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To: SI Dave who wrote (2692)	1/14/2005 7:05:32 PM
From: Cisco	Respond to of 4895

The Value Line Select has been around for only about 5 years I think. Each month they look at a pool of around 1250 stocks with 400 from The Value Line Investment Survey and 400 from the Small & Mid-Cap Survey which have a Timeliness rank of 1 or 2. They add to these stocks 400 to 500 highly ranked stocks that are in the overall Value Line database, but not covered in the other two publications. From these they do additional qualitative research on the most promising companies and make a single stock buy recommendation each month. They provide a 15 to 20 page report on their pick of the month and send it out via Priority Mail. Of course it is also available online. They follow up with supplementary reports which have either a buy or hold recommendation. When they decide it is time to sell they notify you immediately by email or phone. Unlike the Investment Survey, which they claim is read by hundreds of thousands each week, the Value Select is limited to 5,000 subscriptions so as not to move the market on their recommendation. Ask me in a year and I will tell you how it has performed. I plan to buy the recommendation each month for a year and follow their recommendations and see how this group holds up compared to overall market. However, I may use TA for choosing a entry point.<g>

To: SI Dave who wrote (2692)	1/19/2005 12:21:39 PM
From: Gersh Avery	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4895

Hi Dave .. I'm slightly pissed off with SI. in '97 I paid $100 for a lifetime subscription. This was supposed to be full access to all features that SI had to offer. I then watched as the subscription I paid $100 for was repriced to 75 then to 50 then free. Then the free real time quotes were dropped off. (A feature that the staff, at the time, figured that I had paid for.) I figured that "This is SI .. I'm just here for the ride. I get everything that they offer, for that one price, so I won't bitch." Today I tried to do an advanced search and discovered that I no longer have access to all of SI features. This makes it (about) the sixth time that my subscription had its value lowered. In spite of what I was promised when I paid in my $100.00. I have now moved from an honored high end payer to a second class user here on SI. Is there any possibility that I will have my subscription canceled just to save SI costs? Don't you have a responsibility to provide me with every aspect of SI now? I think so. Please tell me what you think your responsibilities are to me. Do you think that it's only the exact services that existed at the time that I paid in? Or is it all services of SI that are currently available? Or is it only those services that your whims decide to make available? Exactly what is our agreement currently? Exactly what is the agreement that I paid for in '97? How did that change without my acceptence?