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Overview

BusinessInsider has a rating of 1.3 stars from 51 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. BusinessInsider ranks 498th among News Other sites.

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    10
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    9
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    5
  • Returns
    6
  • Quality
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Top Positive Review

“Best of The Best”

ClarkKent K.
8/8/16

This is by far the utmost best business, personal development, information, and news site since the invention of the WorldWideWeb. I don't know where I'd be if I never stumbled upon BusinessInsider

Top Critical Review

“Impossible to cancel payment from account profile”

kaikai J.
4/5/22

Don't bother subscribing or worse buying their subscription, you won't be able to Cancel your subscription via the account profile the button doesn't work, the unscribing newsletter doesn't work either. I had to cancel authorization payment via Paypal to make sure that i won't be charged again. Many red flags that should just show any customers how this business is just on cash grab any legit subscription Newspaper allow any user to cancel their subscription without hassle in few clicks... The so called 4- 'Choose 'Don't bill me again' Button doesn't exist... maybe they will re-implement them after my review to show people that i was lying or creating BS...-5 Stars...

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Thumbnail of user kaikaij
1 review
1 helpful vote
April 5th, 2022

Don't bother subscribing or worse buying their subscription, you won't be able to Cancel your subscription via the account profile the button doesn't work, the unscribing newsletter doesn't work either. I had to cancel authorization payment via Paypal to make sure that i won't be charged again. Many red flags that should just show any customers how this business is just on cash grab any legit subscription Newspaper allow any user to cancel their subscription without hassle in few clicks... The so called
4- 'Choose 'Don't bill me again' Button doesn't exist... maybe they will re-implement them after my review to show people that i was lying or creating BS...-5 Stars...

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That Cancel Billing wasn't possible via the Profile Account settings....Edit payment is not possible l mean you can't just delete the Payment you used previously via Website... Luckily i used Paypal so i could cancel payment via Paypal but i can imagine the troublesome step that would occur to customers paying with Credit Card...

Thumbnail of user johanb41
1 review
10 helpful votes
March 14th, 2020

To have the stomach to charge what they do for their "reports" that is nothing less than quotes from other articles is a scam. Should be closed down. Utterly useless the Banking as a Service "Report" would be a laugh if it wasn't for the $ 495. On top they can't/will not provide a receipt for the transaction. Suggestion for all within EU, buy by CC, return within 14 days, if no refund then make a charge back. They are praying on professionals looking for intel and easy to bury the purchase in order to not look like a fool.

Thumbnail of user tinah982
1 review
0 helpful votes
February 17th, 2023
Verified purchase

Content-wise, the quality is marginal, and you'd be better off subscribing to other publications. (Try ProPublica or local independent sources like Block Club Chicago or Voice of San Diego.)

The real issue is that you sign up for 2 years. In that 2 years, you'll forget you're subscribed. They will not send you an email about your impending auto-renewal. When you get smashed with a $179 charge, and try to cancel, they will only let you cancel *future* subscriptions and tell you your current subscription is ongoing.

If you email them, they point you to a FAQ that says the same thing -- you're stuck for the next 2 years.

The only way to cancel your current subscription is to dispute the charge through your credit card company.

This is a $#*!ty way to do business. Extorting and strong-arming people is not ethical. Also, they should at least send an email about impending renewals. But in general, forcing people to use your product does not say much for the product.

The reason the subscription period is 2 years is now apparent -- so you'll forget about it. It's scammy and scummy.

Tip for consumers:
It's a scam.

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Thumbnail of user jakew221
1 review
12 helpful votes
November 11th, 2021

This is the worst company I have ever seen. They are full of lies. Seriously, get out while you can.

Tip for consumers:
Don’t.

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Thumbnail of user clarkkentk
151 reviews
2,516 helpful votes
August 8th, 2016

This is by far the utmost best business, personal development, information, and news site since the invention of the WorldWideWeb. I don't know where I'd be if I never stumbled upon BusinessInsider

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Thumbnail of user stevey136
1 review
21 helpful votes
July 21st, 2020

Very bad content. Geared towards idiots. They have headlines that grab your attention. The content itself is a joke.

Thumbnail of user georgem1868
1 review
11 helpful votes
November 8th, 2021

Just an absolute disgrace to journalism. Unethical practices that create a horrible narrative for all journalists in the world.

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Thumbnail of user thomasg1437
3 reviews
5 helpful votes
November 23rd, 2021

Yep, you read that right, and no, I'm not exaggerating, and that's only from known trackers, imagine how many more backdoor deals with your info are taking place!
There is an image attached of how many KNOWN trackers were caught, I was there for less than a minute!

Tip for consumers:
Avoid this website at all costs unless you want your data stolen!

Thumbnail of user alphedai
1 review
3 helpful votes
April 15th, 2016

This website talk about different ideas, for example about money, how to get rich, Plan for retirement and if you are an employee, the website will give you an information to be the best employee that you can be.Its very wholesome, very imformative, and I think can help us a lot to become a better person and could help us to improve more if we would try to apply their advice and the knowledge and information being written on this site. Excellent!

Thumbnail of user zaakv
1 review
12 helpful votes
August 23rd, 2021

To view any of their articles you need to create an account and put a card on file.

After a certain point they just lock the content and there is no way to view anything without being forced to make an account. It's ridiculous at this point.

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Thumbnail of user kevinb7
36 reviews
206 helpful votes
January 11th, 2011

Well found this site while on the hunt for articles or interviews involving Mark Zuckerberg. I think for me the reading environment is important the site has a vent i think it's busy but didn't feel cluttered my eye wasn't being pulled away so an enjoyable read, some pages lag on the load as there's a lot of video but overall great content easy to nav and yeah so for the latest scoop on Silicon Valley/Alley check it out. Thanks for reading.

