Was just burned by this too in testing an integration. If it has been deleted it should act deleted -- even if it was a soft delete under the hood. Is there any way to truly delete the contact at an API level? If not then this isn't a UI vs API thing, it's an inconsistent data thing. ... View more

For this use-case why can't Constant Contact develop a flow in the developer portal that does the OAuth flow for us and presents us with an access token and long-lived refresh token so we can use it in our app? That would solve the problem for all of us.   We really shouldn't have to hand-roll an entire oauth flow just so that we can get the one refresh and access token that we will be needing for our automation. ... View more