling so spammy :D
So 2 questions: If someone reports my broadcast email as spam, will your system remove them from my list for future emails to the same block of 135?
Also, what happens if someone replies to one of these broadcast emails?
Thanks,
Alistair
This was their reply:
Hi there
Welcome to the USA Lead Club Help Desk.
Any leads deciding they do not wish to receive emails, can opt-out of mailings at the bottom of the message you send them and will no longer receive your email ads.
The system auto-replaces opted out leads with fresh leads within 24 hours after each mailing.
Please contact us at any time, with any requests or questions you may have with your account.
So after another bulk email to all my leads, and after still no clicks from any of them, I sent this to support:
Hi,
I'm assuming you get emails like this one all day long. So here's one more...
I'm now convinced that you are just blatant liars. There is no way these leads are targeted. Even if they are then they certainly aren't being told to expect an email from me.
I suspect that they are not even fresh leads but old ones. I strongly suspect they have never answered 3 questions.
This is why your broadcaster shows no negative stats. No bounce or complaint rate. If I was spamming people and getting clicks that would maybe be worth the $30 a month.
I HAVE NOT HAD A SINGLE CLICK FROM THE 1620 emails I have sent out. 147 emails opened and I bet all of them just clicked the spam button.
I'm definitely going to have to cancel my account. But not yet. Not till I finish spamming out the whole month just to prove my point. Then I can take some impressive screenshots and show everyone that USALeadClub is a huge scam.
No thanks,
Alistair Mahoney
That must have freaked them out a little because within a few hours I got this:
Hi Alistair,
It appears your mailing has caused an issue in the mail queue. I have notified our programmer about the issue and hopefully there is a resolution shortly. In the meantime I have refunded your $60.00 and I will let you know when you can join again.
Sorry for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience while we investigate further.
Unfortunately they disabled my account before I could go back in and take screenshots. But basically after sending out about 7 or 8 emails, each with 135 MORE leads than the last, I can assure you that none of these emails are reaching targeted leads. Even if your emails make it to an actual person's eyes. This person will just click the spam button and carry on with their life.
Stick to getting leads the old fashioned way. By actually being a trustworthy person with something people want :D
Hope this has helped save you from wasting $60.
This system is the one I'm using to build a real residual income from home. Check it out if you like.