Serious question, did anyone else blow $3k on a lead list that was 80% dead emails?
Bought a 5,000 contact list from a vendor in January for $3,200 and after running it through a verifier, 4,100 were dead or bounced. My sender score tanked for 6 weeks and I had to pause all cold outreach until March. What are you all doing to vet list vendors before you pay?
Skip buying lists from random vendors. Run a test batch of 100 emails through a verifier before you pay for the full 5k, and ask them for a sample that hasn't been cleaned. Honestly most of these list sellers recycle the same dead data and just rebrand it. Get proof it works first or you are just burning cash and wrecking your sender score.