Comments on: Eco-Friendly eCommerce Companies Coming out Strong! http://www.revenews.com/online-marketing/eco-friendly-ecommerce-companies-coming-out-strong/ Discussion of Online Marketing, SEM, Social Media, Mobile and Video, Micro-Content, and Affiliate Marketing Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:59:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Alan Friedrichsen http://www.revenews.com/online-marketing/eco-friendly-ecommerce-companies-coming-out-strong/#comment-17845 Alan Friedrichsen Thu, 07 Aug 2008 01:09:35 +0000 http://revenews.contentrobot.com/?p=2707#comment-17845 The concept of ECM is great, but the reality is somewhat lacking. For starters, one thing they don’t tell you up front is that it costs at least $10 per shipment to have a piece of your mail physically delivered to you, even if it’s a single envelope! They refuse to use the USPS to forward mail, insisting on using only couriers that provide item tracking. Thus, their cheapest shipping option, even for a single envelope, works out to about $10 when you include taxes, etc. It’s probably more expensive on the East Coast or the farther you get from ECM’s Oregon sorting facility (I live in a major city in the Central U.S.) ECM is clearly targeting customers who receive lots of mail per week and can take advantage of bulk shipments or customers who can get away with reading their mail online and never need to physically receive it. In my case, I need to physically receive a handful of letters per month (legal documents, for instance), so unless I’m willing to wait until the end of the month to get these (which is difficult, since some of them are timely), I have to pay as much as $50/month extra to physically receive my critical mail. Other services forward through USPS for as little as $2-3/item. ECM needs to do likewise. I didn’t find out about this limitation until I received my first critical piece of mail. I was forced to pay $10 to ship that piece of mail, but thereafter, I immediately asked ECM to cancel my account ... which they promptly did, but they neglected to tell me until the account was actually canceled that they would not be refunding any of the months I had already paid in advance! Buyer beware. The concept of ECM is great, but the reality is somewhat lacking. For starters, one thing they don’t tell you up front is that it costs at least $10 per shipment to have a piece of your mail physically delivered to you, even if it’s a single envelope! They refuse to use the USPS to forward mail, insisting on using only couriers that provide item tracking. Thus, their cheapest shipping option, even for a single envelope, works out to about $10 when you include taxes, etc. It’s probably more expensive on the East Coast or the farther you get from ECM’s Oregon sorting facility (I live in a major city in the Central U.S.)

ECM is clearly targeting customers who receive lots of mail per week and can take advantage of bulk shipments or customers who can get away with reading their mail online and never need to physically receive it. In my case, I need to physically receive a handful of letters per month (legal documents, for instance), so unless I’m willing to wait until the end of the month to get these (which is difficult, since some of them are timely), I have to pay as much as $50/month extra to physically receive my critical mail. Other services forward through USPS for as little as $2-3/item. ECM needs to do likewise.

I didn’t find out about this limitation until I received my first critical piece of mail. I was forced to pay $10 to ship that piece of mail, but thereafter, I immediately asked ECM to cancel my account … which they promptly did, but they neglected to tell me until the account was actually canceled that they would not be refunding any of the months I had already paid in advance!

Buyer beware.

]]> By: Lori http://www.revenews.com/online-marketing/eco-friendly-ecommerce-companies-coming-out-strong/#comment-10374 Lori Tue, 12 Feb 2008 09:42:26 +0000 http://revenews.contentrobot.com/?p=2707#comment-10374 Love this article and wish you had more here like it. It's my hope that this profoundly helpful website will start to focus more attention on the <a href="http://www.squidoo.com/georgewashingtonforpresident" rel="nofollow">conscious consumer</a> market. It sure would be helpful to both affiliates and the planet. Thank you, Lori EvoSolutions <a href="www.aboutenlightenment.com" rel="nofollow"> <a href="http://www.aboutenlightenment.com</a>" target="_blank">www.aboutenlightenment.com</a></a> Love this article and wish you had more here like it. It's my hope that this profoundly helpful website will start to focus more attention on the conscious consumer market. It sure would be helpful to both affiliates and the planet.

Thank you,
Lori
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]]> By: christina http://www.revenews.com/online-marketing/eco-friendly-ecommerce-companies-coming-out-strong/#comment-10373 christina Wed, 07 Nov 2007 02:27:50 +0000 http://revenews.contentrobot.com/?p=2707#comment-10373 I saw a feature on julib.com(LA edition) about a new eco-friendly baby store called The Little Seed, partially owned by Soleil Moon Frye (Punky Brewster!). Worth a look for Green baby gifts... I saw a feature on julib.com(LA edition) about a new eco-friendly baby store called The Little Seed, partially owned by Soleil Moon Frye (Punky Brewster!). Worth a look for Green baby gifts…

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