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Alan Gula
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Stansberry Research
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Monthly newsletter recommends undervalued, “blue chip” and “next boom” stocks. Portfolio holds about 20-30 positions and is billed as conservative. Formerly edited by Porter Stansberry.
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Take advantage of the fear Mr. Stansberry.
Theres a special place for people like you in hell.
The most recent comments are clearly politically motivated answer to Porter’s video. They of course cannot argue with the facts in this presentation thus prefer to attack the messenger’s business. I’m subscriber since last year and tried a few of his subscriptions, stay with what suits me best, and very happy with my choices. Porter let you try for 90 days any subscription and refund promptly 90% of the cost. All previous publications from any subscription are organized and readily available so you may track their record. Back in January in his S&A Digest Porter published the summary of the results and ranking for each subscription. How many investment advisers will display exact account of their performance record and openly criticize the under-performers? Once you pay the basic subscription at discount for $50, most other subscriptions also may be offered with a 40-50% discount at some time if you wait. So you have the chance to try for a few percent of the list price most of the subscriptions for 90 days, see their records, participate at your choice, and then decide. This is not a day-trading school, this is investment advisory with excellent record. Porter is a brave political dissident just like Havel and Solzhenitsyn were before the fall of the evil Soviet Empire. No wonder that for his very public opposition he is under attack for many years, most prominent case based on false allegations by SEC. So don’t pay attention to the most recent comments. They are not about the advisory they are about his political views. Just another attempt to sabotage Porter because of his opposition to the current political powers.
No, my comments are not political! There is nothing in those comments that would lead any normal person to conclude that they are political and the reveiwer seems offended and personally attacked so I have to assume that “sevens” is actually Porter and you are annoyed that people don’t like the bullcrap you are selling.
I will say it again, I am looking for investment advice (“not day trading school”) and definately not the constant nonsense and sales pitches for additional newsletters. And not crazy crap like “secret messiah” “32% Clause” “grail”, that makes PSIA sound like a scam.
I watched the whole video. During the video I found myself very annoyed at his promises “to reveal important information” in the coming seconds only to be given the same dooms day scenario regarding the U.S. economy (which i actually agree with).
For someone who supposedly “cares” so much about saving as many people as he can from impending disaster, he sure makes himself seem like a douchebag when, after spending an hour hyping how dire our circumstances are wants to profit to the tune of 50$ just for telling people they should buy farmland and bet against the stock market dropping more after it collapses.
This has all the markings of a classic eBook or newsletter scam and should be avoided, if one is really interested in actual investment advice.
I don’t think here the idea is to argue with each other or to defend our opinions or rating. But your response warrants a reply because of three points. All your acquisitions against Porter are focused on the advertisement material that allows to keep low subscriptions fees, not on the real investment advisories. Hint, comment on the Annual Report Cards I and II published in the S&A Digest January 14 and 21 if you are indeed a paid subscriber. Second, as a true liberal you are too much interested in the identity of the messenger, not in the message. No, I’m not Porter and every average student in linguistics would easily differentiate my writing style as far from Porter’s. Admittedly, English is my second language so maybe now you’ll attack my English and my writing style unable to prove with facts your opinion and ratings on the services in question.
Third and most important, how can you explain the simple fact that so many comments above and all negative were posted after December 2010 when Porter started the distribution of his “controversial” video? Normally a business matures, gets better with the time and grows, not worse. That third point alone proves my initial judgment and your response is no more than a futile cover-up effort in the mind of every unbiased and critically thinking reader.
Thanks for your reply, Porter, I mean sevens. Firstly I am a conservative, not a liberal. Secondly, you know too much about the inner workings of PSIA to be anyone other then an employee or Porter himself. How would you know that all those crazy ads where to keep down subcription costs? Plus all you get is crazy ads not real investment advice as was advertised so what costs are you keeping down, exactly. For “real” investment advise you have to buy one of the many other newsletters that go for several thousands of dollars, but I don’t have to tell you Porter, it is your scam. Finally, you are the attacker, I was commenting on the endless barage of crap I have been sent since signing up for PSIA and you got personal. Why did you get personal? It seems to me that you have something personal invested in this, namely, you are Porter.
