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December 2023 by Shane Harris
Poor experience with this outfit. I know there's no guarantee but I picked stocks better they they did! I think it's rigged. They are always trying to up-sell you. Cancelled my subscription 10 months early and no refund. There must be better sources for investment advice.
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November 2023 by Kevin McCusker
Don’t waste your money. In my experience they pushed a lot of overvalued stocks and SPACS (which are not great investment tools). Do your own research or pay a professional to do it - not them
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October 2023 by She Hopke
I paid $100 a year and the only thing I can see that I have gotten out of it is the opportunity to spend hundreds of dollars to get advice. I will not pay again.
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October 2023 by William H.
The Fools sent me an email asking for my thoughts on their service so I filled it out, submited it, only to be deluged with 10 to 20 other more expensive services. It was nothing but a sales gimmick but after 2-3 months with The Fool what else would I expect. Stay away from these people! A few index funds and mutual funds and you will do much better. In only 2-3 months I have lost 15% on all of their recommendations.
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September 2023 by Sylvain Kalache
I was a customer for a year, the stocks I bought based on their recommendations are on average -60% after an average holding of 2 years. My own portfolio is doing way better. Stay away from this service.
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August 2023 by David A
Paid $1000 for membership and invested in their “sure fire” picks that were thought to triple or more in next 12 months. 24 months later, I’m down 80+% in all their recommended investments. All they care about is selling more memberships to you after you already purchase one. Lost tens of thousands of dollars by listening to them. One stock in particular was purchased at $160/share. Now worth $.75/share for a 99% loss on my investment. Lost $8,000 on just that one “sure fire” recommendation. So disgusted. Stay away from these con artists.
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July 2023 by tomchei yesomin
I subscribed for a basic subscription. I am not getting recommendations I when I sign into the Motley fool it doesn’t let me Read the recommendations. The page goes blank after I try to hit any title. They are good at automatic email responses. But I don’t get Customer service support
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May 2023 by Boris R.
Don't waste your money and time with these fools. It's all hype and constant emails asking to upgrade to a much more expensive version of advice. I had a 2-year subscription starting in 2020. Unfortunately, I bought 5 of their recommendations. With 1 stock up about 20 %, and the other 4 down 40 to 100%. Silicon Valley Bank, which they still recommended in January 2023, went into bankruptcy on March 9, 2023, resulting in a total loss of $ 110 K . I've been investing myself for over 50 years and never had a calamity like this ever.I've also had a theoretical portfolio of 25 stocks they recommended. Those stocks today are mostly down 20 to 60% over a 2-year period. These guys picked a few winners a long time ago, but today, it's mostly hype and lousy results for your money. Stay away,,,,
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January 2023 by Paul G.
I signed up with MF about 2 years ago and bought several stocks based on their recommendations. Some of these are now down 90%. Of course I started ignoring their emails and texts after every single pick was down significantly. Their business model is to auto-renew memberships and hope the customer doesn't notice. My intro 2 years were $99 and I forgot to cancel the auto-renew and they charged $199. No reminder email or anything. When I attempted to get a pro-rated refund I was informed that the charge was non-refundable. I did not ask to get a full refund, only the portion that was remaining in my membership. The $200 is kind of like putting salt in the wound when you look at how much money I'm down on their picks.
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January 2023 by Murray I.
They are truly fools. I joined 2 years ago, after seeing their ads claiming how good they were at picking winning stocks. One of their recommendations that I bought was Crowdstrike. A few months after I bought it, it was down. I understand that stocks go up and down but what pissed me off was that after I bought it and it was down, the fools were still recommending it. Kind of hard to put into words but when I bought it, the fools were showing a graph of how much it had went up since they picked it. After I bought it and it was down from the price I paid for it and the fools were still recommending it, they were using another graph to show how much it had gone up, after a dip in price. The price was still down from what I had paid for it but the graph they used showed how it was going up after a dip. When i sold it, it was down 50% from what I paid for it. Stick with Cramer!
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December 2022 by Matthew Dunton
I joined this service a couple of months ago, getting 'a deal' for paying 100 per year for the most basic stock advisory list. Although this is not much, it is equivalent to a Spotify or Netflix cost on a month by month basis. What happened after has been extremely disappointing and I will not be upgrading or adding any services here. I would even say this is near close to a scam. They recommend some 'timely stocks', which have dropped 25% or more lately. Ok, the stock market hasn't been great but their picks have been particular disasters. In addition, I am constantly, and I mean constantly being bombarded by emails and on platform adds to pay more money to get 'better' recommendations. What a joke. Honestly, you can find all information and much higher quality for free. I basically paid for trash, generic info and to be hounded by ads from them constantly. I wouldn't wish this on my own enemies. Terrible product.
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December 2022 by Lindsay Barnes
So I joined MF on a basic service, then was bombarded with offers of services that claim significantly better performance then the S&P500 ETC. After careful consideration and reading their growth statements I upgraded my service to Blast off 21, at nearly $2000AUD, and invested a significant amount of money!After nearly 6 months the portfolio is over 20% down, whilst the S&P is 15% up. They state to hold for 3 years for returns, that said the current losses will most likely take at least a year to recover, if they do.When I wrote to them asking what, or if there is a strategy to help improve the performance of the portfolio. I receive an unbelievable response stating "they take no responsibility for the performance of the recommendations", and I am "responsible for the investments", even though the whole intention of the service is to recommend stocks and follow their recommendations to the letter, which I initially did. Along with some statements clearly expressing their legal responsibility.So you will only hear about the wins and the outstanding performance of some of their stocks, but not the losses, and don't expect MF to offer any useful responses to when they don't perform.Of course all companies will state their wins, I completely understand this, but its when things go wrong that the true measure of a company and its customer service will be evident.I also understand that stocks can go down significantly with market swings. But when a service is openly and clearly marketed, and sold on its performance to against another and then fails miserably one has the right to be upset.The most disappointing part was their response to my question.This clearly showed them to be a marketing company and not a true investment advisory company
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December 2022 by ryan jones
As of now, I would not recommend Motley Fool anything. I am new to investing and stocks, due to just finishing school and starting a full-time job. I invested about $1,850 over 6 months and that grew to about $2,150 prior to applying the Motley Fool paid subscriptions to my stock portfolio. So about a month ago, I changed my portfolio up to what the Motley Fool would recommend and since I did that, my investment amount has gone from ~$2,150 to about $1,750 ($400 loss). I know it's not much to most people. But to me, that's a loss of about 18% which I was not happy about and it would have been a lot higher if I had more money in there. I'm sad my investment isn't likely to grow the market average of 7% over the next year.Revision two months later (01/27): I removed some of my money out of Robinhood, but here's a screenshot of what's happened over the last 3 months due to signing up for Motley Fool and choosing the stocks they recommended... absolute garbage.
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December 2022 by Billy Matchett
The Motley Fool lies to their customers by saying,"The Motley Fool has been a trusted source of investment and financial advice to millions of members."No one believes their fake, biased, paid-for articles that are written by them, and to make matters worse, they try and sell their shill media as a subscription. Do not make the same mistake I did by paying for a membership thinking you would get credible investing advice. They do not have retails best interest in mind, they are a hedge fund looking to line their pockets.
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December 2022 by Beary Beary
Lost significant money because of their advice. They seem only to evaluate if the business is good. They did not consider that the stock was already grossly overvalued. They even recommended “all-in” buys at close to 3x of what a stock price is now. Doesn’t seem to me like they know what they are doing.
