Anybody bought email lists from fiverr?

Please, please, please... DO NOT BUY email lists.
This seems to be a grey area in the different email marketing laws around the world (GDPR etc), but broken down to the basics, you're effectively breaking the law.

1. You're purchasing a person's personal details, without their knowledge or consent. On the other end of that, the person selling is also selling a person's details without the persons consent. This is not legal.

2. Once you have possession and import into your ESP and send your first cold email, you're then breaking the law again by emailing people who haven't given consent for you to market to them.

3. Your IP address and from address will take a huge hit in reputation and be severely punished by 'cold emailing' people who will effectively file or mark your email as spam. Eventually you'll be blacklisted by email clients and you'll hit the spam/junk folder automatically.

This whole cold emailing fad in startup world is ridiculous, in my opinion. It shouldn't be bandied about as a winning solution to poor marketing and sales strategy.
Maybe social media or general online advertising isn't the way to go for you, but there are plenty of other ways to get your name out there, rather than cheating the system and buying scraped details and then 'innocently' contacting these people.
It's the same as telemarketers taking emails from phone books cold calling (and potentially scamming) and EVERYONE hates telemarketing.

Here is a good test to know if you're crossing a line...
What would your answer be if a person received your email (or call), responded asking where you got their details.
Would you be upfront and tell them you bought them?

Just.DONT.Do.It.

Rant over.
Sorry, if this seems targeted toward you, it isn't.
I just get fired up about crappy email and general marketing laziness in the startup world, pushed by the big successful names.

Don't do it.

• It's against the law
• It's spam
• It will kill your deliverability

I would recommend avoiding it. It destroys your brand.

Honesty, I wouldn’t recommend buying email list from Fiverr. The reason being you don’t know what your getting.

You don’t know the quality and what steps were taken to ensure the emails are up to date.

It’s better to spend a couple more dollars and purchase an email list from an established company!

Hi, I think buying bulk email lists is just a waste of time and money, data is usually old, not validated and sometimes from random people you don't know who they are in detail.

Check salesql.com, a lot of people from fiverr who work as lead gen agencies use it for generating the data, but you can do it by yourself.

The group responses in here are great. I'm glad there wasn't an insult thrown at the question. Great advice everyone. I was curious about the email listing but now a days it's just a guaranteed way to become spam.

Not buying a list but using upwork to generate a prospects list of local businesses. Against the law in EU, but no regulations elsewhere, so stay clear of EU. Dont buy the list, those people have been spammedto death. Once your prospect list os created use neverbounce to cleanup list. Then use mailshake or something similar (not mailchimp, sendgrid etc, those are for opt in lists only. I am trying this for my SaaS will let you know the results. Most people here are telling you not to do it because most are not in sales. As a sales person cold outreach is my bread and butter. Again, never tried what i outlined, but working on it now.

Interested in this as well...