Thumbnail of user dann259
1 review
14 helpful votes
May 23rd, 2020

What is this? 2013? Most sites have realized that by not allowing AdBlockers you're just driving away the user! Maybe if I could read the article with my AdBlocker i'd send it to my dad as financial advice. He doesn't have AdBlocker. The free market will play out and websites like these will naturally be overtaken by the less greedy.

Thumbnail of user dougl315
1 review
20 helpful votes
January 16th, 2021

They are nothing but a politically biased information site. Even the reviews I read seamed only to satisfy their advertisers not really giving any helpful information.

Thumbnail of user reneet141
7 reviews
45 helpful votes
February 6th, 2021

Funny how so called news media reports things and don't know the facts. I seen an article and know it's not true. Someone will be in touch.

Thumbnail of user sallys407
1 review
23 helpful votes
December 15th, 2020

This is not a credible news site. There is nothing in this "news site" that is news. It is all propaganda. Sorry to see that there are a few sheeple that are not savvy enough to discern what is truth and what are lies. Find the truth out for yourself. In the age of technology you can research and find the source of all stories without relying on someone to mislead you.

Thumbnail of user ericap273
1 review
8 helpful votes
November 7th, 2021

Business Insider calls itself "journalism". However, it appears they are actually hack activists. How bottom of the barrel do you have to be to work there?

Thumbnail of user mikialo
1 review
15 helpful votes
April 19th, 2021

Ya, not only do they make racist comments, but they are hypocrits and they practice Bigotry talease once a day... say thing today and change the story tomorrow... we need to just stop giving them our buisness... and election fraud was NEVER DEBUNKED like they say it was. Constantly lying... its pathetic

Thumbnail of user giop4
1 review
10 helpful votes
February 14th, 2021

First off for a business publication they cover very little business but when they do just like in their political hit jobs there facts are either opinions or just wrong. The absolute worst publication available. Not news but bad opinions instead.

Tip for consumers:
They claim to use facts but their facts are incorrect almost all the time. Not real journalism

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Thumbnail of user makenaj
15 reviews
64 helpful votes
September 28th, 2020

Business Insider is extremely left wing radical biased. I wish they'd stop sending me notifications. When coronavirus deaths hit 1 million tonight, they released an article about it stating all doom and gloom just like the rest of the media. I looked up 1 million, which is only. *******% of the entire human population. That is nothing to worry about at all, and the media leaves out that the vast majority of the deaths from the panic are those who are aether 80+ years old or have pre existing conditions. And they use cases more than deaths to scare us. Back to Business Insider, though, not only do they fear monger, but they then rub salt in your wounds you may already have. I've never been loved, and they released an article I read through and cried even harder because it was a success story of a sugar baby marrying her sugar daddy and being super successful and rich from the experience. This must be an extremely rare occurrence, and I felt BI put it up there just to rub it on our faces that "Hey, this girl gets love while you don't!" I've had enough of this BS. Stay away from Business Insider.

Thumbnail of user carolc1486
2 reviews
10 helpful votes
April 26th, 2021

I was looking for a discount on a purchase and their website showed up in the search. Went to their site, everything looked good until I clicked on "get discount" and was re-directed to a unsafe site. I quickly backed out and then got a pop-up if the coupon worked. Not sure if their site was hacked or if this was a purposeful act.

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Thumbnail of user billg296
1 review
11 helpful votes
February 20th, 2020

They have a story about how high Vit B12 blood levels indicate a higher death rate and they go on to say that this shows that vitamin supplements are useless and dangerous.

So, I did a search, the NY times had a page on the same study and clearly stated that the participants of the study were not taking supplements and that the researchers did not know what caused the results of the study. The Bus Insider did not reveal this fact about the study and tried to blame supplements on the result which shows what kind of mis-information they deliberately provide.

Thumbnail of user alexn675
1 review
0 helpful votes
February 11th, 2023

What a disgrace for journalism. Most, if not all, of their articles are untrustworthy. They use big head lines to fool you to pay for subscription. I am not an idiot to believe in those stories. They make you pay for reading their make up stories. Double scam.

Thumbnail of user drewb136
1 review
5 helpful votes
November 6th, 2021

They're content is horrible and they charge a fee to read. They make up lies about people to get clicks!

Thumbnail of user emilias35
1 review
4 helpful votes
December 9th, 2021

This site is not informative. It writes what you want to hear: gossip. I am younger than 15 and even after one look I could tell that this site is lying to you. It is so obvious that I don't know why people give it better than a two star rating. For example, in the article 10 Vices That Are Actually Good For You, it states that smoking marijuana is good for you because according the the American Journal of Medicine, 16 percent of people who smoke have lower fasting insulin levels and smaller waist circumferences. However, it "forgets" to mention that a more recent study by the American Journal of Medicine showed that people who smoke marijuana have higher odds of stroke and myocardial infarction or coronary artery disease, with a possible role in premature cardiovascular disease. Also people who smoke marijuana have changes in brain maturation and intellectual function, including decreases in intelligence quotient.
In conclusion, please don't read the BusinessInsider.

Thumbnail of user ryank512
1 review
16 helpful votes
November 12th, 2020

"BUSINESS" Insider doesn't seem to have much to do with business anymore. Has been handed over the the leftist media "journalists"... many US based current events are written by foreigners with their own narrative.

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