Mobile Email for Samsung Gusto 2

[rwoody81]

I recently purchased the Samsung Gusto 2 with a $50/month prepaid unlimited plan. I was unsure about the cost of mobile email so I brought the question to a Verizon salesperson here on the website. They informed me that the cost of mobile email is included in the "unlimited mobile web" of my unlimited plan. My phone is now telling me that the mobile email app has expired, and I need to pay $6.99 to use it again for only one month. Am I really going to be charged seven bucks a month (on top of my unlimited plan) for an email app on my phone? If so, that's just a ridiculous amount of money to pay (per month) for a pretty basic feature of phones today.