Instagram 'influencers' selling courses in personal finance and investing

[Bassmansam]

Lately i've been saying posts about signing up for courses in things like investing in the stock market or how to manage your personal finance and avoid debt, budgets ect.
For the stock market stuff isn't that information free to find on the interwebs? I don't know the price this person charges but they advertise it every few months and seemingly have enough people sign up to make it a goer.

The latter is confusing to me (pic below), its £50 if you sign up early or £90 after. You pay money for a course that tells you how to manage your money? lolwut.

Seems kinda shady. What does GD think?

 

[Bassmansam]

Shady how? They are just selling their advice about personal finance. I don't think this is illegal. However, giving financial advice about making investments can be illegal. Personally I don't pay for anyone's advice, particularly financial, and why would you, as everything is available on the internet if you look hard enough.

Maybe shady isn't the right word. I just find it bizarre that anyone would pay for the either course.

 

[Bassmansam]

Making online courses or ebooks is highly profitable, so that's why people try it. Many are legal, I don't see a problem with this one. However, some courses where you are paying for investment advice or being encouraged to make investments can easily cross the line into scams. Moral of the story, if something sounds too good to be true it is, do your own research, make your own decisions.

I mean i'm not adverse to online courses. I've done a few udemy courses on coding/data analysis.

Have you looked at the content of the second course? Thoughts?