Finally, all the negitive reviews were not after 12/10/10 many were before and I am sure the many of the positve reviews were by you, Porter. Also you got so many bad reviews after 12/10 because you called attention to yourself and your scam with that video, not becasue it was controversial but everyone began to realize what a scam artist you are.
You Chris are deeply wrong and your error can rival only your big self-confidence in your conviction displayed above. I’m a regular subscriber since end of December 2010 and there is nothing in my response that is not available to any regular subscriber just of the basic S&A subscription. For under $60 besides the daily Digest Porter publishes once a month his investment advisory that should be the subject of the reviews and that you still refuse to comment perhaps because you never really have seen it. I guess you never subscribed, otherwise you would know also what I’m talking about. This year I also got Penny Stock Letter ans S&A Resource Report on sale one for $39 other for same or $59 (I don’t recall). All subscriptions have 90-day trial period after which you may cancel and get 90% of the fees back. The advertisements simply add to this company bottom line so they may keep some subscriptions really cheap. This is what Porter said many times in his comments in the Digest, no secrets here. And while it is true that there were some negative comments prior to his “video”, it is sufficient to read them to discover the political motivation behind. I’m not attacking anyone, simply exposing your flagrant subjectivity that you once again underlined by refusing to comment the actual investment advisory and the yearly account with grading for all subscriptions in the Digest editions I have mentioned before. Why you cannot accept the simple fact that some subscribers can be really happy with the services? Again, if you were a real subscriber you would know from the published feedback that htere are many like me. People vote not on a free web site, they vote with their money and the membership grows. This is my guess of course, but it is based on monitoring the stock price change after it was recommended by Porter or his associate. This is the best evidence that S&A subscriptions are worthy more than any of negative reviews suggest. Your political affiliations are immaterial if you are reviewing the investment advisory which you never really did but may explain your unfounded negativity.
Today a suggestion in Daily Wealth, a Stanberry and Assoc. publication that you get for “free” tells you to put all your money into one investment from some “Guru” in florida who only invests in gold stocks apparently. Who in their right mind is investing all their money in one thing. Investing 101 is to diversify! $495 a year to tell me which gold stocks to put “all of my money” into. That is really bad advise. Even if the stocks where good picks. Don’t you think Sevens?
PS only a couple old reviews sound political not all bad reviews.
PSS I don’t trust PSIA to tell me how good their picks are when they send me bad advise like the above speaks of.
So you confirm that you only follow whatever is completely free, right? Didn’t like to try the basic PSIA subscription 90 days for just $6 (after refund of 90%), not $495 and learn what about is this service before rating it? Regarding the above “bad” advise I actually did it with a single stock trading back in April 2009 for less than 15% of today’s depressed price. I just knew that this company would survive and stock would recover because they still had a major portion of the world market in their growing sector. Since then I have made over 400% gains that completely restored and added significant values to my IRA and brokerage accounts. Had I known from Porter a better exit strategy I could have sold later and could make double that profit. I’m certain that there are many cases like mine and holding a single stock might be risky only if you gamble with some OTC or PK stocks but not so much if for example this stock is a world dominator like INTC, CAT, GE, you name it. You only need the right time to put everything is such stock and thrive when it rebounds. Then you may switch to more diversification (as I did) or switch to cash and patiently wait for another chance. Or if you prefer steady income, just buy and hold one of Porter’s recommendation, they pay %15 dividend ( growing on top of that) and the stock price didn’t inch with the recent market moves. Just this recommendation is worth far more than $6. Thanks to the reckless monetary policy of this country since Reagan long term gold and silver are also great values to hold and I see no wrong to place all your IRA in gold.
The bottom line is that you rush and jump on conclusions before actually knowing what are you talking about – be it PSIA subscription, any particular advise from Porter or his associates, or even mine comments. You seem young and enthusiastic but with very limited experience while bringing here your Facebook habits. Insisting to have the last word and add one more negative review when in reality you don’t have anything of value to say.
I have a subscription which I paid $49.50 and with it came free “newsletters” which are full of crazy crap. I read them all for my enjoyment at the nonsense.
