Trading & Investing review
Buy the Damn Stocks review
A 13-dollar joke book about the stock market. It is comedy about investing, not an investing product, and the sales page never quite says so.
Worth a look
Priced like a greeting card and written like one. Buy it as a gift for a trader with a sense of humour, never as an investing product.
- Price
- $13
- Billing
- One-time payment
- Best for
- A cheap gift for someone who trades and can laugh at it
- Not for
- Anyone who wants to learn how to invest
Buy the Damn Stocks at a glance
Buy the Damn Stocks is a sarcastic ebook about market chaos, sold for thirteen dollars through a Pagewheel funnel and emailed after purchase. The vendor is upfront in the meta description that this is humour you will want to share. The sales page is less careful: phrases like "feel smarter about market chaos" and "gaining fresh perspective" sit close enough to financial language that a distracted buyer could think they are buying education.
- Format
- Digital ebook, emailed after purchase
- Genre
- Humour and satire about the stock market
- Price
- $13 one time
- Checkout
- Pagewheel funnel with an optional email opt-in
- Educational value
- None claimed by the vendor
What is Buy the Damn Stocks?
A comedy ebook. The vendor's own description is "sarcastic stock market humor you're going to want to share", and the headline calls it a hilarious adult ebook that makes market madness manageable. That is the whole product, and there is nothing wrong with it as long as you know that going in.
We are listing it in the trading category because that is where buyers will look for it, not because it teaches trading. It teaches nothing. It is a joke about the thing the rest of this category sells.
What arrives after you pay?
A downloadable ebook, sent to the email address entered at checkout. The page describes it as a digital download and the confirmation copy says the ebook will be emailed to you.
The vendor does not publish a page count, a table of contents or a sample. For thirteen dollars that is a small risk, but it is still a purchase made without seeing anything.
Thirteen dollars for a joke book?
That is about the price of a paperback of humour, so the number itself is not unreasonable. The checkout is a Pagewheel form that showed a $0 total in our reading because the price populates once the form is completed, so confirm the total reads $13 before you submit payment details.
There is also a pre-ticked style newsletter opt-in labelled "I want the good stuff". Untick it if you do not want the follow-up sequence.
Who should buy it?
Someone shopping for a small gift for a friend who trades, or a trader who wants ten minutes of relief after a bad week. On those terms it delivers exactly what it advertises.
Do not buy it if
- You want to learn to invest. There is no education in it.
- You read the phrase "feel smarter about market chaos" as a promise of insight.
- You need to know the length before paying. No page count is published.
- You dislike marketing emails. Check the opt-in box state at checkout.
The one thing that bothers us
The framing. A page that sells jokes should say so above the fold, and this one leans on lines about feeling smarter and gaining perspective that borrow the vocabulary of financial education. Nothing here is false, and the meta description is honest, but the hierarchy of the page invites a misunderstanding that a clearer headline would prevent.
That is why the offer score is middling despite the low price. Thirteen dollars is not a risk. Buying it while thinking it is something else is the risk.
Pros and cons
What works
- Genuinely cheap at $13
- The vendor is honest in the meta description about it being humour
- Instant email delivery
- Works as a low-cost gift for a trading friend
What does not
- Contains no investing education of any kind
- Sales page language borrows the vocabulary of financial insight
- No page count, contents or sample published
- Newsletter opt-in sits inside the payment form
- No refund policy stated on the page
Buy the Damn Stocks FAQ
Will Buy the Damn Stocks teach me to invest?
No. It is a humour ebook. The vendor describes it as sarcastic stock market comedy, and it contains no strategy, analysis or education.
How much is it?
Thirteen US dollars as a one-time payment. The checkout form displayed a $0 total until the fields were completed, so confirm the total before submitting your card.
How is it delivered?
By email. The checkout states the ebook will be emailed to the address you provide.
How long is the book?
The vendor does not publish a page count, a table of contents or a preview, so you are buying it unseen.
Is there a refund policy?
None is stated on the sales page. The page shows a 100 percent satisfaction badge, which is marketing language rather than a defined refund window.
The bottom line
Priced like a greeting card and written like one. Buy it as a gift for a trader with a sense of humour, never as an investing product.