Agora Financial

Originally subscribed to WWA for $2,000 with guarantee of 20 doubles in first year or second year free and 30 day trial provision . After some delays I received confirmation with notice that I had been awarded the second year implicitly as a bonus.

I didn’t notice that with that bonus the 30 day trial had been omitted. Three weeks later I inquired whether the trial period could be extended another month to give us both a chance to generate satisfaction. I was then told there was no trial period at all. They said unless I could show them where a trial was specified they would not honor that claim.

I went back and tried to find references to that original offer but Agora had effectively scrubbed the online history to only contain later versions of the 50 minute video presentation that does not mention any trial. Email and phone discourse has been equally defiant. They also added $160 to my $2,000 charge for sales tax! Has anyone ever paid sales tax on a subscription?

I haven’t tried to verify that they even paid that to some government. After that dishonest treatment, I have actively followed all Alan Knuckman’s weekly recommendations with a modest $500 investment. He advises to sell early half of an investment when there is a modest gain, so any doubles that occur will only be on 1/2 the initial investment. In 3 months there have only been 2 that barely occurred, doing am currently suffering a $4,xxx loss in addition to the original fee.

I feel like a fool for believing the exaggerated and seemingly fraudulent claims of the promotion. In addition, Alan often claims his entry price is lower than what I (and probably all other subscribers) can achieve so his performance is more noteworthy. I have written him about these distortions but Agora always says SEC regulations prevent them from answering specific questions about my issues. And recently the feedback address of AskAlan@***.com has been disconnected so they are not allowing any feedback.

Trying to contact Agora about the WWA service yields fruitless results. I finally asked the Agora customer service who I could write to with these concerns and after some delay was given a name but in writing to that person I never get any reply. After several years of dealing with financial advisory services, Agora seems to have the most promising and convincing promotions, but the worst performing services. Now they are taking this approach of offering no trials and guaranteeing results by extending a damaging and fraudulent period of the same service.

A worthless, no cost to them provision to make things even worse. They have just completed a new merchandizing scheme called 42 Day Retirement Window where they guarantee (sic) you can turn a modest $1,000 investment $420,020 in 42 days for the $2,000 fee. Same guarantee and up front about the no refund based on the incredible claim that this is such a good deal that they can’t afford to offer the trial period. I say incredible because if it is so good they could easily offer that deal because no one would exercise that provision.

I am glad to find someplace to vent these concerns on public to see if these aren’t common concerns and get ideas on how to overcome such greedy presumptuous business practices. How can this feedback venue be made more visible.

They advertise by youtube as another method, but they also trick you into subscribing to them and they make sure to guilt-trip you and make you feel regretful about canceling them, which in my opinion:

there is nothing wrong about that, if they were truly legit, they wouldn't have subtly told a naive, autistic young adult that it wouldn't be in his best interest to refuse their offers.

They also put you on a timer and tell you that if you cancel their offer: "You won't find this opportunity again."

They make it sound like your future is nothing without them, which is absolute ***

When I heard that you can reload the page and nothing happens, that is all I need to know about them.

I don't give a flying *** about what the more popular reviews say about this not being a scam.

A scam in my opinion is over-hyping *** and toying with you and other people's emotions into giving away hard-earned cash.

I thought I was genuinely gonna make some more cash even if I had to sacrifice some to earn more.

But that was never true, and I should have told Dad and researched this beforehand.

But they made sure that I didn't think of doing so, and instead, telling me to make me act immediately and pressing the button, and without too many questions.

Whether their intentions are legit or not (not really.), nothing justifies manipulating innocents into doing things that they had no clue what they were getting themselves into.

I understand how investments work, but this crossed some lines.

I thought I was only gonna give away the intended amount, but NOT all of it.

Ray Blanco and Agora Financials, in my opinion, are financial vampires.

They are good at sucking everything you worked hard to earn, and that is all these cowards are ever good at.

Their emails giving you sympathetic stories and their promises that you'll be their top priority on their list? forget about it.

Agoda have charged me for a booking which was cancelled in February (with free cancellation). I have spent the last week sending numerous emails and several phone calls in order to resolve the issue.

However each communication is responded to by a different agent with me having to repeat over and over all the details but getting nowhere!. I'm therefore going round and round in circles but have got nowhere. Initially Agoda denied taking the money, then the excuse that my email address differs from my original one, now the latest one is that I had made TWO bookings for the same hotel, the same dates and strangely the same fee! They have now produced a second fictitious booking reference to back their claim.

Dealing with Agoda's Customer Service has been one of the most stressful experiences I've encountered.

I now feel beaten and demoralised by this experience and have to admit defeat. I had paid by credit card and have passed the matter over to them.

I would strongly urge against anybody using Agoda for online bookings.

From my dealings with their Customer Service they seem well practised in successfully evading dealing with unauthorised amounts charged until the customer is so ground down that they will give up. The stress caused from dealing with them is not worth it!

Oh boy where do I start? I signed up with Agora Financial Weekly Wealth Alert with Alan Knuckman in the middle of January of 2018 it cost me 2000.

for a one year. My first option trade was with AAPL which I lost all of 4,000. next was with FCX which again I lost my last 5,000. Please take this word of advice this company is a SCAM!

Once they have your money you will never hear from them again. I've tried calling, emailing them so many times with no reply. They suppose to have given me advice when to sell or hold or make my next move, but never heard from them again after this. This company is a scam and anyone that has made money with these people are probably related.

If I could give any advice it would be take your money throw it out the window and hope that a bird flies by and craps on it so you could sell it for fertilizer you would make more money this way than to be with Agora Financial! Dan Nelson

I bought a pricey subscription because they claimed they had superior stock suggestions. All I get are email commercials with absolutely ZERO stock names.

They NEVER tell you the names of the companies you should invest in. They only tell you that biotech will surge or marijuana is going to be hot this year.

They then tell you “for $1299 you can get our 200 page book explaining everything”...BUT I ALREADY PAID $500!...Avoid! THEY NEVER TELL YOU ANYTHING...they simple send you infomercials trying to get you to spend more...A LOT MORE!

In October 2017, less than 2 years ago, I paid Agora $3,000 for a lifetime subscription to Rickard's Gold Speculator, a weekly publication related to investing in small gold miners. I was pleased with it.

Recently, this newsletter was discontinued and Agora Financial unilaterally substituted another publication, Jim Rickard's Project Prophecy, often which appear to be pitches for yet other products sold by Agora and usually has little to do with gold or miners when an occasional recommendation is made.

Then, just "coincidentally", Agora's subsidiary Stansberry Research recently initiated what appears to be a quite identical gold mining stock service, Gold Stock Analyst with John Doody.

On August 27, 2019, I spoke to "John", a senior account specialist at Agora about this.

I inquired into whether there was a substitute publication available specifically for gold mining stocks but he indicated there wasn't.

When I inquired about getting switched into the Gold Stock Analyst service, he indicated that wasn't possible. When I inquired about a full or even partial refund of the $3,000, John said it wasn't refundable.

So, in less than 2 years, Agora discontinues a "lifetime" gold mining publication, has no substitute, won't provide a full or partial refund of a lifetime subscription to it, then initiates an almost identical gold stock advisory service service through it's sister publication Stansberry.

This type of behavior by a financial service is, in my opinion, highly unethical if not illegal.