My company, Brothers in Beat was approached by Webmail to advertise with them. They offered to send 30 000 emails to their list. At the meeting Webmail employee Gary Cahoon showed me an excel sheet of responses to a previous email campaign that they sent for a company in the same industry as mine (team building). This excel sheet had many responses, I would estimate around 100 responses. It was based on this that I enterted into an agreement with Webmail Int.

I received TWO (2) responses.

When I cancelled the agreement they let me know that I’m still liable for 75% of the total. They are basically asking me to pay them R25 000 for two responses to an email mailer sent to 30 000 people (This terrible response rate demonstrates that Webmail is selling a poor quality product, since the same material sent by Webmail was also sent by our regular email marketing company, Interactive Direct and receives a great response. So it’s not our marketing material that’s at fault here.)

My advocate informed me that they misrepresented to me the potential number of responses that we could expect and that it was under that premise that we entered into the agreement with Webmail. My advocate also informed me that we could take the stance that we no longer consider ourselves under any obligation to pay Webmail, which we have done.

They are now threatening to list my company on the ITC. A quick Google search reveals that there are many, many people who are unhappy and feel cheated by Webmail.

DON’T USE WEBMAIL. You will seriously regret it.

If you have been scammed by this company please contact me on WebmailSucksBig@gmail.com and let’s stop them once and for all!!!