Several false alerts from Yahoo! Alerts today. Must have caught that bug from the stock market last week!
Archive for the ‘Rants’ Category
What is with Yahoo! Alerts Today?
Thursday, May 13th, 2010
What Some Stock Newsletters Would Do Otherwise
Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
Does This Really Work?
Friday, June 5th, 2009As a result of being cheap and subscribing to lots of free investment info, I get more than my fair share of emails advertising to idiots. One of my a favorites (mentioned last week but received again this week) offers “free stock picks” for paying for a stock pick newsletter. Does that mean the free ones are good and the one you pay for are worthless, or vice versa?
Anyway, today’s junk mail was this offer for a special report of ten top picks. I would have bit, knowing full well it would increase the work of my spam filter. But then I noticed that they had eight links in the email to the same place to get the free report. Which tells me that they are either too dumb to hire a good web copy writer for their pitches or are only looking for people so dumb that they have to be shown eight times how to get something for free. I can understand two (top and bottom of the email), even three if it is a really long email. But eight links? Nah, that’s too many. I’ll pass.
If you want to get it anyway, those eight links point to http://www.newsletteradvisors.com. It actually came with a parameter, but that probably confirms my email address as a sucker, so I’m leaving it off.
The Duh Department
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009Read US income rise fails to ignite consumer spending in my outdated Blackberry last night.
Gee, no raises, just lowered taxes. When my income stays the same in an economy where I could lose my job or what little is left of my retirement savings in the blink of an eye, I’ll be using the “excess” to pay bills down and stash in my municipal money market.
And has it occurred to anyone that the government that is borrowing like crazy and canb enact a tax break mid year can also enact tax hikes right before the year ends, asking for it all back plus interest if the economy turns around or the lenders demand some repayment?