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Gangsters
Motley Fool only pretends to be an investment advice company. They are a bunch of wannabes, and their website is just a scam. They recommend so many stocks, they can always look back and say "we recommended this stock when it was just ..." but they never look back at all of the losers they recommend. The end result is they can give you a presentation that looks impressive, but in real life, real time, they are worthless. Better to just throw darts at a board, and far, far better to just invest in index funds.
Verified
Title: Paid $13,000 for a Service That Delivered Nothing – Avoid Motley Fool!
I paid $13,000 USD for Motley Fool's premium "One" service, lured in by aggressive marketing emails promising elite investment recommendations and millionaire-level returns. I followed their advice closely and ended up losing over $100,000. Worse, when I contacted them to request a refund, they ignored all my messages. I filed a report with the FTC (Case #*******) and plan to escalate further through the Better Business Bureau and other legal routes. The service was misleading, underdelivered, and completely lacking in support or accountability. Stay away — especially if you're an international customer. They promise the world, take your money, and disappear.
Verified
Deceptive and Fraudulent
I tried a one year subscription for ~$150 and found their research to be average at best, so i stopped wasting time with them. Unfortunately, they auto-renewed my subscription at ~$210 despite the fact that their is no way for me to turn off the auto renew option on their portal (neither the 'Account' or 'Manage Membership' pages have any option to turn of auto renew). Spare yourself the time and headache of this mediocre service.
As a small time investor most of the stocks were out of my range. I had hoped to build up my account through various smart and strategic trades. I was looking to be a stock trader as opposed to buy and hold.
Verified
I received my funding back to me
Parfois, je me suis demandé ce qui se passait, j'ai déposé de l'argent pour cet investissement tout d'un coup, l'argent a disparu, j'ai contacté le service clientèle, ils ont été si impolis jusqu'à ce qu'une entreprise de recouvrement puisse m'aider récemment et récupérer mes fonds en quelques jours grâce à L'agent dont les coordonnées sont
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Beyond awful. I subscribed to their service around three years ago and literally EVERY SINGLE ONE of their recommendations has sustained major losses, some upwards of 80%. This during a time period when throwing the money in SPY would have yielded significant gains.
Their proposition is as follows: spend money on us, in order that we can help you lose money.
Verified
Not impressed
Not impressed
Four years ago I thought I would do some investing but due to my lack of experience I decided to look into Motley Fools. It has not worked out well. They are great marketers, but oversell and exaggerate their results. I followed their formula - at least 20 of their picks, held for at least three years and now I'm down 22% overall. Not a single pick of theirs is worth more than when I bought it. On the other hand the stocks I picked on my own are up over 30%. Granted they are boring picks (Apple, Amazon,Netflix, Uber, etc) but much better performers than Teledoc, Zoom, Fiver, W, BL, CPNG, and many others that were touted by
Motley Fools and promptly tanked. I learned my lesson and are going to sell their poor performers. Think twice about signing up with them
Verified
The basic service is not what it was a few years ago.
The basic service is not what it was a few years ago. It would seem to me all you get is a basic outline of the stock you could get anywhere, nothing I searched had any recommendations. It would seem that the basic membership has become just a tool to up sell you to a much more expensive service! I had set up a stock portfolio for long term and had not invested of a few years, but kept up the Fool membership as I planned to invest again later and now is that time, the only thing left on the Fool profile was my credit card number!
There was a time when you guys put out newsletters and you did an awesome job and had the two founders and maybe a few writers then and now you have become ridiculous and every article is about trying to get everybody to go to more articles and "here are ones we like more" but you got to pay. it just discredits you. You lose all credibility with all these articles and sometimes you have writer's contradicting each other putting out articles on the same company and they have different opinions, and also what's really weird is when you do sign up for this company they send you emails and physical letters that welcome you as a fool -it's ridiculous. if you subscribe to investors Business daily, Wall Street journal, they don't call you "hello daily", "hello journal" but they say hi fool, I think it's kind of stupid
Verified
The Motley Fool is a big terrible scam platform
Their platform promises attractive returns, but it's all smoke and mirrors.
I strongly advise against getting involved with The Motley Fool, as my experience suggests they are operating as a scam. Be cautious, as engaging with them could lead to financial loss and other negative outcomes. I was able to recover my money, but it was only possible through external assistance. (I used their website URL as my display name and profile picture on this review in case anyone needs help or wants to reach out for support).
Note: Due to the strict policy here, I'm sharing this purely to help others recover their funds.
Reply from The Motley Fool
2024.10.07
This review is a spam/scam review and has been flagged for removal.
I have had Motley Fool for 4-5 yrs now. My experience is as follows: Many of their recommendations are very risky and you can loose significant amount; of course they recommend few good recommendations too. When the stock market is up, their recommendation also do well as is the case with many other recommendations by others. One thing which they lack is to tell the customers when to sell the stock. My observation is that they put sell recommendation for stocks when it is down > 60, 70, 90% value! (despite that fact some of them had appreciation over 100% in a few months). Another thing they say is to hold these stocks for 5 years.; For example, if you had their recommended stocks like SKLZ, FUBO, BAND, DOCN, RDFN, UPST, FLGT, U, MQ etc. you lost significantly! Diversification is another issue but hey are getting better over the last year or so. In my opinion, it is far better to invest in various ETFs for example, such as SCHG, VONG, SPY, VB and the like. Of course they also have winners such as CRWD, MELI, AMZN and the like and but they are relatively few compared to many losers.
Verified
The worst decision of my life.
Their "stock advisor" has the worst stock picks. The overall market has been up, but all of the stocks I bought through their advisor are all down close to 90%... all of them. I can't even get out because I'd lose too much. So I'm stuck on the sidelines in these dog stock picks, while everyone else is making money. Don't do it.
Reply from The Motley Fool
2024.08.05
Thank you for your feedback. There isn't a financial publisher, The Motley Fool included, that can promise that a recommended stock will not encounter market fluctuations. Investments are inherently a risk, and the market will fluctuate. When we recommend a stock in any subscription or strategy, we are doing so with the intention of holding that stock for 5 years, minimum. As long-term investors, we recognize that stock prices will fluctuate. That being said, we won’t always recommend a sell just because the stock price drops. We prefer to hold stocks in companies that we are confident in for the long term.
If you have any other questions, need assistance navigating our website, or would like to share additional feedback, please reach out to our Member Services department - we're happy to help! You can reach our representatives via the Help tab on Fool.com or by email - Help@Fool.com
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Definitely a waste of time and too pushy to sell more services. Their business model must have been built by a child.
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