Like the one on May 10th where Sean Goldsmith of S&A says “we resently sent an ex-CIA officer to investigate a 29 floor structure in canada…” But it gets better, you click on the link for more information and they offer you a newsletter for $3,000 which will tell you what to invest in based on the CIA agents findings. WTF? Do people really believe that crap?
Back to the previous post, suggesting to anyone to put 100% of your retirement assets in one stock is horrible. No one should ever do that, no matter what you claim you did and how much you claim you profited, it is insane to put all your money in one stock or one anything, diversify baby, that is the way to invest.
Review by sevens, April 29, 2011 > English is my second language..
I am impressed. You do very well.
If you Chris are truly a member prove that by rating the Annual Report Cards I and II as suggested earlier and if you prefer focus to only the PSIA subscription advisories and performance, not the advertisements. Otherwise you sound as rating a TV show by referring to only the commercials. Say, as talking only about that green GEICO lizard in attempt to rate Dancing with the Stars. I’m sure Porter who certainly has no clue about this web site and frankly, wouldn’t care even if he did, wouldn’t mind if you quote which subscription what percentage made and what rating got. Of course feel free to rename or simply number them as you wish.
Regarding that idea to put all your retirement savings in gold, it is true that if I was able to put all my 401K savings in gold I wouldn’t need to take certain risk with a potential World Dominator back in April 2009 to repair what was previously done do a number of mutual fund managers. Lucky that I could roll over that 401K to IRA. Diversification wouldn’t help you much in the 2008-2009 crash, period.
Firstly, the newsletters in question are not advertisements as Sevens keeps referring to. Yes there are advertisements and they are clearly marked “Advertisement”. I am speaking of additional offers from S&A staff, like this one from a few days ago…
Brian Hunt, editor and Chief at S&A investment research in his Growth Stock Wire, which is one of the free newsletters you get with the $49.50 subscription, says “We spent $500,000 to spy on the Market”. You did, really?
He goes on to say that 15 Russian computer programers wrote a spyware, which they are using to make stock picks with 100+% returns. WOW! If you click you find out that for $1,500 (discounted from the regular fee of $3,500) you get a newsletter that tells you what stocks to pick based on the new spy program. Of course if it is new how do they say it will result in such large gains, but anyway, what a bunch of crap.
And this is not an Advertisement, it is a newsletter from S&A.
As for the crash of 2008, if you diversified and didn’t panic and kept buying you would have also made a killing on new purchases and recouped the losses from the crash.
Or put every penny in one investment and risk losing it all.
I gave 5 stars for Consistency because it is consistently a scam. Save your money, it is a rip off. All you get is 5 worthless “special reports” and endless emails for offers of other more expensive newsletters.
Chris is determined to avoid the main subject here – PSIA or Porter Stansberry Investment Advisory that is published once monthly without any advertisements included inside. He refuses to comment as suggested on the investment advisory itself or on the Annual Report Cards I and II published in the S&A Digest January 14 and 21 that review and grade the performance of the various subscription advisories. The funny and sometimes over the top advertisements as the one quoted by Chris are extra promotions, just like any commercial in you basic TV cable. Why Chris is so much obsessed with the commercials remains unknown. The motivation could be political or Chris might be affiliated with a competitor. But the subjectivity and bias and more than obvious. Now he’s “joined” by someone calling himself “Scam Dar” with basically the same complain, who conveniently also avoids what should be the main subject of this review – the monthly PSIA letter, and gives the same rating as this Chris who “surprisingly” forgets to reaffirm his poor ratings which by itself is very inconsistent with his/her previous behavior. So it’s safe to consider this “Scam Dar” is none but Chris’ online alias. I see no need to pretend I’m someone else by creating another online ID to defend sevens, I don’t need such poor mimicry simply because the truth is on my side.
Dare to answer the main question Chris a.k.a Scam Dar, comment the PSIA content and performance of Porter’s recommendations not the commercials.
There are lots of negitive reviews that agree with me.
One further comment. The “funny” advertisements are not all advertisements. The one I referred to came from an editor of S&A as an additional offer, not an advertisement. The advertisements in S&A are clearly marked and should be avoided by anyone who wants to keep their hard earned money.
