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Do you sell email addresses or share them with partners?
No, never.
Once I've signed up for Seeking Alpha email alerts, can I easily unsubscribe?
Yes, there's a link at the bottom of every email that allows you to quickly unsubscribe.
Can I receive just the email alerts that interest me?
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You can sign up for email alerts by stock, sector or theme, and you'll only get
what you requested. Go to the email preferences page, uncheck 'All
Articles' and select the sectors and companies that interest you.
I signed up for email alerts, but I'm not getting them. Why?
To ensure that nobody receives emails who has not requested them, we send you a confirmation email when you sign up to which you must respond ("double opt-in"). If you can't find that email in your inbox, check your spam filter or trash. To ensure that Seeking Alpha email alerts are not caught in your spam filter in the future, add account@seekingalpha.com to your address book.
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Add account@seekingalpha.com to your address book. This tells your email program
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I followed the instructions above, but I still am not getting my email alerts.
What should I do?
Check with your ISP (or work) Help Desk and request that they add us to their email
"whitelist". That is a list of trusted senders who are not be blocked
at a higher level than you control. When making this request make sure to let
them know that you specifically requested email service from us and that we
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them our email address (Help[at]SeekingAlpha.com - replace [at] with @). We are always happy to answer any questions and assist
with the process. If your service is still not restored - drop us a note with as many details as possible and we'll be happy to dig deeper.
I normally receive daily email alerts just fine. Why didn’t it arrive yesterday/today/recently?
Occasionally there are glitches in our system, or email delivery is affected by factors
beyond our control. Please contact us if you do not receive email alerts for a few consecutive days and we will
investigate.
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If you have any problems, just send an email (from the email account from which you
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Can I suspend emails while I'm on vacation?
We don't yet offer the ability to temporarily postpone delivery of email (we're working on it!). In the meantime, you can remove your email alerts entirely and set them up again when you return, using the email management page.
I've forgotten my username and/or password. What can I do?
How do I reset my password?
You can reset or create a new password by clicking on the ‘Forgot Your Password’
link on the login screen. You'll be asked to enter your email address (which is also your Seeking Alpha username), and we'll then send you an email containing instructions about completing the process.
How can I change my email address?
Just go to the account preferences page and click the change button by the email field.
Then enter your new email address. You will then have to confirm your email
address by clicking a link in an email we'll send you. This prevents people
from maliciously signing others up for emails they do not want.
One of the headline links in my email alert is "dead". What happened?
The article was removed from Seeking Alpha after publication, probably because we discovered a problem with it. This
occurs very rarely.
Why am I receiving mail from Seeking Alpha?
Our email alerts only go to those who have specifically requested them (in fact, we require "double opt in", ie. an initial request followed by confirmation of an email sent to you). If you have forgotten making that request, surf around the site a bit... a look at our email management page will probably jar your memory!
What happens to comments I send by replying to my email alerts?
Comments and questions sent by email are never posted on our site. To post comments to
articles on the site, go to the article in question on the website and add your
comment at the bottom of the page.
Can I leave a comment anonymously?
Yes. Just choose a Pseudonym (false name or pen
name) when you enter your comment. You can also change your Name/Pseudonym in your account preferences page.
Why can't I read your articles on my handheld device?/The
only text I see in my email is "ONLY HTML ENABLED CLIENT".
Many Seeking Alpha subscribers read our articles daily on their BlackBerry, Treo or other
handheld device. The vast majority of these users have no trouble doing so;
however some units require configuration changes or may not be able to receive our
emails formatted as HTML. The best way to solve this problem is to check your
instruction manual or contact your service provider for more details. Our
emails are sent in HTML and plain text formats simultaneously as a multipart
MIME email, suitable for most email clients.
Why do my email alerts sometimes arrive late – after the market opens?
The popularity of our email alerts service and load on our email servers means that
on occasion, some subscribers receive emails in the afternoon or in extreme
cases, the following day. Sometimes email
delivery is affected by factors beyond our control. We are currently improving the
infrastructure so that the email alerts will arrive in the morning, before the
market opens.
How long will the articles be available online?
The links in your email alerts should work indefinitely. We only remove articles inform
the site under exceptional circumstances.
I used to receive articles like ‘Wall Street Breakfast’ by email upon publication. Is it possible to re-subscribe? We are currently phasing out full-text emails, including the Wall Street Breakfast. In the near future we will be enhancing our infrastructure and then be able to send out Wall Street Breakfast and some other new email alerts. In the meantime, the best way to stay really updated is to get a live feed of articles as they are published.
Are your quotes real time or delayed?
20 minutes delayed. The exchanges charge a high fee for real time quotes.
