Review by Chris O, February 21, 2009

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I live in Perth (Western Australia) and enjoy reading this publication. Some of the pics have been OK. Others have been total and utter disasters!! Like for example a SCREAMING BUY recommendation when McArthur Coal slipped down to around 17.00. Having been previously around 20.00, one got sucked in and bought some more. What are they now? Well you may ask - around 2.50. Ouch. If there is an upside it can only be that I don’t own all that many. But still, the pain - we hates it.
I’ve made some profits from some of the stuff, but not too much because of course the main pitch when I first subscribed to this service and subsequently committed to some bought positions was when all stuff encased in wonderful Aussie dirt was booming and beloved by our Asian neighbours. Especially of course the ones from China.
But that’s all changed - pro-tem (she says still being a believer)and one was determined from the outset to stay strong, put the nerves of steel to good use and hang in for the long term. The latter of course has turned out to be the ‘operative word’ de jour. In the local lingo (couldn’t work out how to spell vernacu….something without stopping to look it up, may I just say “Bugger”!
Will I be renewing my subs? - I’d rather keep donating to the Gumshoe cause. Thanks for a wonderful service.
And besides, I made a promise to myself to unclutter, including my inbox which is bombarded daily with ‘free’ rantings which are now all starting to sound so same-ish and frankly a waste of time.
Many months ago I read where a great Gumshoe subscriber who goes by the monikker of ‘Spreadtrader’ counselled me and others to do the learning and go it alone without all these newsletters. Never was a wiser bit of advice given.
I have learned the hard way that my investments in learning to trade on my own steam have performed poorly because I got sucked into the Newsletter rubbish. It takes up space and delivers not too much of value. Now I am going back to where I started with all this - onto the learning curve.

Review by Maria K, February 24, 2009

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Performance of Picks/Advice	Not Rated
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(”Vernacular” - for the previous reviewer). Gumshoe still rates top stars …
Customer service for D&D is alright, however I find the information provided is often after the event, that the “pics” are obvious if one has been doing the research. I rarely receive the D&D emails on time, if at all….containing current password to enter D&D online site. So have found it to be an overall frustrating experience being from Sydney and having subscribed to OS publications which if nothing more reliable. Agree with the previous reviewer that the greatest insights, the best pics are those chosen as a result of one’s own research. My email inbox is so cluttered with “newsletters” that I have some insight into the way these tips, thanks to Gumshoe, manipulate the market to varying degrees - one can track the “spikes” in a stock coinciding with the hyped up marketing provided by one newsletter or another…..Eg LNG is a stock I have been tracking for a little while, then Gumshoe reviewed it recently, I think the company looks like it may hold promise, it financials:
Balance Sheet
CAPITAL STRUCTURE ($ 000s) . go top
Total Debt 31
Long Term Debt 24
Preferred Stock
Shareholders equity

CURRENT POSITION ($ 000s) go top
2006 2007 2008
Cash Assets 12,927 6,270 8,545
Receivables 57 494 590
Inventory – – –
Others 35 30 15,759
TOTAL CURRENT ASSETS 13,019 6,793 24,894

Accounts Payable 468 367 780
Debt Due 14 9 7
Others 101 143 799
CURRENT LIABILITIES 584 519 1,586

since the recent publicity in D&D it has, of course gone up a little…(the best thing about the stock may be it’s code)although it’s current assets look healthy enough. (I don’t own this stock but was happy to see it reviewed in Gumshoe) thanks again for exposing the truth behind the hype.

Review by Annoyed, February 13, 2010

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I used to subscribe to Diggers and Drillers and it was one of the worst things I ever did. Apart from recommendations such as Windimurra Vanadium which completely collapsed I naively followed their gold picks.
Back around December 2008 I was looking to buy gold miners and thought I was being smart by following the advice of someone who supposedly had pored through the accounts, visited the mines, spoken to the management.
The recommendations they gave were AXM, SBM, and CTO.
In fact they claimed AXM was surrounded by a moat of cash.
Just have a look at the performance of those 3 lemons compared to say, AND, TRY, OGC, KCN or just about any other gold miner. The editor is either an idiot or a crook but either way ignore his recommendations.

Review by Jasper, February 23, 2010

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I have only recently subscribed and have been sifting through all the information they have sent me electronically. What I would like to say is that I am a little be-mused that the majority of the emails I have received are to subscribe to further subscriptions e.g. Australian Small Cap Investigator and another strange one called ‘Swarm’ that they were peddling for $1500- with only 188 seats available!?! Has anyone heard anything about Swarm? Anyway, still doing alot of reading from the D&D Subscription and don’t really appreciate being bombarded with all the other ones……..

Review by Gail, March 2, 2010

I signed for the 30 day free trial and am now wishing to cancel and receive a refund however I cannot find how to do this as there are no contact numbers - does anybody know how to contact Diggers & Drillers for their money back no questions asked guarantee?