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Overview

TheStreet has a rating of 1.5 stars from 41 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers complaining about TheStreet most frequently mention credit card, and customer service problems. TheStreet ranks 60th among Stock Research sites.

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  • Value
    2
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  • Returns
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  • They rip you off with an "auto renewal" fee of $399.95 that they sneak onto your credit card.
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Top Positive Review

“Reasonable good experience”

Glenn M.
2/3/16

I used the service for a few years and found it informative. I never experienced any problems with the billing and once I decided to cancel the service, there was no problem. They were sorry to see me go, but none of the horror stories I read from others. Simply not a problem. I experienced anywhere from 14-23% returns for the few years using the service, while only 11% the year I went it alone. I have recently compared some of the other providers rates and am entertaining renewing my subscription at this time with "the street"

Top Critical Review

“Scam like levels trying to cancel my subscription”

Tomasz B.
10/31/22

It is 100% impossible to cancel your subscription. I have been redirected to different phone numbers, no help through customer support, unable to remove my credit card. This is insane that in 2022 a company will rip you off like this for outrageous amounts of money and make it as difficult to cancel. This proves that is a horrible product, because they do everything in your power to prevent you from quitting or changing your mind. Do not get sucked into this scam trap.

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Thumbnail of user tomaszb31
1 review
0 helpful votes
October 31st, 2022
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It is 100% impossible to cancel your subscription. I have been redirected to different phone numbers, no help through customer support, unable to remove my credit card. This is insane that in 2022 a company will rip you off like this for outrageous amounts of money and make it as difficult to cancel.

This proves that is a horrible product, because they do everything in your power to prevent you from quitting or changing your mind. Do not get sucked into this scam trap.

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Horrible

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Don't do it.

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Thumbnail of user reeceh23
1 review
7 helpful votes
March 5th, 2020

I tried the trial found it average and stupidly forgot to cancel so after 14 days the full years subscription came out. Stupidly this occurred for a second year. Biggest issue is it is not easy to unsubscribe, you have to physically call them up to unsubscribe. Working as geologist in central Asia I found they are only open office hours so with the time difference and poor mobile coverage this process has become difficult. Emailing does not work they do not respond to please cancel, so now I have to set a 12am alarm get up in the middle of the morning and hopefully have mobile reception to cancel a subscription... clearly this is all about the money when they make it so hard to unsubscribe

Thumbnail of user clayh145
1 review
0 helpful votes
October 2nd, 2023

Upon visiting the above article page. I found it difficult to read the article. Pop-over spam was so bad that reading the article was near impossible. As if the on-page adverts were not already bad enuff. It is likely that I will block this site from future visits.

Tip for consumers:
This is/was a less than positive review about reading an article about a warning from Amazon.
Imbedded and pop-over spam made it next to impossible to actually read said article. Making this site worthless, and unworthy of future visits!

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This review was not about a purchase.

Thumbnail of user larrys1626
1 review
2 helpful votes
August 31st, 2022

Nothing good actually terrible losing money on every position crammar is a joke out for his own money

Thumbnail of user alexs1151
1 review
3 helpful votes
June 24th, 2020

Email Customer Support non-responsive. Online contact form non-functional. Cancellation only by phone - even for the trial! Thus, pay for your cancellation while you wait in the queue.

Thumbnail of user jimc932
1 review
4 helpful votes
December 4th, 2020

I signed up for this service after receiving a promotional offer. Everything is an ad or an up sell. I called three times to cancel. I can't get a hold of anyone and forced to leave a message. I got one call back and when I said I wanted to cancel, they hung up on me. I emailed customer service and they said they can cancel anyone. How convenient for fraudster Jim. Who does business like this in this day and age? Only Jim Cramer. I called the next day and got right thru. They said no problem my card would not be charged. I thought that was a little too easy so I asked how I can confirm. They said not a problem, they would send an email confirmation. My card was charged anyway. Now it's my word vs. fraudster Jim. I have all the phone records. I also emailed my complaint to customer service confirming what has occurred. Now I am disputing the charge with my credit card company. Avoid the hassle. No one should do business like this.