Can't find an answer to your question here?
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Thanks
The premarket snapshot is part of Wall Street Breakfast, becuase it includes summaries of breaking news stories. So if you want to unsubscribe, you need to unsubscribe from Wall Street Breakfast.
Gordon Strickland
El Paso, Texas
Please send a copy of one of your messages to contact-website[at]seekingalpha.com (with the "[at]" replaced with "@"). We'll troubleshoot further from there.
Thanks,
Jim
I've been receiving email alerts for about a week and none of the links work! Headers only. In frustration I also tried the unsubscribe link and that led no where as well.
Please advise.
Thanks
Thanks,
Damon
We've just added excerpts from the articles. Thank you for your feedback.
I can see feeds for individual stocks that are aggregating several authors, but an author feed is going a bit too far when the author already has one.
This is a crucial issue -- we DON'T publicize feeds by authors, precisely because of the issue you raised: if a reader wants to read everything by that author, best to get it directly from the author. Our feeds offer things that authors can't provide: feeds by sectors and individual stocks, for example.
I'm on ETF list already .
Thanks.
etf.seekingalpha.com/by/type/closed-end-...
Thanks,
GYP
There's a page for each author on Seeking Alpha containing biographical info, recent comments on their articles, and a list of all their articles. You can find it by clicking on the authors name at the bottom of articles where it says "Related: More articles by...", or by clicking on the authors name underneath the headline on the Seeking Alpha home page.
Sunni Baran
4smbaran@gmail.com
Some web-based email services were delaying the delivery of our emails, but we hope that's now solved. Full article emails are sent about 20 minutes after the article publication, and the daily headlines-only email goes out at about 8 am every morning.
I have been getting the emails for about a month but they stopped last week. My ISP is not stopping them and neither am I. Help
Pat
If you are not receiving email from us it is likely that the email was blocked as spam. Normally this can be remedied with two easy steps:
1. Check your spam box to see if our messages are there. If any are, there is normally a "not spam" button that can be clicked to teach your email program that you really do want to see content from us.
2. Add us (account@seekingalpha.com) to your address book. This tells your email program "I know this person" making it more likely that it will let our emails through to you.
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3. If #1 and #2 above do not work - check with your ISP (or work) Help Desk and request that they add us to their email "whitelist". That is a list of trusted senders that will not be blocked at a higher level than you can control. When making this request make sure to let them know that you specifically requested email service from us and that we have pledged to never spam or buy/sell email addresses. Also, feel free to pass them our email address (contact-website@seekingalpha.com) -- we are always happy to answer any questions and assist with the process.
Give those a try (and a little bit of time). If your service is not restored - drop us a note at contact-website@seekingalpha.com with as many details as possible and we'll be happy to dig deeper.
Thanks,
Pat
P.S. I *DID* just add "Wall Street Breakfast" to my subscription list, which I learned of from an answer to a previous email. Thanks & ALOHA!
We try to transmit our morning (daily summary) emails at a time that will make sure you don't miss out on some of our popular morning content (like the Wall Street Breakfast) while also getting to you at a time that allows you to really *use* it!
From what you describe in your comment, I suspect that there may be some sort of disconnect in our transmissions to you -- all of our daily summary emails are transmitted much earlier than it sounds like you're receiving. I'll contact you outside this thread about the emails so that we can troubleshoot without crowding things up more here.
As for your question regarding feeds: Yes, we do offer them and (as you've hinted) they do provide the quickest way to get updates. A list of our most popular feeds is available here.
If others are not familiar with rss feeds we have a very brief explanation of them on the bottom of this page. If you need more info, post a reply to this comment :)
advise/contact you that you have a BUG in your system!!!! Actually,
at least TWO: 1-- I can Not change from many emails per day to just
once daily; 2-- you do NOT make it easy to contact you.
We currently don't offer the ability to customize the delivery time of your morning mail... As you elude to above, we try to balance waiting for important content vs. getting emails out early - our formula works better for some people (and some news days) than for others.
We're always looking for feedback for ways to improve though and we'll look into the possibility of allowing this type of 'send time' customization.
One other option here is to subscribe to our content via an RSS feed. RSS is something that more and more people are being introduced to each day and is a really great way to get information from both Seeking Alpha and others (financial news and much more). There are many great (free) ways to utilize RSS - I recommend checking this page for MyYahoo: click hereand then checking out our signup page here. As with anything regarding our site - we're always available for more help at contact-website@seekingalpha.com
Thanks!
The full-content versions of our email alerts are only available in HTML format. If you don't want to (or can't) accept HTML formatted messages - you will receive a plain text message from us containing a link to our article online.
