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Overview

Forbes has a rating of 3.89 stars from 178 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally satisfied with their purchases. Reviewers satisfied with Forbes most frequently mention stewart pinkerton. Forbes ranks 3rd among Business News sites.

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Positive highlights

  • Great site for those who has keen interest in knowing the market updates specially best for b-school candidates...
  • 2018 Customer Choice Winner

Critical highlights

  • Author Stewart Pinkerton spent 20 years as a writer and editor at 'Forbes.'
How would you rate Forbes?
Top Positive Review

“Have an interest in business”

Arie v.
1/3/24

Used to having a big interest to the business world and didn't hesitate acquiring forbes magazines to stay tuned. I always liked reading their magazines, cause there are many successful stories of different worldwide entrepeneurs. Other than that, forbes is considered to be the highest social media about financial. So, I'm a satisfied reader, fortunately, nowadays everything's digital.

Top Critical Review

“Forbes reviews are fabrications”

Ann G.
8/25/23

I will never trust a Forbes reviews again. They falsify ratings and curate reviews in order to gain customers for sub standard businesses. I got tied up with UFB Direct and AXOS Bank that took years off my life. Independent search of reviews of the company puts them at 2.5, Forbes lists them as 3.7-4. I want to make it very clear that I chose UFB because of the false/curated reviews Forbes provided.

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Thumbnail of user angiew348
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
February 1st, 2024

Forbes articles are not truthful, if they don't like someone they will continue to lie about that person. I found at least 7 that were not truthful, will never again

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2 reviews
0 helpful votes
August 25th, 2023

I will never trust a Forbes reviews again. They falsify ratings and curate reviews in order to gain customers for sub standard businesses. I got tied up with UFB Direct and AXOS Bank that took years off my life. Independent search of reviews of the company puts them at 2.5, Forbes lists them as 3.7-4. I want to make it very clear that I chose UFB because of the false/curated reviews Forbes provided.

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Thumbnail of user lavigeboy27
1 review
0 helpful votes
September 2nd, 2023

Completely make up bullsh!t stories. Do not trust the garbage they print. Bought and paid for by the wealthy.

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Thumbnail of user davidh8121
1 review
1 helpful vote
January 14th, 2023

If you do not mind constant emails that you ask to be unsubscribed from and constant pop ups about surveys and newsletters, this online magazine/news/etc. Would be great. However if you would like to read a single article without being interupted by a pop up of some kind, do not buy this subscription. You cannot get a response from their tech about anything.

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Thumbnail of user bp581
1 review
0 helpful votes
January 27th, 2023

Content of Forbes has a relatively low value/quality as news. Articles are reverse-engendered to serve as bait for clicks and successful content is re-used multiple times. If you need well written, informative content, Forbes may be for you but if you need up to date information and news, look at a more serious source.

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1 review
1 helpful vote
January 5th, 2022

I personally do not enjoy that people who aren't subscribed have a limited number of times that they can look at an article. I would rate it higher if i could see more articles.

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Thumbnail of user seanr616
1 review
0 helpful votes
April 8th, 2023

Claims a line clearing charge is equal to a thermobaric weapon,what an ignorant joke more david axe idiotic rubbish

Thumbnail of user teddys25
1 review
4 helpful votes
October 19th, 2019

Forbes.com prevents users who block ads from viewing their website. For a company that puts out a list of the richest Americans, they must really be struggling. Their content is click bait and their writers are pretentious and inept at their jobs. I block all search results from Forbes.com now, and I highly suggest everyone else do the same. It will save you a tremendous amount of wasted time, because I assure you, there is nothing worth viewing on their website.

Thumbnail of user williamj1902
1 review
0 helpful votes
December 13th, 2022

Forbes company created a 12,800 acre, 3500 lot, subdivision in Missouri called Forbes Lake of the Ozarks Park in 1983-1984, but they failed to bother to get the legally required Missouri Department of Natural Resources approvals to make this subdivision a legal subdivision. Now Missouri DNR has decided to go after all the current lot owners and after the private Forbes Land Owners Association due to Forbes company not following the subdivision laws at that time. Missouri DNR is now considering it illegal for 3500 lot owners, who have been paying taxes and association dues for almost 40 years, from building on or re-selling their lots. This (retroactive) regulating from DNR against those who bought lots in Forbes LOA subdivision in good faith over the last 40 years, believing the subdivision was a legal subdivision, is harming 3500 lot owners. Forbes should step up and do whatever is now required by Missouri DNR to make Forbes LOA subdivision legal. But I doubt that will ever happen because I suspect that money is more important to Forbes than the thousands of people who believed that any subdivision developed by Forbes, and with Forbes name on it, was legal and not a scam.

Thumbnail of user franks575
1 review
7 helpful votes
October 12th, 2019

All media companies now exist for one reason, and it isn't to provide news. It's to create reasons for people to give them money, either directly with sales of their publications, or indirectly with advertising. Everything aside from making money is secondary at best. So any way possible that they can increase their bottom line is well inside what they are willing to do. Sadly, you can't trust ANY media outlet for real news today, but particularly greedy Forbes.

