The Motley Fool is a legit company created to help individual investors understand investing basics and provide them with investing ideas. They encourage investors who are willing to spend the time researching companies to be long term holders of a diverse portfolio. They very clearly identify that most of an investor's gains will be driven by a small number of the stocks in their portfolio and that a large number of your picks may lose to the market (some might be outright losers). The Fool teaches the process for identifying the publicly traded companies that might have a higher probability of beating the market over 3 to 5 years or more.

kind of a scam: impossible to cancel auto-renew subscription from their website and impossible to contact member support, been trying HARD for 15 days...

Legit! I've been aware of them for about 21 years and have subscribed (pay service) for 4 years with phenomenal results. I've looked at their recs going back to '04, and in a word, wow! They've had some really big returning stocks, but even their ones that are out of this world give considerably better returns than the S&P500 on average. They don't all hit, but more do than don't by a fair margin. Add in a few big hitters and you've got a recipe for success.

it is legit, have been using for couple of years now, so far I am happy with the outcome

The Motley Fool is legit and they have been around for a long time.

Motley Fool is definitely legit -- great source of information and inspiration.

Legit company that scams for more money by promissing the next BIG opportunity, IF you pay more.

Basially a scam, since their recommendation do not really work. It's like if you randomly picking stocks, you would come up with about the same result.