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As a new-ish investor I signed up to learn more. I am getting upsell sales push emails numerous times every day. The recommended 'picks' have been pretty much the same each time, maybe 1 might change but then they add it back in the following time. Emails come from different people within the organisation so hard to track how many emails. It is 11.50am on Wednesday and I've received 7 'upsell' emails since Monday. I DO NOT recommend.

Geeze disappointing to see all the bad reviews. I was a member for a few years which ended around 7 years ago, and they had some very good tips. All Aussie stocks. You need to be a bit selective and go with stocks in industries you know well - I went with some of their tech stocks and did pretty well. Wish I'd hung on to some a lot longer, eg… Read more

Nearmap and Xero - they went up a lot after I got out. I suggest you sit on their recommendations for a few months, as you will prob get a better entry, or avoid a costly mistake. Research the management, read the fin reports, do your own due diligence. Sell when you think it's over valued. If you want to mindlessly follow stock tips, you won't make money anywhere. Also, don't exclusively trade their tips - follow the market & make your own selections as well. Treat it as an extra source of info, and you won't get (as) burnt.

Worth the cost – Hate it's auto renewal policy which can't be cancelled from website itself after member login. But they cancelled it pretty promptly after I called the customer care. The suggestion on stocks are worth the cost.

GOod system- I like their long term attitude and good source of information – I use it to gather information as I don't have time to my own detailed advice. Like their logic behind their recommendations. They do send out a lot of spam which I chose to ignore

Great service, very helpful – Motley Fool offers great subscription services which have greatly assisted me in my investing. When I wanted to take a break, it was easy to cancel and the team were very understanding and helpful. Excellent product for a very reasonable price.

Absolute SCAM. as others said I paid the subscription then found their recommended buys ALL became losses. I have lost thousands and then they keep sending you upgrades to a higher recommended service After many emails about their advice they canceled the And they have auto renew subscription.

From my initial interaction with Laura Cooper’s team, I experienced a high level of professionalism, empathy, and responsiveness. They took the time to fully understand my concerns, offering prompt and well-structured guidance throughout the entire process. What truly set them apart was their commitment to providing customized, effective… Read more

solutions—not just temporary fixes. Their expertise, patience, and consistent support turned a stressful situation into one of clarity and trust. I highly recommend Laura Cooper for anyone seeking reliable and professional assistance.

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I certainly was a fool. They got me and I stupidly fell for the first upgrade to 'Silver' from 'Share Advisor' on sign up not twigging this would become the norm. Once you have joined you then start to get offered higher levels to subscribe to. Knowing this at the start I would never have joined as had an expectation I would be getting their… Read more

best information. I expected to get this access and not to need to continually subscribe to higher levels. Safe to say after failing to get a refund (outside of 30 days) I have cancelled my auto renewal, waste of money for me. Scroll down read the numerous similar review, wish I had.

Save your money. I signed up & paid an annual subscription to understand investing in the Australian share market. I received no advice on how the share market worked but lots of - invest in these stocks now. Because I was new to this, I trusted the motley fool australia and put money on 2 of the 5 companies they recommended. The shares were… Read more

already bearish & have since tanked and I'm unable to sell them because I've lost 49% & 34% respectively. Going back over the original advice, I realised the advice was months old by the time I received it and the market had changed. I only wish they had held off telling me which shares to invest in rather given me given me clear advice on what to look for, how to interpret the research from stock brokers & to do my own research on each company. Maybe they did ? but the amount of emails advising me to buy, marketing for their new products etc was so overwhelming that I couldn't keep up and just went with what I thought was good recommendations from a reputable advisory firm. Needless to say, I won't be renewing. I get better advice from Google.

Criminals, thieves, crooks. I found out about Motley about 3 years ago. Can't recall what interaction I had with them and haven't gone to the website since. Think I get an email everynow and then. All of a sudden $300 came out of my credit card on Saturday. No email or notification. Absolute thieves!! I've written to them on every email i could find because their phone number is disconnected of course. No reply. The guys are criminals.

It is so disappointing being a subscriber of Motley Fool. I really have been made a fool: having paid a large annual fee that I was persuaded to bump up to access extra benefits, then to daily get no real investor information at all but endless promotions to subscribe to further services/subscriptions for half price at some exorbitant fee expiring… Read more

in a few hours then extended, almost every day. As a subscriber I get some vague, information-less hook-in trying to get me to buy a further subscriptions to access some promised jewels. You are clearly a self-serving money making con. Scott Phillip’s opinionated drivel just adds insult to injury.

