Have The Motley Fools become too pushy?I can’t find the message I came here to respond to, but it seems to me that the Fools have become very aggressive, hardly allowing you to finish one pitch before throwing another at you. With me, it has turned me off of bothering with any of them, especially since I see so many similar pitches, most of which expect you to listen to an hour-long commercial to learn the name of the stock. (I don’t anymore. If I’m interested, I set the alarm clock and come back in an hour) You might say that they have burned-me-out.
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I’ve not once received such pitches despite of subscribing to multiple of their services. I’m also not aware of hour-long commercials having to sit through.
Perhaps turn off marketing emails in the premium section?
Thanks for the tip. I don’t know my way around their site, but I have asked them to do what you have suggested. I hope it helps.
They are quite aggressive in their upselling, am not in a financial savy position yet to afford those high premium services, will settle for Stock Advisor for now. You can turn them off when you go to Help => Account=> Email Settings and you can turn off any notifications you owant
I subscribed to their basic last April. I will not renew, it did not suit me at all. I do think their buy and hold push is valid, but Charley Munger has given that advice for free. He said something along the lines of … it is not in the buying and selling it is in the waiting.
You can contct customer service and ask them to be put up on the no contact list for promo. Yous hould be all set after that.
yes, they are more pushy. i owe a lot to MF, paid the down payment for our 1st house with gains from one of their recommendations, my roth and 401 are set up well based on their recommendations. back in the day rule breakers, rule makers was a totally different way of looking at investing – which at the time was all the warren buffett value stuff and peter lynch blue chip “buy what you use” stuff. they called the internet and 4G revolutions early, plain and simple.
but some of the most recent stuff with AI and 5G is tiring from the marketing side. stock advisor and rule breakers are what? $100 a year. for the 10X, 5G and AI reports its up near $4k. That’s geared towards hedge funds and high net worth individuals, not working stiffs trying to do it themselves. from reading the comments on here its most of the same stocks recommended elsewhere…the #1 stock for marijuana is shopify and other games like that. and yes, they have all these hour long teaser videos that you can’t fast forward and many times dont even end in a stock recommendation, just a discount for the newsletter.
but honestly, i think they are very good at picking stocks. every times they release one of those videos someone on here posts the stocks that are recommended, two of which TTD and NVDA, have had insane results that have helped my retirement outlook. im not sure if I owe more to MF or the posters here.
Well said, MFFan.
But I’ll also add that i had to get rather assertive with the durn fool about “don’t auto-renew me at a higher price without telling me!” Stock Advisor (the only service i had) is now $200. If they had told me right up front that my original $100 was a teaser introductory rate – then i probably wouldn’t be experiencing an unpleasant surprise right now. And they would have had 200 more $!
(I have gotten 87 times more learning from Gumshoe for $329, than i did from Stock Advisor for $100. That’s a pretty good ratio!)
My Bro in law bought me a book introducing me to the Motley Fools way back in the ’90s. It was essentially what today is their commercial. I do not, however, recall having to buy a subscription back then. Both of us started with $5,ooo and followed their recommendations that included Apple, Amazon, and Amgen. I ended up going through a divorce soon after and had to sell and close my brokerage account. It really hadn’t done anything at that point though. My Bother in law went on to make 2.3 million on those original investments. I stumbled back upon TMF five years ago and thought I’d give them a try again and have had great success. I bought quite a few services over the years but kept track of the auto-renewals and canceled before they renewed. I have built out a kickass portfolio that has made my money back on the services many times over. I now have SA and RB. Obviously, I am a member here and also subscribe to Jeff Brown. Between all of the subscriptions, I get the best ideas, especially when a stock shows up on all three of the services. I call those stocks the best of the best…AND for $500 I’ll be happy to share those stocks with you today!.LOL ..Kidding naturally. But, Motley Fool is legit for the buy and holders. PS, I don’t think anyone hawks more than Jeff Brown and his associates, AKA Teeka.