Agora Financial
Agora Financial Overview
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Agora Financial has 1.4 star rating based on 195 customer reviews. Consumers are mostly dissatisfied.
- Rating Distribution
Pros: Ripp off, Jims understanding of the economy, Receiving the information downloads.
Cons: Deceptive practices, Misleading advertising, Being scammed and made a fool of.Recent recommendations regarding this business are as follows: "don't believe in any single word that he says - it's all a scam", "Don't trust their advertisements, no in fact, don't trust any ads for that matter, no matter where it comes from, don't trust anyone online.", "Please do not use Agoda - it's not worth the stress!", "Run Run Run".
The aggregated data is based on reviews and questionnaires provided by PissedConsumer.com users.
Agora Financial has 1.4 star rating based on 195 customer reviews. Consumers are mostly dissatisfied.
- Rating Distribution
Pros: Ripp off, Jims understanding of the economy, Receiving the information downloads.
Cons: Deceptive practices, Misleading advertising, Being scammed and made a fool of.Recent recommendations regarding this business are as follows: "don't believe in any single word that he says - it's all a scam", "Don't trust their advertisements, no in fact, don't trust any ads for that matter, no matter where it comes from, don't trust anyone online.", "Please do not use Agoda - it's not worth the stress!", "Run Run Run".
Most users ask Agora Financial for the refund as a solution to their issues.
Consumers are not pleased with Reliability and Customer service. The price level of this organization is high according to consumer reviews.
Media from reviews
It's a scam
- Money loss
User's recommendation: don't believe in any single word that he says - it's all a scam
Agora financial weekly wealth alert fraud
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.
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Verified BuyerLying thieving cowards.
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.
- Claims of offers into teaching you investments amd tech stocks
- Information on 5g killer and huge technology stocks
- False charade of making you the number 1 priority
- False sympathetic stories that make you trust them
- Misleading and cancel subscription shaming
Preferred solution: Full refund
User's recommendation: Don't trust their advertisements, no in fact, don't trust any ads for that matter, no matter where it comes from, don't trust anyone online.
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Verified ReviewerScammed by Agoda
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!
- Theives
- Unauthorised charge
Preferred solution: Full refund
User's recommendation: Please do not use Agoda - it's not worth the stress!
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Verified ReviewerDeceptive Service
Attached is new screen shot where they require updated $$$$ membership that was included before.
- Ripp off
- Bate and switch
- Obvious intention to rip people off
Preferred solution: Full refund
User's recommendation: Run Run Run
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Verified ReviewerNot as described service.
Preferred solution: Full refund
Cancel my subscription
Agora Financial Weekly Wealth Alert
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
Lost money, time and self confidence with Ral Blanco ad Agora Financial
that was $7,000. not $7
- Fraud
- Lengthy hype videos
- Scammed and made fool of
Preferred solution: Full refund
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Verified ReviewerBeware
Preferred solution: Full refund
I cancelled but still got charged
- Sales video good
- Sales video
Preferred solution: Full refund
Beware: Tone-deaf marketing
Resolved: Agora Financial and all it's related companies should be shut down and the proprietors jailed with Bernie Madoff
After I made my comment here I emailed the same comments to Agora Financial. The next day I received an email from Agora canceling my account and telling me If I was due a refund it would be issued in the next 3 to 5 business days.
I started checking on the 4th and 5th day and saw nothing. Then around the 7th day I saw a credit to my card for the full amount. Now my one year anniversary is near, the time in which they said I would automatically be renewed. I am nervously waiting to see if they do or not.
They Better not. I still get several emails a week pitching something. Once I'm past this renewal worry I'll unsubscribe to all the nonsense. They're sending an email now about how Trump is going to magically revalue gold.
I did some searching on that and it turns out they've been pitching that for a long time now. They just keep pushing out the date its supposed to happen.
And of course you need to buy something from them to get in on the profit. Geeze!!
- Ripp off
- No stars
- Recommendations arrive after the fact anyone can predict that
- Do not disclose all requirements to purchase stock
Preferred solution: Full refund
Total scam
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!
"Lifetime" Subscriptions That Are Neither Lifetime Nor Refundable
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.
- Deceptive business practices
Preferred solution: Full refund
Resolved: SCAM (Former employee)
Hey everyone! Run away as fast as you can with this scamming company.
Immediately. This is coming from a FORMER employee. Now I have worked at Agora Financial for some time and let me tell you, they scam older people out of their money by telling LIES. IT IS ALL LIES.
ALL OF THEIR PUBLICATIONS WILL MAKE YOU LOSE MONEY. Do not believe their order forms. Most of the stuff you are promised, you will not receive. They force employees to lie to customers in order to gain revenue.
After reviewing the procedure at this company, I decided to run away fast. It is a scam. Please do not be fooled and please do not be tricked by these men.
Trust all of the bad reviews. This is just a post to let people know what is really going on.
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Thank you for this review. I came close to subscribing but decided to wait 48 hours before making a decision.
As their clock finished the 14 minute deadline, I did not respond. Within a half hour, I received 2 emails from Jim Rickards which was laced with all sorts of guilt tactics.
I was about to bite on his presentation. Thank you!
Have bought in to JR videos. So far only paid for cheapest subscription.
Have yet to see what this magical type of investment (in the market) is. No names of companies no buy guidance.
Have listened to his hysterical videos that sound so well grounded and researched but when he said that global warming is a fraud is when I understood he is a fraud. Anyone stupid enough to discount global warming is not worth my time - much less my money!
very helpful, thanks.
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I have a family member that has invested about $10,000 in the last month. I kept telling him it was a scam.
He wouldn't listen. He said it wasn't that much he invested. Well I found a statement and added it up! It was close to $10,000 and they actually sent him a nasty email today if he doesn't sign up for this additional newsletter he might as well take a hike.
This is after he spent all this money. That is when I went investigating.
I will be taking a lawsuit out and looking for others to join me. Please respond if you have been scammed as well by them.
Hello, This is Ian Hodgson. I am an investigative reporter at Columbia Journalism.
I would be interested in hearing more about your family member's experience and whether you have heard from any other individuals with similar stories. You can reach me at ijh2108@***.edu
My significant other has invested over $20,000 with this company. Hence is how I have been following and getting alerts when folks post.
I told him it was a scam and he wouldn't listen. His response is it is his money and we are not married. Well funny I don't see him watching their videos and doing these video trainings in weeks.
He has lost over $80,000 from his investment and what they suggested. I hope he learned his lesson.