Empire Financial Research Reviews

Hey, was a "Lifetime" subscriber to Empire Financial Research for just a few years. Just received notice that Whitney Tilson is merging with Stansberry Research and I no longer have the "Lifetime" subscription or any of the previous subscriptions I enrolled in. I was informed I now have a credit with Stansbury Research. I am sure this will result in them simply asking for more money for a new subscription.

Recommend anyone looking at anything to do with Whitney Tilson ...... stay away.

I bought a lifetime service to all his newsletters, and it was totally worthless. If a subscriber examines all his newsletters' performance since 2020 until now, his best performing portfolios have roughly matched the S&P. So why should anyone pay anything for it instead of just buying an index?

And......his worst performing portfolios (mostly by Enrique) have just been disgusting. Some of the most promoted stocks have crashed more than those meme stocks that he regularly makes fun of. It's not worth paying several hundred to several thousand dollars for every year, in fact it should be worth a negative number...

Tilson does "teach" a lot of good stuff, like investing wisdom and ethics. But obviously, he doesn't practice what he preaches, again both in investing and ethics.

Yes most all the companies they recommend are doing terrible. I wonder if it’s a pump n dump scheme. They recommended the biotech stock DNA and I have already lost 45% of my investment since they announced it. It seems he releases a press release and the stock goes up in value then within a month or two it’s down at least 50% and sometimes 80%. I think it may be a bigger fraudulent scam than people think.

These people are doing what it takes to make money in UP or DOWN markets! SELLING JUNK NEWSLETTERS TO STUPID PEOPLE. I can't believe Igot sucked in for another TRIAL! ( "Because they said "You get it all back with a quick phone call if you are unhappy") I have seen no one happy except the writers of the letters.

Tried the $49/year newsletter. I did not consider the recommendations worth the $4.08 per month it cost. They were recommending already hot tech stocks (which are now seriously down). Bought 3 of Whitney’s recommendations. They are down 35%-55%.

Wasted an hour watching their Navallier/Tilson pitch. Googled Louie and found SEC fines his company for $30m for misrepresenting one of his products performance.

I have been with these jerks for just over a year. Not the least impressed with their service. Do NOT use these crooks!

Yes they will send you their monthly letter but really it is nothing more than a stupid ad to buy additional stuff.

95% of the emails you get are just more of the same crap. Apparently my subscription renewed last month and they will not cancel it with any type of a refund!

Better yet the incompetent moron you get on the phone is all you get. You can not speak to a supervisor. No matter how hard I pushed for a supervisor, no chance.

I purchased a lifetime subscription to Spac Investor which is a subscription offered under Empires umbrella. I had one good trade and the rest have been horrible and I have lost a lot of money. If you look at their portfolio, 98% of their picks are in the red by a LOT. I phoned to complain and see what they could do. Even a partial refund would have helped.

Customer service would not return my call. I called again and they offered me a free year of Spac Investor. I have a lifetime subscription and a free year of bad recommendations is no help.

I then emailed them and they do not respond. Stay away from them. I have big regrets with lots of money lost on their subscription and their stocks. They don't care about their customer or building a trustworthy company.

Bad news-they say it's a one time charge of $49 but they have been charging $49 a month and we just realized it (our fault for sure) but it's a bad scam. Stay away.

I called and wrote to them 3 times to cancel my subscription but they never did and never will and they never got back to me. Tilson is a scam who is making money on poor people's backs. I don't understand why they cannot be stopped from scamming people.

This is a scam. Subscribing gives this service the permission to send you Spam. Each and every day you will have to delete and waste your time looking for something of value.

Huge mistake to subscribe. Garbage and a total waste for time.

I signed up for empire stock investor with no intention of renewing my subscription at the end of the year. It was a cheap ($49) way, I thought, of finding out what the movers and shakers were doing in the USA during the pandemic.

So I tried to cancel my subscription by going to the Empire site and clicking on “contact.” This brought up a form to send to let them know. After I clicked “send” what appeared in my “sent” folder was the link to the site I just used.

So I thought I’d forward the message to myself but all I got again was the link to the “contact” site - no sign of my message. It appears that Whitney is making it really difficult to cancel a subscription.

I’ll have to try phoning or sending a registered letter - wonder if they’d refuse to accept it?

-George

I would say stay away from this shameless self promoting jackass Whitney Tilson. I got hooked into this on the recommendation of his boss Porter "the used car salesman" Stansberry. Someone else to stay away from.

Tilson's research is expensive and worthless. His team gives out little if any actionable advice and when the do it's hit or miss if it's worth anything. His newsletters are full of "look at me and how rich I am" BS.

When he isn't promoting himself he is promoting his progressive Marxist ideology. Funny, a rich SOB doesn't believe in free market capitalism.

I find it a financial scam. The information is not really value-adding and I tried to contact customer service to stop being charged and contacted the bank to stop the transaction. They lied and said I never contact them although I have even email proof.

Just stay away from it .

If I could give it no stars I would. I have been trying over and over to unsubscribe from all email communication, yet I continue to receive daily emails from EFR and Whitney Tilson. I have also been trying to cancel my subscription, and while it said I would be reimbursed for a portion of my subscription fee, that never happened and my account remains active.

Their website doesn’t provide any clear way to cancel, so they are clearly less concerned with providing a quality product or service, and more concerned with getting peoples enrollment fees. Stay away!

I find this service a total waste of my time. I have trial subscriptions to 2 other services that provide much more valuable information and the information is updated on an ongoing basis. Empire research is virtually static, with minimal recommendations, and they use it as a platform to sell, sell, sell other services.

Don't Waste Your Money!!