Thumbnail of user johna1925
1 review
8 helpful votes
February 20th, 2020

Cramer is all blab, his stock picks are a loosing investment, do not buy into this guys portfolios. He needs a education on how to pick stocks... blab, blab, blab I surprised they even let him on the exchange floor.

Thumbnail of user annm1354
1 review
3 helpful votes
March 11th, 2021

My credit card was charged for 900 after cancelation 2 17 on March 9. Never received credit for charges

Tip for consumers:
I called a second time. I will be getting a refund

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Thumbnail of user bjb34
1 review
5 helpful votes
November 30th, 2020

Customer service always say 10 people are a head of you, if if you wait on the phone 30 mins. Worst customer service I have seen, Stay away

Thumbnail of user vincentl224
1 review
4 helpful votes
September 6th, 2021

Paid $35.40 per share. It's currently at@6.90. His comments, if it goes down, Don't Join my Club.

I won't

Thumbnail of user stevec177
2 reviews
13 helpful votes
July 9th, 2019

If you want to sit through boring video ads, this is the place to go. Imagine paying over $300 a year and still be blasted with advertising every where to go, this web site is worst than Huffing Post. Tabloid stuff. Go ahead and give them your money so you can watch the same ads over and over and over again. 30 sec. Ads to watch someone give their opinion on a stock or event. Stupid. I would never join again.

Thumbnail of user robertk649
1 review
12 helpful votes
March 19th, 2019

I have been charged $409 for a renewal when I haven't used the site in months. Shows up on my credit card. Go try and cancel! They put you on hold, transfer you around from one operator or another, its really obnoxious. As a practicing attorney my time is valuable. And I am loosing money being here. In the end, I found that my own research and selections out performed what was contained in the materials. Do not get drawn into this rabbit hole and scam.

Thumbnail of user kannans4
1 review
5 helpful votes
May 6th, 2020

I joined AAP club as starter and wanted to gain knowledge of investing. Being a paid member for more than 1.5 year, finally I ended up losing money based on their advice. Once I was in big profit's like SHOP, TWLO, TSLA, CVS etc. were recommended to sell and recommended to buy companies like Viacom, Kohls, GE, SLB, Tyson etc. On an average I lost money after subscribing them. IMO, Jim cramer doesn't have time to invest in research about the companies growth potential and that made him to recommend poor companies. I would say stay away from thestreet.com. Absolutely, no market insights you will get it. All you get is update after the market, so who need what happened to the market when everyone knows what happened?

Contacting support is very difficult, as everyone mentioned I had a problem with billing too. I got an add/offer for quarterly payment. But while billing second quarter they charged for the whole year. I had to ask them to go with quarterly billing, it was a nightmare to get support from them. Finally, I decided to unsubscribe. There is no easy button to unsubscribe but it is possible.

Thumbnail of user robbied18
2 reviews
8 helpful votes
October 21st, 2019

Their is no free trial, Adds drive you nuts. The idea of paying for a service is so you don't have to look at any adds. I am amazed JIm Cramer is ok with this. And the trade suggestions have lots me a ton of money so far.

Thumbnail of user fredg101
11 reviews
73 helpful votes
May 29th, 2018

Another site that is plagued with ads and they try to make Jim Cranmer look like a God. His investment record is terrible, if you had listened to all his calls you would have lost a fortune. How he is still on CNBC boggles the mind but then again CNBC is a joke

Thumbnail of user samd262
1 review
9 helpful votes
May 6th, 2019

I signed up for the 14 day trail and was changed right away, when I went to cancel with in the 14 day trail I was charged a prorated amount... so there is not 14 day trail what a rip off!

Thumbnail of user vicm17
1 review
18 helpful votes
July 21st, 2018

TheStreet.com ActionAlertsPlus offers a free 14 day trial for new members. However, deep within their website, you find that to cancel the trial, you have to call and wait to speak to someone. This is inconvenient enough, however, it is actually getting the trial cancelled that is the real issue. I called and spoke to three separate people, each who confirmed that my free trial was cancelled and that my card would not be charged. I asked them to send me a confirmation email, which they agreed they would, but then never sent one. I logged into my account and at least confirmed that it was set to "Not to renew" with a charge of $0.00 - I even took a screenshot and sent a time-stamped email to myself confirming this. However, three weeks later, my credit charged is charged $59.95, the monthly subscription fee. I logged back into my account, and someone had changed from "Not to Renew" to "Premium". This seems like outright fraud and a scam to me.

