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BusinessInsider Reviews Summary

BusinessInsider has a rating of 1.5 stars from 50 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. BusinessInsider ranks 1026th among News sites.

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1 review
0 helpful votes
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Pure Trash
March 11, 2024

This joke of a news site is just that, a JOKE. You all need to get a life and stop acting like a real news site.

OMG

Date of experience: March 11, 2024
California
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Subscription Hell
February 17, 2023

Content-wise, the quality is marginal, and you'd be better off subscribing to other publications. (Try ProPublica or local independent sources like Block Club Chicago or Voice of San Diego.)

The real issue is that you sign up for 2 years. In that 2 years, you'll forget you're subscribed. They will not send you an email about your impending auto-renewal. When you get smashed with a $179 charge, and try to cancel, they will only let you cancel *future* subscriptions and tell you your current subscription is ongoing.

If you email them, they point you to a FAQ that says the same thing -- you're stuck for the next 2 years.

The only way to cancel your current subscription is to dispute the charge through your credit card company.

This is a $#*!ty way to do business. Extorting and strong-arming people is not ethical. Also, they should at least send an email about impending renewals. But in general, forcing people to use your product does not say much for the product.

The reason the subscription period is 2 years is now apparent -- so you'll forget about it. It's scammy and scummy.

Date of experience: February 17, 2023
Massachusetts
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Untrustworthy
February 11, 2023

What a disgrace for journalism. Most, if not all, of their articles are untrustworthy. They use big head lines to fool you to pay for subscription. I am not an idiot to believe in those stories. They make you pay for reading their make up stories. Double scam.

Date of experience: February 11, 2023
Connecticut
1 review
0 helpful votes
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It is a political tool and scram. No lower limit. No moral. No credit. It is a political tool and scram. No lower limit. No moral. No credit. It is a political tool and scram. No lower limit. No moral. No credit.

Date of experience: May 20, 2022
New Jersey
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I, one individual have had business insider subscriptions in the past. I have had fraudulent charges on multiple seperate occasions. I canceled my membership on two separate occasions and the charges kept rolling in

Date of experience: May 7, 2022
Hong Kong
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Don't bother subscribing or worse buying their subscription, you won't be able to Cancel your subscription via the account profile the button doesn't work, the unscribing newsletter doesn't work either. I had to cancel authorization payment via Paypal to make sure that i won't be charged again. Many red flags that should just show any customers how this business is just on cash grab any legit subscription Newspaper allow any user to cancel their subscription without hassle in few clicks... The so called
4- 'Choose 'Don't bill me again' Button doesn't exist... maybe they will re-implement them after my review to show people that i was lying or creating BS...-5 Stars...

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Date of experience: April 5, 2022
Oklahoma
1 review
4 helpful votes
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BuisnessInsider: WTF
December 9, 2021

This site is not informative. It writes what you want to hear: gossip. I am younger than 15 and even after one look I could tell that this site is lying to you. It is so obvious that I don't know why people give it better than a two star rating. For example, in the article 10 Vices That Are Actually Good For You, it states that smoking marijuana is good for you because according the the American Journal of Medicine, 16 percent of people who smoke have lower fasting insulin levels and smaller waist circumferences. However, it "forgets" to mention that a more recent study by the American Journal of Medicine showed that people who smoke marijuana have higher odds of stroke and myocardial infarction or coronary artery disease, with a possible role in premature cardiovascular disease. Also people who smoke marijuana have changes in brain maturation and intellectual function, including decreases in intelligence quotient.
In conclusion, please don't read the BusinessInsider.

Date of experience: December 9, 2021
Pennsylvania
3 reviews
5 helpful votes
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100 trackers per minute
November 23, 2021

Yep, you read that right, and no, I'm not exaggerating, and that's only from known trackers, imagine how many more backdoor deals with your info are taking place!
There is an image attached of how many KNOWN trackers were caught, I was there for less than a minute!

Date of experience: November 23, 2021
Canada
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Business Insider's articles lack fact, substance or high quality reporting. They claim to be a business news source yet their "articles" seem more appropriate to be in tabloids rather than claiming to be a credible news source.

Date of experience: November 14, 2021
New York
3 reviews
42 helpful votes
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Pure Hate
November 14, 2021

If this rag didn't have Trump to hate on, they couldn't publish a single story. They're low life pond sumb

Date of experience: November 14, 2021
Kansas
1 review
12 helpful votes
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This is the worst company I have ever seen. They are full of lies. Seriously, get out while you can.

Date of experience: November 11, 2021
Georgia
1 review
2 helpful votes
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This site and this so-called business journal is a joke and a rip-off. They are a political tool, have no actual important information, and their reporter Julia Black is a racist.

Date of experience: November 8, 2021
Canada
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Journalism for idiots
November 8, 2021

100 character minimum? Don't need that much to say these people are sad excuses for human beings pretending to be journalists.

Date of experience: November 8, 2021
New Hampshire
1 review
11 helpful votes
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Disgrace to journalism
November 8, 2021

Just an absolute disgrace to journalism. Unethical practices that create a horrible narrative for all journalists in the world.

Date of experience: November 8, 2021
Kansas
1 review
8 helpful votes
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Dubious Journalism
November 7, 2021

Business Insider calls itself "journalism". However, it appears they are actually hack activists. How bottom of the barrel do you have to be to work there?

Date of experience: November 7, 2021
Florida
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Scam
November 6, 2021

They're content is horrible and they charge a fee to read. They make up lies about people to get clicks!

Date of experience: November 6, 2021
Minnesota
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Cancel Culture Cesspool
November 4, 2021

Fake news, hit price writing, dirty, agenda driven, cancel culture supporting, lying no good excuse for journalism.

Date of experience: November 4, 2021
California
1 review
10 helpful votes
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To describe having to show a photo ID in order to vote as "voter suppression" is absurdly dishonest. Millions of Americans of all political points of view did not like or want a repeat of the questionable actions by many during the 2020 election. Describing bi-partisan legislation by individual states to reduce opportunity for fraud as "voter suppression" is just insulting to the states and the people living there. Extreme actions motivated by loathing of one man skewed the election. We now have the first Senile puppet President. Democrats knew before the election Biden was incompetent but the lust for power and the loathing (He's not one of us) drove them on. Not the interests of the nation. Partisanship before the public interest. Pelosi was seeking to form a committee to enact the 25th Amendment before the election. She was asked "Is this for Trump?" She said "No".
This media company is presenting propaganda as news. Mis/dis information styled for dissemination to a demographic. Falsehoods. They dispense much of it free but mostly they want subscribers.

Date of experience: August 29, 2021
Pennsylvania
1 review
12 helpful votes
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To view any of their articles you need to create an account and put a card on file.

After a certain point they just lock the content and there is no way to view anything without being forced to make an account. It's ridiculous at this point.

Date of experience: August 23, 2021
Illinois
1 review
7 helpful votes
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Obsession
July 16, 2021

You guys are really obsessed over Trump, and he's literally out of office. Even after he's out, he's still making stories for you guys

Date of experience: July 16, 2021