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Seriously cannot trust a new product offering from anyone these days. Newsletters and transactional emails are not the same service. I signed up a client for t
by rwhitman 11y ago
Seriously cannot trust a new product offering from anyone these days.
Newsletters and transactional emails are not the same service. I signed up a client for transactional emails on Mandrill because the client was already locked into a newsletter vendor who doesn't support transactional emails. Now I need to explain to them why they need a second monthly newsletter vendor subscription? One that serves no purpose to their marketing team and was totally free until recently.
Plus I get the honor of having to justify why I made this choice in the first place. Or have to deal with scrambling to evaluate and migrate to a new vendor in less than 2 months, probably out of pocket too.
I purposely pointed the client to Mandrill because it was backed by Mailchimp and therefore less likely to fail than a startup.
I trust in a new product from an established company, and a year later come up looking foolish to my client. This isn't the first time Mailchimp has pulled the rug out from under me in front of a client. Not making the same mistake again. You're dead to me Mailchimp. Dead to me.
- kkt262 11y agoYou and thousands of others man. I f*ckin hate Mailchimp.
- homero 11y agoScum bags
- etjossem 11y agoHi - Eric from SendGrid here. We're the established company that invented the transactional category, and our transactional product is not going away anytime soon. Our CEO Sameer just greenlit a deal for former Mandrill customers. Hopefully it helps ease the transition. https://sendgrid.com/blog/hey-mandrill-customers-wed-love-the-opportunity-to-serve-you/ https://sendgrid.com/blog/hey-mandrill-customers-wed-love-th... Straight to the discount: https://go.sendgrid.com/switch.html https://go.sendgrid.com/switch.html
- jrperina 11y agoHi this is Joshua Perina, CEO of Elastic Email. http://elasticemail.com http://elasticemail.com has a very simliar pricing structure to Mandrill including 25000 emails per month free. We've been around since 2010, are growing fast and have sent billions of emails. Plus, we love our customers. Mandrill refugees are welcome!