Update 12/16/21: Just a reminder to cancel if you don’t want to pay the renewal fee. Hat tip to Dutchified
Update 1/29/21: The portals have now added terms, “Offers cannot be combined/stacked with any other offer.” Motley Fool is also sending out a similar message to media outlets as well about how stacking will no longer be allowed. It’s not clear to me exactly how this will be enforced.
The Offer
No direct link, targeted offer
- Get a one-time $99 statement credit after using your enrolled eligible Card to make a single subscription-based purchase of $99+ online at The Motley Fool or at fool.com/amex by 5/8/2021.
The Fine Print
- The Motley Fool Terms and Conditions currently provide that unless you notify The Motley Fool that you want to cancel, or that you do not want to auto renew, your subscription or membership fee will automatically renew for another subscription period (subject to applicable law) of equal length (for example, monthly, or annually). This means that The Motley Fool will collect the then-applicable membership or subscription fee and any taxes by charging a credit card The Motley Fool has on record for you without notifying you, unless notification is required by applicable law.
Our Verdict
It says you need to use the fool.com/amex URL, so it might not be possible to stack with a portal. Portals are offering up to $80 back though and that would be pure profit if it does stack as memberships cost $99 (might be able to get slightly more by stacking with card linked offers as well). The reason I suspect it won’t be possible to stack is Motley Fool was a real pain to deal with when there was a similar profitable deal in the past. I’ll sit this one out. Regardless of what you do, remember to cancel otherwise you’ll be charged the full $99.
View more Amex offers here & if you have any questions abut American Express offers then read this post.
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Amex Offer: $50 off $99
Rakuten offering $40 or 4k MR, Swagbucks $60, AA 6.2k Miles
I’d do it for the cheap AA Miles that also count toward loyalty status. I’d advise to do on Mar 1 or after as that would count towards AA loyalty tier which resets in Feb end.
I noticed today on AA portal that instead of saying once per member, it now says once per year per member.
Similar but worse offer of spend $99 or more, get $50 back. You should still be able to make a profit from some cash back sites (don’t know of any right now)
I turned off auto renewal and it charged my any way.
Has anyone tried to stack after the new terms were added? Amex offer of $50 off $99. 7500 AA miles or 5400 SW miles or 7500 UR points (YMMV). Based on how much you value UR points, that alone could be enough to pull the trigger
Looks like they learned their lesson. This time you get $150 for spending $499+.
My subscription expires in March but I received my Swagbucks months ago and was able to cancel online today.
1. Sign into the fool.com website. You can use an OTP code to your email in case you don’t remember your password.
2. Go to My Fool > Account Settings
3. Under Subscription Services, turn off automatic renewal.
can’t login. I guess they heard we were all going to cancel and disabled it…like RObinhood disabled the buy button *angry*
Got an email from them about renewal. Had a link in there to turn off auto renewal
Yeah, thanks Motley Fool for the FVRR recommendation last year….. Return: -59.89%
Hmm, maybe I should have shorted MF’s recommendations instead of ignoring them.
rekted
Motley fool’s been great for me. Was FVRR the only recommendation you bought? It’s unfair to judge them by one recommendation when they’ve been super educational and throwing great stuff.
I’m not the original poster but FVRR was not the only recommendation I bought. All the other ones are also down. The only ones that’s up are stocks recommendations I found somewhere else, not on Fool.
MotleyFool pounded DOCU like there was no tomorrow. Guess what? DOCU is down 50%. There’s a sucker born every minute.
Time in the market beats timing the market. I looked at the recommendations and their price graphs and not all of them are down. Motley Fool makes recommendations with the assumption you buy and hold for a few years. Short term losses are absolutely possible, but it takes a few years before you can judge MF’s picks. Anyways, mindlessly following recommendations without understanding why is preparing to fail, although I suppose that is literally the appeal of Motley Fool.
Few Years passed, DOCU still knockdown, UPST knockout since 2021, even though other market’s positions had been recovered. I think that says about their “wise analysts” a lot. Advertising about 5-6 right picks quite silent about others wrong picks… Great to have choice of saying about thousands percent returns for right picks without mentioning any failures….