“A young company, along with one of the world’s largest universities, has created a successful, non-invasive system for the treatment of nature’s deadliest disease.” That’s how Mark Skousen opens his ad for his newsletter, Forecasts and Strategies. If you wan to see what the company is, you’ll have to sign up for a subscription … […]
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“Oracle of Oil and Motley Fool’s #1 Value Stock”
I’m a little surprised that of all the email lists I’m on I didn’t get this email … thankfully, a reader did and sent it in for me to review. This is an ad for Philip Durell’s Inside Value newsletter over at the Motley Fool, and the big tease is that you can subscribe to […]
6 Comments Read More“The 1,000% Report: Better Pipeline than Hewlett Packard”
This teaser comes to us from Andrew Gordon of Investor’s Daily Edge and The Wealth Advantage, which says it “reveals undervalued opportunities for large gains in very safe investments.” The service looks pretty good in the ad, as they all do — Andrew says he looks for good management (especially new management brought in to […]
6 Comments Read More“Buffett’s Secret Loser”
This one is actually a teaser for a free service — but the Gumshoe doesn’t discriminate. It’s from Investment U, and it’s teasing us with the name of Warren Buffett’s secret portfolio holding, the one that he bought low and averaged up over the years, and recently piled on more shares of after the shares […]
2 Comments Read More“America’s Oil Pension: Government A.O.P. Retirement Plan”
This piece deciphered the original “A.O.P.” teaser form 2007, the ad was revised and is now running again in 2012, we looked at the new version here. This one on the so-called American Oil Pension (A.O.P) has been making the rounds quite a bit lately, with lots of different variations over the past couple weeks […]
31 Comments Read More“Katie Couric Does the Unthinkable”
OK, so this one is cheating a little bit — I’ve already sleuthed out this recommendation, but this is a new way of selling it that I love. You see, they’re now teasing this company with Katie Couric’s story — not about how she became such a prominent newswoman, or America’s morning sweetheart, or any […]
6 Comments Read MoreSpecial Situations — Fat Pitch Tender Offers
This is an interesting one because it was submitted by the person doing the “teasing” — George over at Fat Pitch Financials, which is a great value investing blog, runs something he calls a “Special Situations Real Money Portfolio” in which he seeks out things like buyouts, tender offers, going private transactions, and the like, […]
7 Comments Read MoreStock Gumshoe — Monthly Review
Well, I’ve now been sleuthing out these companies publicly, and tracking the performance of these advertising emails, for long enough to take a little look back and see if anything interesting has happened to these firms. The most widely hyped pick of the last week, for Porter Stansberry’s London natural resources bank, is probably too […]
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