Every once in a while I get sucked in by an ad for a product with "insider knowledge", or great "money-saving secrets" or some such thing. Sometimes, if it has an ironclad moneyback guarantee I try it figuring I have nothing to lose. Hence, my subscription to Bottom Line Personal.

Offered with the magazine were two freebies. One was a Bottom Line Bag of Tricks booklet, the other was a book named The Best Revenge, Living As Well on Half The Income. As far as providing useful advice, these two books gave me a LOT of tips I could actually put to use, along with enough detail to get me going in the right direction (web addresses, publication names, phone numbers).

The actual magazine was a big disappointment. I was eager to read it and see what it could do for me. The advice was SO general and in such "tidbit" form it was practically useless. Lots of it didn't even apply to me in the first place as they were trying to cover so many different categories the majority were beyond my interests.

The best way I can describe my impression of the magazine is to say reading it is like sitting next to a yakky person on public transportation. One who takes up the whole ride rambling on about thing after thing after thing just to be talking to you. It would be REALLY boring except they don't talk about any one thing long enough, so there's always hope the NEW topic might be worth listening to.

I immediately called to cancel my subscription after receiving my first issue since it was not at all what I had thought it would be. I had not received the "Revenge" book yet and tried to unsubscribe soon enough to save them the expense. It still came many days later though and I have to say that that book has good enough stuff in it for me to have recouped the $39 subscription rate. Had I received it promptly I probably wouldn't have cancelled the first year just on principal.



Recommended: No

Trusts for Investment Advice: Sometimes