You might also consider monitoring our site with a feed reader (mentioned in my response to the previous question). If you are interested - our feeds are available here.
We do not remove our articles (except in very unusual circumstances) - the links contained in your "headlines-only" email should work indefinitely.
Thanks
Of course, if you encounter any trouble while resetting your email address - we're always available to help out at support-website@seekingalpha.com.
We send out email in two ways: immediately on delivery, or a once-daily alert before the market opens. We certainly don't make decisions about timing based on the perceived importance of the content!
Chuck Cramer
One question - I consistently receive the "Premarket Snapshot" at least two hours after the market opens. This is not true of the WS Breakfast mailing. Something seems wrong there.
Thanks,
paul
I recieve e-mails from your website which I think are great (hope you can help) Thank You
Neil
I recieve e-mails from your website which I think are great (hope you can help) Thank You
Neil
I subscribe to the Wall Street Breakfast email. I used to get this email at breakfast time. In the last three or so days, I receive it late in the afternoon--always after the markets are closed.
For example, today (Thursday, Aug 30), in the late afternoon (6:10 pm Pacific time), I received the Wall Street Breakfast summary of Wednesday, Aug 29, by email. It should have arrived this morning. The info is now stale.
It used to arrive in the morning...
Thank you,
Ruth
ON your email alerts sign up page, you mention the once-a-day mode, and you say "below," but there is nothing and nowhere to click below that would let one change the mode selection. Please fix this so that I can put myself back on alerts as they happen.
Love your service, didn't think it needed re-design, wish things were back to normal.
THanks
My other comment is that I am seeing some slowness on your site, the reponse time as I am scrolling down the page is pretty slow.
My question is with respect to "Wall Street Breakfast". Are there any plans to sending out the daily email alert that contains "WSB" before the markets open?
Clearly it would be more usefull.
Thank you
"Only HTML enabled client". Even when I allow HTML, I still see nothing else.
marian@glass-by-design.com
I've tried chaning my preferences online multiple times with no luck. I would, however, still like to get each article in a seperate email. Is this possible?
Thanks!
Annotated article summary from this weekend's Barron's. Receive all our Barron's summaries by signing up here:
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THX Tom
hlhill@bellsouth.net
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Please be so kind as to help me retrieve it. Thank you.
victordk@mail.com
I would like to receive WallStreet Breakfast before market hours and All Articles whenever it is sent. On the signup page it is either but not both, and a new sghnup erases the old. Any suggestions?
On my email alerts page the My Tags list does not correspond to the the bottom table which lists the alerts I am receiving as they happen, and I am not receiving alerts for the names in the My Tags list that are not in the lower table.
Then, I can't seem to get to my account. I used the forgotten password form but nothing has been sent to my mailbox. So I'm stuck.
p.
Also, at several locations, including right here, the Submit button doesn't work. I'm now trying a resend using IE7 rather than FF.
p.
Presently, I find it annoying and difficult to cull through for instance the email elert section of "Energy" and have to try to pick out the opinions and articles amongst all of the energy transcipts. Just keep all of the transcripts in one place. What are your thoughts?
Presently, I find it annoying and difficult to cull through for instance the email elert section of "Energy" and have to try to pick out the opinions and articles amongst all of the energy transcipts. Just keep all of the transcripts in one place. What are your thoughts?
(I would also like to get alerts about stock news on stocks I have chosen as soon as they come out.)
Thank you!
Paul Bernard
Thanks!
Thank you.
I've been receiving email alerts for about a week and the links do not work. Headers only. In fact, in frustration I tried the unsubscribe link and that did not lead anywhere either.
Please advise.
You are subscribed to receive full text of articles, sent
immediately on publication, for the following tags:
FTEK, PBW, CPTC.OB, EPG
The problem is that I can't modify or edit these with either IE or Firefox. How do I edit these selections?
You are subscribed to receive full text of articles, sent
immediately on publication, for the following tags:
FTEK, PBW, CPTC.OB, EPG
The problem is that I can't modify or edit these with either IE or Firefox. How do I edit these selections?
Please help has I want to reduce the number of emails that I get.
thanks
It arrives in my email inbox sometimes by 9 am est, sometimes not till noon, but always ONE DAY LATE.
Is there any way to get more timely delivery?
Thanks
David
Having trouble managing my email subscriptions. No option to select fuill articles vs summary email on the setup page. Also when receiving full article it is not clear what newsletter it is associated with. If I unsubscribe from the email I don't know what else I am unsubscribing from. Be nice to have a newsletter tag. I guess you have updated the email handling as I could not add/change any subscriptions until I unsubscribed from all previous.
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