The big companies are telling you that the NUMBER of EMAIL ADDRESSES/CONTACTS significantly affects the price. NOT true! Whether you have 50, 100, 5,000 or 100,000 contacts is REALLY INDIFFERENT. Whether 50 or 100,000 contacts need to be stored on a disk is mind-numbingly indifferent. The price difference is minimal, if there is any at all.
But what does a person who is not IT-savvy know? Alas, yes, the world will be deceived. So you ask: How can they get away with it? They can do this because they exploit a phenomenon that is well-known in the history of technology: A new product comes to the market. No one has any idea what it costs.
They think: "If you have 100,000 contacts, you're probably a big company with a lot of money, so you have to pay more." It's value-based pricing disguised as a technical necessity.
I started in 1993 by punking the publishing world in Denmark. EDB books cost c. 300kr for a 300-page book (Technical Publishing). I wrote, invented and published the world's first IT booklet for a ridiculous 28kr, which contained as much as a 128-page book, for only 28kr and sold around the year 2000 eight million IT booklets in Europe and millions of free PDF files have been downloaded since 1995. I was in all newspapers and the TV news. Click the link.
Since 2012 I have sold water filters at reasonable prices - with great success.
Get started, The full technical setup: 200 USD/EUR ex. VAT. We will create your account in the system. We log in to your web host and make all DNS settings (SPF, DKIM, DMARC) so that your emails don't end up in spam.
Save 600kr ex VAT, if you insert the DNS records, that I send you, yourself
Your account can be dormant (you don't send any emails) and it's free! compare it to the "big boys"