They don’t really offer anything more than what you get through free media. I dont appreciate receiving click bait emails. If you join this you will be treated as a fool and ignorant investor. Will not be renewing

Is zero stars possible? The worse investment decision of my life. The Motley Fool recommendations are terrible. They were going around telling people banks were a bad investment after COVID, and recommended small technology companies that performed very poorly, some lost 95% of their value. Banks have done very well, wrong as usual. Stay away from these fools.

Terrible advice and they seem to be trying to artificially inflate shares as well, recommending shares that tanks a few months later (probably after they have sold off all their interests).

The bad picks are as numerous as the good picks. In one case, the company listed as a buy went into liquidation a few weeks later, indicating a severe lack of due diligence.

Don't be a fool by subscribing to Motley Fool! – I got suckered into paying USD $99 annual subscription for a promise of some great advice on investing in stock, etc. etc. Instead, the so-called "advice" was only centered on AI, and only AI. Even worse, the so-called advice I've seen had been predominantly marketing hype to entice you to pay for another USD $300+ for "Epic" subscription. But… Read more

wait... There's more! I went to their FAQ on how to turn off the automatic subscription. The link they provided only took me to the settings page where there was NO way to turn off the automatic renewal!! I think I'm going to have to change my credit card number again by telling the bank that I lost my card.

You would do well to avoid Motley Fool recommended buys - at all costs – another very bad Motley Fool recommendation IPG - crashed 22% in one week while the ASX hit record highs. Here’s some smart advice for stocks punters - subscribe to Motley Fool and avoid all their recommendations. That way you wont buy poorly researched un-insightful recommendations.

Be aware – I signed up for The Motley Fool’s Stock Advisor service in 2021 but stopped using it after that year. I was unaware that the subscription would automatically renew every year, as I didn’t notice the reminders they claim to have sent. Unfortunately, I only realized last week that they had been charging me annually without my knowledge. When I… Read more

requested refunds for the years I didn’t use the service, they refused to refund the charges from 2022 and 2023, citing their Terms and Conditions. I was disappointed by their lack of flexibility or understanding of the situation, especially since I hadn’t used the service after 2021.

If you’re considering signing up, be very cautious about their auto-renewal policy and keep an eye on your account statements. This experience has left me feeling frustrated, and I hope others avoid similar issues.

One of the worse mistakes I have ever made – I have followed their recommendations, diversified, stayed for the long run. Years later from over 30 stock pics - 27 are losing with many suffering drastic, non recoverable losses such as 90 and 95 percent down. The market has recovered during that time but somewhat not their recommended stocks. This is very odd as you would think that even a… Read more

random stock pick would result in a better outcome. Highly suspicious, featuring and a major concern as I have moved the family savings to their recommendations. We will never be able to recover from this mistake. I have even emailed them the list of pics and outcome years later and asked for an opinion and reevaluation. Yet no one bothered to reply. Stay away!

Who's the Fool? – I thought I would check my trading strategy by subscribing. Result a waste of money. Most of their suggested stocks were close or at their peak as buys. I tracked their suggested stocks and would have lost money if I followed them. They are really annoying because they keep spamming you with other offers. If you want to fill up your inbox with pointless emails and wish to buy stocks at their peak this is the subscription for you

Scott is a Fool – The head guy on channel 9 sunday nights is an idiot. He gets the futures wrong nearly every week. Last night he said the market would be down half a percent its up a half a percent. I don't know what futures he is looking at but surely Channel 9 can do better than him

Fraud – Subscribed 5 months ago ...still not able to log in...poor customer support...willing to accept refund, or credit for inability to log in ....motley fool not capable of providing access to their service after payment

Save your hard earned for something else – What a joke this subscription turned out to be. Only to be bombarded with spam and meaningless emails several times a day. Must of the emails aiming to get you to spend more on a different membership level. Once bitten!!!

Anyone is a true fool to follow their advice – I am a little scared to actually look at the thousands and thousands of dollars I have lost from following any of the foolish advice given by these so called experts, who also flip flop constantly between what stocks are buy/sell to such a degree that in the end you are so confused as to what stocks they truly stand behind. Since 2014, there is only one (Xero) stock I made a profit on with the rest being such intense losses.