More crappy emails: RealEstateProNews.com Advocates Firing Webmasters

From the world of crappy email, rises a new contender:  RealEstateProNews.com who in this crappy email suggests you "fire your webmasters".  Whoever sent this email for them should be fired:

Why you ask?

• They start with an accusational headline, but cant pay it off
• Images wont render in Outlook 2003 or 2007 (used by ohhh, most business users)
• No way to view online
• No text equivalent of the offer or the company - who knows who its from
• Even the dead images ARENT CLICKABLE

I assume this message is for a seminar of sorts where they are going to spew genius of template based web products and their "email systems" but who knows.  Now, RealEstateProNews, aka MortgageTrends, aka Verticalemail, aka who knows what else, is a typical ambiguous shell company that sells "services" to [unsuspecting] real estate agents. As an email provider, verticalemail.com (a namesake rip rip off of VerticalResponse) has shown that they aint got it together so, shame on them. Here is how they send such dynamic/compelling emails:

"This is accomplished utilizing our Patent-Pending    Database-Controlled Broadcast Email System developed specifically for    the commercial real estate industry" - taken from their website

Make any sense? No. I am not saying this company is unethical, or illegitimate, I am simply commenting on this email that I took some offense to.  The links to their websites should be a fair trade for this critique from an opted-in subscriber. Till RealEstateProNews/Verticalemail gets their shyte together, may want to think about firing them.

Enjoy.

BL