The Foolies are back in our inboxes — or in mine, at least, and I can’t imagine they’re not plying their promises to the rest of you as well. This time, they’re trying to sell subscriptions to their flagship Stock Advisor newsletter, along with their annual special report on stocks for next year. We’ve looked [...]
OK, I’m just about out of time as I rush to begin the fabulous Gumshoe vacation, but I’ve got a quick new one to share with you before I get sand between my toes. This one is from an ad for the Wealth Advisory, by Steve Christ, and it’s about uranium enrichment. I can’t go [...]
Here we’ve got a rerun for your Friday enyoyment — I’ll probably get to some more good stuff for weekend to keep you all Gumshoe-d up, but for now this might keep you busy, I’ve had a few dozen emails about it just in the last day so this particular ad campaign must be heating [...]
This email had has been circulating for a few days, and the “hook” of the ad was the annual meeting of ExxonMobil. You probably heard all about that meeting, if you watched CNBC at all or read any business news. The Rockefeller family, descendants of the founder of Standard Oi (predecessor of ExxonMobil), and still [...]
Here we have another newsletter from the folks who brought us Green Chip Stocks, which has been riding herd on the wave of environmentally friendly investors with a near-constant stream of new teaser ads. This latest ad, from Jeff Siegel for the new service, talks about “clean air cash-outs”, which as I read it are [...]
This one has caused quite a stir among the vast and mighty Gumshoe readership, if my steady deluge of email is any indication. Everybody loves growth stocks, especially when nothing else seems to be growing, and everyone thinks alternative energy will be the next billionaire-maker — the Fool compares the current situation in alternative energy [...]
This ad comes in from Greg Guenthner (who likes to call himself “Gunner”) and the good folks at Bulletin Board Elite, a subscription service that will run you $2,000 a year … and he backs up his claim to your money by sharing stories of several bulletin board and OTC stocks that had remarkable runs [...]
If you want to get my goat, just start your teaser, “If you could own but one stock for the rest of your life, this would be it!” Come on people, something a little more original, please! Well, this fella is selling his service by essentially promising that this stock will turn you into a [...]
The Motley Fool has an investment newsletter called Global Gains, by Bill Mann, that offers up international investment advice for $199 a year, and they recently have been advertising the service by teasing up three different small cap companies, what they call their “Hidden Advantage Stocks.” (And actually, I seem to remember them advertising this [...]