Thumbnail of user mattw380
1 review
3 helpful votes
September 7th, 2019

Of course Forbes pops up on google first when searching about certain games or gaming information. However, none of these articles deserve to show first. It's like hearing complaining on video games from people who don't ever play video games.
There are many more reliable sources for gaming information. Not to mention these better sources are usually non-biased. Forbes easily fits in with the huge media that looks down on gaming. Remember folks, if it gets good coverage, chances are it's worse than the games big media $#*!s on or gives no coverage at all.

Thumbnail of user johnk3303
1 review
0 helpful votes
September 17th, 2021

Your article on Ivermectin is BS, when your ready to write an honest article, please contact me, the results are impossible to dismiss

Thumbnail of user lionelk14
3 reviews
61 helpful votes
May 28th, 2020

I read Forbes more than I would like to because they often cover topics of interest for me, namely regarding the stock market.
But they provide factually false information and as "investing experts" they know that they're providing false information.
For instance, they constatly trash Roth IRAs versus traditional IRAs because "paying taxes beforehand will make you earn less compared to someone whom only pay taxes afterwards whom have a big headstart". It may be counter intuitive but it's entirely false. Let me prove it to you. Let's say taxes are 15%, you invest $1000 and will double your gain over time.
By paying taxes beforehand, you only invest $850 after taxes, which will double, so that's $1700.
If you pay taxes later, you invest $1000 and it doubles afterwards so that's $2000. Now you take off 15% taxes so that's $300 off, leaving you $1700.
As you can see with this example, Forbes tends to push false narratives that can be mathematically proven false. Is there a conflict of interest, is content sponsored to push a narrative, are the journalists letting their own beliefs take over what's actually true? I don't know but don't trust what they say.

Thumbnail of user lk137
1 review
3 helpful votes
June 20th, 2020

I've read reviews sayimg this magazine lacks honesty. My complaint is of a different nature. The article that I take umbrage with was written about the made up "Top Ten Reasons People Use not to Wear a Mask." They were all relatively silly, trying to give the impression that the persons were being friolous. None of this "top ten" included a very valid reason for not waring a mask, wbich is heart or lung disease. It would be nice if the article hadn't been so biased that they couldn't even come up with one reason that is valid. I'm disgusted with this magazine.

Thumbnail of user davisv11
5 reviews
3 helpful votes
April 19th, 2020

So many ads that I can't even read the article. It had one on the top that moved constantly and 2 on the bottom that you couldn't even click away. Such a shame.

Thumbnail of user cats39
1 review
3 helpful votes
May 7th, 2019

As a non communist, I'm not interested in reading political magazines that stand for communist dictatorship and oppression of people. This magazine clearly favours russian politics, why, I couldnt tell you. It wishes for people to have less freedom?

Thumbnail of user amyb548
1 review
4 helpful votes
October 13th, 2019

It's just a bunch of idiots writing their opinions... most of the articles are written as it's speaking for everyone. Seems like they get their "news" from social media. Do not waste your time with Forbes!

Thumbnail of user bm276
1 review
4 helpful votes
August 7th, 2019

I have spent five minutes trying to leave a review on Forbes for a hotel it keeps giving me its own crap how do I leave a review on Forbes for a hotel that is absolutely horrible do not go to the beach Lodge they will break in your room still your property call the police on you afterwards and have you arrested if you don't get sick from their food first

Thumbnail of user laurat28
26 reviews
134 helpful votes
May 1st, 2020

I am SO sick of sites that block you out completely with giant pop up that block the entire site unless you turn your adblock off. NO, I will NOT turn my adblock off, I will just go to another site that doesn't block me out completely for using adblock!

Thumbnail of user fkforbesi
1 review
2 helpful votes
January 7th, 2020

My review on this site: Forbes needs to be shut down full of lies horrible site with an horrible adblocker

Thumbnail of user yaroslavp4
1 review
5 helpful votes
January 22nd, 2019

Clearly biased toward certain social abd political groups. So if you are not part of those groups, you will find their content quite disturbing. Not the place to look for objectives analysis of situations.

Thumbnail of user pops4
1 review
1 helpful vote
March 16th, 2020

They said harambe bad, and disgraced this honest land. Harambeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Thumbnail of user gm200
1 review
4 helpful votes
January 9th, 2019

Forbes has become a blatant liberal Trump bashing fake news source. Zero substance. Propaganda. The American people deserve better. Distateful "journalism."

Thumbnail of user hoku
1 review
4 helpful votes
October 4th, 2019

Racist and discriminatory website, which hides itself in radical opinions. Don't seems to have qualified personel, since their data is very erroneous.

Thumbnail of user billyb100
1 review
9 helpful votes
January 25th, 2017

It has gotten to the point where every article I read lies somewhere between "fake news" and "complete joke." I have yet to read a Forbes news article with any substance. High schoolers in an introductory literature class could take the jobs of Forbes journalists, and I haven't seen any improvement in content at all over the past few months.

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