I just bought the deal to have a look into it. And I am very suspicious about a deal that is limited that hard and tries to sell a LTD in conjunction with a 1-year-deal but not lock in the discount. The onliest clear shape of the deal I see is: Lead-Generation for Sendinblue but not giving too much to the buyers. It´s obvious when you see that theire own "Free plan" offers more monthly mails the this Appsumo-Deal. And it´s also obvious that the Deal is not planed as being "usable": The Premium-Plan, that this Deal is connected to, has a minimum of 20k Mails on theire own page. They don´t expect anybody to buy a "Premium-Plan" with less then 20k Mails, but still they offere it here on Appsumo with 5k Mails.

Then there is theire mantra in the comments: "Feel free to look around but I am sure you won't find anything close to this AppSumo offer for any of our competitors.". I don´t have to look far away: I am happy to have Encharge full stacked and so far I don´t see any features on Sendinblue that I am missing on Encharge. And on Encharge I have 25k users and unlimited mails.

But well, they should look closer to theire competitors, it´s not only Encharge but some other systems with overlapping features: Snov.io, InbOx, MailRush, Outplay, there are so many offers, that offer "something like that" and while it´s true that (except of Encharge) none of them does the same as they do, none of them has as small limits as they have. So I really don´t think this deal is one of the better deals, I think it´s one of the worst deals I have seen on Appsumo before. And it follows the Journey of Deals that are not really "usable" with an upsale. This is what I think is happening here: They try to get Leads and hope for upsales.

So why did I buy it anyway? I want to look into it. There might (!) be some smaller things I can use it for. Managing smaller marketing-groups on niesche-products could work for me. I want to play around, get a feeling for it and think about if I find a usefull way to deal with "only 5k mails" or If I am going to refund it.

In fact: The onliest way this deal makes sense to you is if you are far away from 5k mails monthly and you also don´t expect to reach this limit in the next years. If you have a higher sending-volume, of if you expect to reach it, you should look for other solutions, as in that case this is not a "Deal" for you. You would have to upgrade to theire normal pricings or in case of the 1-Year-Deal you would automatically run into theire normal pricing after one year.

But still 3 tacos. Why? Exactly those two elements:

1. If you have a szenario where you stay way under the 5k mails then the deal will work for you.
2. The software is marture and stable

All the best, Julian!