Thumbnail of user nanetteb2
1 review
9 helpful votes
March 2nd, 2016

I am an Investment Advisor, I decided to subscribe to the Dividend Investor subscription. Web site is very disappointing. The real estate on the site is more devoted to making additional purchases than information relating to the subscription. The videos that start playing are very annoying. I think Cramer has some intellect but I cannot stand watching him on TV or on this site. He is addicted to himself and it shows. Just like Trump! Lol

Thumbnail of user annc69
1 review
7 helpful votes
July 10th, 2016

I read one article in particular where an entire firm got bashed for a few bad brokers. Very unprofessional and written like a child having a temper tantrum. Would never go to site again for any news about Wall Street or finance

Thumbnail of user barryt46
9 reviews
65 helpful votes
July 7th, 2018

Full of ads total waste of time. Its like a minefield of ads for services that are useless at best. IYou are better of with yahoo finance that's how bad this site is

Thumbnail of user mobif
1 review
7 helpful votes
June 27th, 2019

Totally agree on other comments. One finally has to block the credit card and get a new one... frustrating.
I have back tested their UPGRADES and DOWNGRADES of individual stocks from January 4th YTD (June 27) on https://www.thestreet.com/author/*******/thestreet-quant-ratings/all.html?page=11.
Interestingly, more than half (!) of their Quant Ratings and recommendations would have made me lose 40 to 50% of the invested capital. Sometimes upgrades occur on peak (!) stock value... losing money right away, and downgrades occur on bottoms... making you miss the rally.
This looks like some serious and precise insider job here... for the biggies. TheStreet Quant Ratings and TheStreet recommendations both on CNBC and online result often a significant loss. My own research is traditional and keeps me in a comfortable profit zone.

Thumbnail of user michaeld112
3 reviews
17 helpful votes
January 5th, 2015

The Street.com is the worst investment subscription I ever had. I tried to cancel the subscription and they don't want to cancel it.So, for more than a month now we keep trying via the credit card to cancel the subscription and The Street.com keeps charging again even after they sent me an e-mail saying that they feel sorry that I don't want to renew the subscription. Shame on you TheStreet.com for being so rude.

Thumbnail of user nans3
1 review
12 helpful votes
March 25th, 2014

I signed up for a free trial. Never again! I got blasted with dozens of hyped-up emails. When I finally found the privacy settings, I discovered that they are automatically checked to allow email, phone calls and regular mail for about 10 different services. Plus they sell/share your name and info with advertisers. I have no idea whether their advice is any good--rather doubt it actually--what they are is an advertising/spam tool on steroids.

Thumbnail of user jamesh135
1 review
13 helpful votes
September 16th, 2014

I signed up for $49.95 per year. The information provided wasn't worth much, so I quit opening the emails. They said one of those emails was my chance to opt-out and since I called (when I saw the $199.95 charge) a week or two after "the deadline". Apparently, I inadvertently checked a renewal box. I disputed this to AMEX, who after "investigation", said they sided with the merchant. Jim Cramer claims to be so right-minded on TV, but he is complicitous in this scam.

Thumbnail of user stephend70
1 review
5 helpful votes
April 4th, 2017

I agree with Bestsy C. Two weeks ago they auto renewed my real money pro subscription and my trifecta stocks subscription. Two weeks later they cancel part of the real money pro and put trifecta in its place - so they are charging me twice for the same thing. I called by phone and they hung up on me for heavy volume and said to go to the FAQ site. Contacted them by the site and they replied that I had to call. I finally got them on the phone and was told I cannot get a refund for the Trifecta subscription. Now I have to speak to a supervisor between 9-5 to change my account. In addition, you cannot remove your credit card info online either,

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