However, I did not get most of what was promised AND they charged me after I canceled before the trial period was over.

I recently was referred to Ron Legrand's REI courses and he uses Patlive.com/ronlegrand   I called them and they gave me a 14 day trial before switching it to the Ron Legrand program that gives more minutes for less than their regular plan. 

A lot of 'trial and error' and nasty calls from people who want off your mail lists. 

So far, I've been saying "ah man I don't know how I can pay that much for this property"  or some variation.

I've been told that same thing (different variations of course) by several people.

Originally posted by @RJ Browning: Having a rather small budget to work with on my first mailing campaign, I decided to spend a little more time on it and came up with a variation of Mail2flip's  mailing which places a photo of the property on the mailing to increase opening rate.

I'll probably perform some variation on this, but I just thought I'd ask what criteria has worked well for people as I'm brainstorming which we'll use.Thanks in advance.JTM

Luckily, I read their contract from top-to-bottom before clicking anything.If you accept ListSource's terms for your first "free list" (they make it appear as a trial) then you are actually entering yourself (or your company) into a legally binding agreement with ProLogic.

I just don't want to waste a lot of money doing trial and error. 

It is good to send a variation of mailers to your prospect because you will tap into different demographics.