“Better Than Buffett: The Blue Chip Trading at Blue Light Prices” Philip Durell

“Bite the bullet now and buy this 100-year-old company cheap if you can” … that’s how Philip Durell introduces us to a favorite investment that’s owned by Warren Buffett and has been clobbered this year (for good reason, some would argue).
This is in an ad for his Inside Value newsletter at the Motley [...]

“Billion Dollar China SSE to Own RIGHT NOW” Bill Mann

This is part of an ad that we’ve looked at before in slightly different form — the other “Billion Dollar SSE” we looked at was General Steel Holdings back in July.

What the folks at the Motley Fool’s Global Gains newsletter mean when they call something a “SSE” is a “state sponsored entrepreneur” or [...]

“3 Kings of Cloud Computing” Motley Fool

This one has drummed up a fair amount of interest from the mighty horde of Gumshoe readers, I’ve been seeing it for a couple weeks now and it appears to still be actively pushed as I type.
So … you might like to know the names of these three cloud computing giants, no? [...]

“Billion Dollar SSE: Locking Down China’s Steel Industry”

This one comes in from Bill Mann at the Motley Fool’s Global Gains service, which I’ve looked at several times before — and I’ve also liked a lot of their picks and have invested in a few of the same companies personally, so I usually pay extra attention to their ads.
Which doesn’t make them any [...]

Inside Value: “Warren Buffet and the Subprime Slime”

This ad came in from Philip Durell’s Inside Value newsletter from the Motley Fool, which they’re currently offering for $149. This is the “deep value” newsletter from the Fool, so it probably shouldn’t be any surprise that it’s one of the worst Fool performers recently — it’s beating the S&P by just a point [...]

Hidden Gems: “Hidden Oil Millionaires and $5 Gas”

I know it seems like I’ve been writing primarily about the Motley Fool over the past week or so, but I am but a simple servant to my masters: the wide-ranging, unusually intelligent, and good lookin’ Gumshoe readership. And a large number of you, I’m guessing something on the order of a zillion, have [...]

Still Super? Fool’s “American Super Brand” Endures

Newsletters are notorious for re-using the same ad copy for years and years and years, and the Motley Fool is no different — when they get a marketing pitch that really works, they keep trotting it out again, and again, and again. I’ve mentioned this before, particularly with their “Next Berkshire Hathaway” pick that [...]

Bill Mann “Great Argentine Land Grab”

This is another teaser-within-a-teaser, part of a loooong advertising email from the Motley Fool’s Global Gains newsletter. This is a relatively new service (last couple years) that’s trying to capitalize on Americans’ obsession with overseas investments, they focus on companies that are easily tradeable in the U.S., either as listed ADRs or with heavy [...]

Motley Fool’s “The Best Stock Idea I’ve Ever Seen”

OK, so this one is quick and dirty. No, not that kind of dirty! Get your mind out of the gutter, it’s not even Noon yet.
It’s not from an email ad, but from something else — I have recently noticed that the folks who write the free

Motley Fool’s “Best Stock of 2008″

Ah, I’m back on the horse now after so many days of struggling with boring computer code … and now the Thinkolator can really get a warmup, because we have before us yet another epic tome of teaserdom in the form of a Motley Fool email.
This one’s trying to sell us “the unstoppable ‘multimedia powerhouse’ [...]