sorry to disappoint you, my friend, but aweber IS expensive as fuck. I mean, when you compare it to other platforms that do the same thing for 2x-10x less money... well, they are very expensive, especially for newbies or those with limited budgets like I used to have since 10 years ago when I got into the making money online industry. With a few exceptions of 2-3 consecutive years my monthly budget had always been less than $100 for doing SEO, email marketing, or making money online in general. And for such people aweber is a very expensive alternative (trafficwave, aiop,or birdsend had been much better alternatives, albeit they don't offer the same quality as aweber but who needs that high level of quality when you don't even know how to do email marketing properly?)