Brian Hunt, who is editor and Chief at Stansberry & Associates investment research in his Growth Stock Wire, which is part of the Porter Stansberry family of newsletters was recommending an additional newsletter to buy, this is far different then an advertisement.
The same offer of a newsletter based on Russian Spyware was also offered in an advertisements later in the week last week and this week, clearly marked, “Advertisement”.
I was commenting on Brian Hunt’s recommendation of the Newsletter based on the Russian Spyware.
They should not be recommending such crazy nonsense in there newsletters. Plus it is clearly say “We” when referring to the Russian spyware and this we was the staff of Stansberry, so even when shown as an “advertisement” they are still selling an additional Stansberry publication, based on crap.
You can’t just say it is an “advertisment” and wash your hands of it. It is still one of your publications recommented by you and your editorial staff and quite frankly, you did not pay $500,000 for Russian compter geeks to write a spyware to spy on the marked, that is a lie, by anyone at Stansberry and Associates to says it and several have.
Just so I make this perfectly clear. First I am not Scam Dar. Second I am not getrichordietrying, Third, I am not Mike Adams, ect, ect, ect. These are just people who don’t like Stansberry’s tactics.
Today, I got an email which starts “Dear S&A Digest Reader” and goes on to say “Our business resently spent hundreds of thousands of dollars” and it is signed George Rayburn, Publisher, S&A Investment Research.
Of course you click on the link and you get the story about the 15 Russian Computer Geeks who wrote spyware to spy on the stock market. Basically it is a letter from Dr. Steve Sjuggerund, a member of the Stansberry and Associates family, where he explains the 100% gains he got from this Russian Spyware. This is not an advertisement or a funny commercial like you might see on TV. It is a S&A publication that they are pushing based on lies to get you to give them more money. Stay away, far, far, away from anything they try to sell you!
As a broken record you keep repeating the same and “conveniently” ignore my challenge to comment any of Porter’s subscription INVESTMENT recommendations or the Annual report cards I and II as I have suggested. Let alone timing, I have suggested three logical reasons why most likely Dar Scam is your online alias, didn’t say anything about others. Yes, you may share with many other reviewers elements of their biased opinions and avoidance of reviewing the actual investment advisory. Needless to speculate on yours or anyone’s motivation. For $5 which is the cost after 90% refund at the end of the 90 day trial period anyone can check what it’s all about. So it’s logical to wonder if you dislike this subscription so much why you just don’t cancel? After you unsubscribe and ask them to be removed from their mailing lists there will be no more advertisements. Unless you dare to comment the actual investment advisory or the report cards as suggested spare your speculations to answer, you are exposed enough.
Porter Stansberry’s PSIA publication is one that investors should avoid. He’s very quick to take praise where he is spot-on but often actually flip-flops his views to suit what other commentators are saying.
For example, he reccomended buying home builders back in 2008 – right before massive losses loomed, yet months later changed his view and then had the arrogance to boast about how everything was playing out to his plan! I dislike how each publication aggressively pushes to ‘buy’ something when sometimes the best course of action is simply to stay in cash.
Interestingly, the guy boasts of wealth but the vast majority (I would wager almost all of it) has come from selling newsletters, not actually being a successful investor.
I would have said people should take out a subscription just to see what it’s like within the cancellation policy,…that was until Porter applied a 10% cancelleation fee. Speaks volumes really.
I’ve been a happy Stansberry subscriber for six years. He has collected a group of very intelligent writers who have 1) made me money, and 2) made me think. Many folks get his annoying marketing tactics confused with his excellent newsletters. If you can look past the marketing, there are a lot of good ideas coming out of S&A. I particularly like Sjuggerud, who is very calm and educated. His Seabridge Gold call is helping to send my daughter to college.
I know a lot of people hate him, but tough – the guy has great ideas. Folks who don’t pay attention to his picks because they don’t agree with his politics, or don’t like his over-the-top marketing, are idiotic. Even Porter says the marketing is annoying but that’s how you sell subscriptions. I’d rather put up with that than have my subscription price double or, even worse, have them go out of business.
Finally, the Russian Computer Geek advertisement is just that, an ad. It is NOT a newsletter. Too bad some people can’t tell the difference. I guess those are the folks whose money I take in the markets day after day.