Seeking AlphaReviews 358

Watch out with this joke of a company!

I thought highly of them before I subscribed to their "Alpha Picks" subscription service for 6 months ($499.19) on 10 Dec 2024

Next day or two, I decided to end the subscription... but could not get a refund. Fair enough, that is their 'policy.'

BUT here is the issue.

This expensive service was supposed to last for 6 months. It lasted for 2 days.

A little over two months after my subscription purchase on 10 Dec 2024, I do not have access to the "Alpha Picks" service and neither will these people give me a refund.

Someone from Seeking Alpha called Soham Chowdhury kept emailing me, playing the fool and not offering either the "Alpha Picks" OR the refund, with a whole lot of pointless excuses.

If there are issues, they will keep your money and avoid talking to you... unless forced to by Chargeback or someone similar.

If you do not have a free account you have no access to any publications at all. So, I opened a free account and discovered that it is impossible to find accessible publications. Look at my photo #1 - it is a snap shot of the main page. 12 news of the right side look normal: no lock symbols or dollars signs indicating that it is a premium content. So, to write this review, I clicked on each of those - see my photo #2 as an illustration for the first attempt: the publication is for paying customers! Next 10 publications were in the same category. First and the only one, which was free, is #11. So mach for free content!
I think my chances to get a success would be much higher if I go to Casino... or to other financial/investment website.
I am a regular guy who wanted to read some news.
However, i never seen such a disrespectful approach to readers, hence, do not recommend this site.

There's no reason to pay for any premium services from either Seeking Alpha or any of it's subscriber services. The data for premium members is easily accessed from other free sites. Much of the "economic analysis" from the company is highly biased. The feature writers are all over the map - most of them are unqualified people trying to get clicks for fees. The collective wisdom of the "analysts" are no better than the flip of a coin. Some of the analysts are painfully ill-informed.
The Point: Seeking Alpha is merely a social media company promoting the status quo. Their censors are merciless and heavily biased to whatever the prevailing mainstream media agenda may be at the moment. If MSNBC had a financial site, it would be a lot like this. Regardless of your view of politics or culture, that would, in my view, make Seeking Alpha an awful choice for financial information.

I tried a promotional subscription from Seeking Alpha and I was unknowingly renewed at their ridiculous rate of 236.00 $. It took me three phone calls and a week and a half to talk to a manager, only to be denied any kind of a refund. These people are all about the money, beware.

Had an inital rate for $50. They renewed one year on Dec 12 for $250.00. After contacting them and the credit card company 12 hours after I saw the renewal, To bad for me. I am stuck with a one year subcription I did not want. Capital One credit card would not help me. I am very diasppointed in Capital One as well as the preditors at Seeking Alpha that took the time to send 60 pages of "proof" to Capital One to make sure they could keep my money. This is a lesson for all credit credit card holders... Don't give your credit card info out to any company where there is automatic renewal. I was a way on a trip and missed the deadline. Don't let this "Gotcha" happen to you. Terribly unfair to the consumer.

They charged me year after I canceled services automaticly. Currently having dispute,
I would recomend never to have business with this company.

My main complaint is that customer service does not email you to advise that your free 2 week subscription is up and that your credit card will be charged if you do not cancel. I complained about the fact that a charge was made for a servce I did not want and didn't even know I had subcribed to. I was told that they do not issue refunds afer the charge was made. I rang them on the 26th. Customer service said they would issue a refund provided I took a two year subscription at their special rate. This I did and my credit card was charged on the 26th. There was a refund issued on the 6th of December but since I did not call them until the 26th to complain I did not know how the refund could be issued dated the 3rd when I did not ring them until the 26th. I needed a clarification and the agent said I did not ring on the 26th about the matter of the refund and that he would deny that any such conversation happened. He would not answer my question and hung up on me. I have completely lost trust in Seeking Alpha and can only advise that you be vigilant with subscriptions and do not allow automatic renewal in your paypal account.

They said nvda was overvalued when it was under $200, look what happen now. Now they removed all related articles. This joker still keep sending hundreds emails to me.

I signed up for a free trial and saw a charge come through for $2399 for the year. I immediately got on the phone and cancelled my service and absolutely was shocked they would do this. I was told it was cancelled and would be refunded which they never did. Unfortunately I got busy and didn't follow up and they got me again the next year...I asked them if they could see that I had not logged in during that time frame and used their services which she said yes she could and I said please look youll see I have never logged in or used your services what so ever.
I have asked for a refund for the two years I never used and they will not do it. I have filed with my credit card, BBB, FTC and will be filing a suit in court if this is not resolved. You are a scam company and people should stay clear of any dealings with them. Truly the worst business I have ever encountered in 50 years!

Charged me for the entire year even though I cancelled my membership during the trial period, and they wouldn't give me a refund. Spoke to a $#*!head named Amad, he refused to let me speak to a manager about the issue. The customer service here sucks.

Overall a great site for anyone interested in the stock market - and equities in particular. Combines a wealth of statistical data into easily understood metrics allowing those not versed in financial statistics to determine the growth potential, value of, momentum of a given stock.

One great thing is the inclusion of OTC stocks (those 5 letter stocks ending in Y). It's hard to get any information beyond basic stats on many worthwhile international companies - Seeking Alpha has articles on most all of them - often several. That's another strength - the shear amount of neverending content.

And that's also the problem. Analysts vary from the self-trained retail investor to the hedge fund manager, with little distinction between them in terms of the importance of their ratings for stocks. This means you have to be wary of just one article - you never know how well the person is trained to discuss the stock and whether they likely have all relevant information to do so.

Super premium investment clubs are a rip-off as well.

Quant rating of TIO stock was 4.99 for months. It was the best rated stock for most of that time. When it dropped over 50% it remained the top rated stock of the entire market and their analyst kept pumping that people should buy the dip. Than it went down additional 60% after a report saying that the firm was a fraud. SA deleted its historic ratings of TIO so you cannot see what I am telling you here.
If their superstar stock (pumped as a "once in a generation" opportunity) turns out to be a fraud and they delete their historic rating of it to cover up than they are not a reliable or transparent service.

I made a subscription on 1st October of 2022. I paid 119.50 $. By the end of the year I decided not to continue it.
I canceled my subscription in December 2022, or at least I thought I canceled it!
Today, 28th of September 2023 they charged my Paypal with 239$, without any warning. Scam! I discovered in the account that the subscription was not in fact canceled. I canceled the automatic payments from Paypal and unsubscribed AGAIN, hopefully now for good.

10/10
If you need some great investing ideas, news or nice community, I really recommend this site.

Rip off. Auto-renewals are a scam into themselves. But rarely have a seen an auto renewal without the ability to cancel and get a pro-rated refunds. This is a sign of desperation and shady business practice.

Great work by Saroj Kumar Das at Seekingalpha.com customer support to get my issue resolved.
I really appreciate the response time and promptness of the action. Wishing seekingalpha.com and Saroj Kumar Das all the best!
Take care
Sundeep Chadha

I appreciate the well-organized, timely information about the dividend-producing stocks in my portfolio.