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***** Spammy? NO Renewed? 3 years. |
Covers the major US markets: S&P, Dow, Nasdaq; Credit Market; International markets; US Dollar; Commodities; Gold and "Technical Spotlights", which look at specific trades on both the long and short side. Comprehensive suggestions for entry points, stops, exits, support, resistance; short term medium term and long term thresholds for bullish/bearish/neutral and quite frankly, the guy is right most of the time.
This newsletter never tries to upsell you to *anything*, the only possible upsell you are presented with is the option to take the extra "Mid-Issue Updates" which I highly recommend. Beyond that, the only time you ever hear from this person is when the newsletter (which itself contains no advertising) or alerts arrive in your mailbox. |
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**** Spammy? Somewhat Renewed? No. |
I have to hand it to these guys, they have marketing down cold. They are a machine in this respect. Once you subscribe you get a very impressive welcome kit which contains your special reports, the first issues of the newsletters, an identification card I was half expecting a ring with a pseudo-Masonic symbol on it.
Most of the positions they recommend were profitable. (I typically don't enter exact positions recommended by newsletters, I use them to confirm or question what I have formulated for myself or point me in new directions of exploration.) And Oxford is very good at keeping one's horizons open. They're a little heavy on the marketing and upsells, but its tolerable because the content is there. Although sometimes they lay it on a little thick and some of the upsells are a full order of magnitude more expensive than the original newsletter. In the end I didn't renew my subscription basically to "keep a slot open" and see if I could replace it with something better. I thought that might be.... |
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0 Spammy? Totally. Renewed? I doubt it. |
Does the phrase "Bait-n-switch" mean anything to you? Read on... This guy saw me coming. I subscribed for two years at $247 and thus far have received 6 email spams trying to sell me more newsletters for thousands of dollars each and received 3 more postal ads for the same. 4 of these email spams came after I requested that I no longer receive promotional mailings. Today I called their customer service and complained and was assured they would fax my first issues and intro reports right out to me, they haven't. No idea what the newsletter is like since I haven't gotten anything yet. So from where I'm sitting its $247 to get a steady stream of more marketing crap and no substance. This thing is a joke. Stay clear. Update: woke up this morning, another email spam from them. I think it's one per day now. Still nothing in my faxbox, nothing I actually paid for. Still getting all the ads despite at least two assurances now that I would be removed from the promotional mailing list. Update: At last, my "welcome kit" arrived. It and three more postal mailings that were more advertisements for Bob's other newsletters. And one more email spam and one more postal mailing yesterday (the next day). Update: No further issues of my newsletter have arrived in nearly two months. Today I thought it arrived but when I opened it it was just another pitch for his options hotline service for over a thousand dollars. Gee, I wonder how many advertisements and spams that buys you. Update Mar/16/04: Two more sales letters this week promoting his "Penny Oil Speculator", $2500 for three months "introductory offer". Each sales letter describes an oil stock with what we call in the business "a good story". I pose the question: why aren't I reading about these two companies in an issue of the original newsletter I've already paid for? So far I've received one issue in nearly three months. I'm going to start a score table counting email spams, sales letters and actual newsletters. The figures in columns one and two are actually much higher, but I am starting to count the ones I haven't deleted or thrown out. I have a two year subscription with these guys, so I will count every single one here.
This "newsletter" is a total rip off. It's basically a pay-for-ads scheme. AVOID LIKE THE PLAGUE. Update: August, 2004: I finally got myself removed from the "advertising" list back in about April, after numerous complaints and phone calls. Alas, I've only gotten one actual newsletter since, later that same month. I haven't heard a peep out of these guys since well before the summer, all this on my two year subscription. You've been warned. Update September, 2004: Still no more newsletters but it looks like I'm back on for the ads. Today I received a "special situation report" for some diamond related penny stock, which he'll reveal to me if I renew my subscription (can you believe it?) NOW. Guess it doesn't matter that I subscribed for two years in January and have gotten a grand total of 2 newsletters. | |||||||||
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