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Eddie Hobbs

  • 20-02-2022 03:21PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,847 ✭✭✭take everything


    This guy is in the paper today.

    He loses 13 million on behalf of 800 investors in property in Detroit among other failures and he still has a Financial Practice.

    He's taken to thinking he knows better than the medical profession and politicians when it comes to Covid now saying there was zero scientific evidence for lockdown.

    I read the interview with him in the paper today and he comes across as deluded and just muddled in his thinking. He's done "a lot of things right on behalf of the Irish people" apparently. Tell that to the 800 investors above.

    Has this guy done anything good for anyone except himself?

    A serious dum-dum, God bless him.

    But with such lack of self-awareness and hard neck, he'll no doubt be successful with whatever his next take on things is.

    Can't keep a good dummy down.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,261 ✭✭✭Gant21


    A grade A tool.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,760 ✭✭✭Effects


    He's got it right this time. Instead of investing in houses in a crumbling Detroit, he's getting people to invest in the Irish housing market. Guaranteed returns from the government, who don't really want people owning their own homes, just paying returns to investors, foreign or domestic.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,885 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    Avoid his Twitter, where possible. He’s already banging on about “western media” and painting Russia as the real victims.

    This is after his, prolonged, covidiocy during the pandemic. Wouldn’t trust the guy with my bus fare.

    EmmetSpiceland: Oft imitated but never bettered.

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,321 ✭✭✭Allinall


    Just a technicality, but the 800 people mentioned above lost their own money.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,625 ✭✭✭Tork


    Maybe more people should look at his Twitter, just to see how unhinged the man is.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,886 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Has the government come looking to take your home off you?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,570 ✭✭✭vriesmays


    He looks like Indiana Jones.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,383 ✭✭✭rolling boh


    Eddie's advice may result in your savings dissapearing over a short time span .



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,570 ✭✭✭vriesmays


    Wiser to invest your savings with Catriona Carey,



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,016 ✭✭✭growleaves


    I don't trust him at all or put any stock in what he says even though I myself am not a believer in 'lockdowns'.

    He separated 800 fools from their money. Amateur vulture investors looking to flip distressed properties in Detroit? I'll feel sorry for them when I stop laughing.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,782 ✭✭✭Dakota Dan




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,782 ✭✭✭Dakota Dan


    That goes over the heads of many posting on this thread. As with any investment there is also a risk.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭Swaine


    Eddie Hobbs gets more abuse for losing some rich folk their savings than Bertie does for losing the Irish state billions.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,849 ✭✭✭Brussels Sprout


    Makes a change from him doing online videos with anti-vaxxers like he was last year


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,383 ✭✭✭rolling boh


    Part of the problem with Eddie was his profile as some sort of financial guru and had all the answers but as rightly pointed out there is always a risk with any investment so when that happens it will get a lot of coverage especially if you do your dough .



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 984 ✭✭✭Still stihl waters 3


    An average loss of 16250 euros, not a huge amount, for instance, I have access to 16250 but my better judgement tells me not to invest in something I know nothing about, if people who have money to invest like this then they should know that "investment values go up as well as down" as the lad on the financial ads keep telling us. Like going into a bookie, don't be surprised if you don't finish with more than you started with



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,485 ✭✭✭NSAman


    No issue with him loosing peoples money.

    having dealt with him on a one to one basis, the guy is a class A ass**.

    people like him, invariably believe their own importance. Needless to say, he didn’t get he wanted from me.

    Kildare’s gain is corks victory



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,016 ✭✭✭growleaves


    Its peak Celtic Tiger. Especially funny since so many Irish people think they have such a great handle on American race politics. Who did they think was going to move to Detroit to juice the share price?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,251 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    It was a bit of a shock to see him turn up on TV last week on a debate on housing - no doubt delighted to get the invite.

    I was curious to see what he'd get into, considering he's spent the last couple of years spouting all sorts of utter gibberish on twitter, giving every impression of a man who has lost his mind.

    He started off kinda tethered to planet earth, but soon wandered off into scattershot incoherent bar stool analogising between socialism and farmers owning cows. It was embarrassing, it wasn't just as if he was debating another issue altogether as the rest of the contributors, but that he was inhabiting a different planet entirely .

    He's an out and out nutter.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,071 ✭✭✭StevenToast


    How much money has eddie hobbs received from RTE over the years....

    Reason no. 67549 not to pay the licence fee....

    "Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining." - Fletcher



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,391 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    GDY151


    I'm assuming RTE has some new show lined up for their former massiah.



  • Posts: 13,753 ✭✭✭✭ Jon Prehistoric Cloud


    A consummate failure.

    • Finance
    • Media
    • Politics

    No wonder he's hitched his wagon to the gullible anti-vax crowd. They'll donate to anyone that massages their delusion.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 461 ✭✭HerrKapitan


    Would you have written this if he had different viewpoints on covid lockdowns?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 757 ✭✭✭generic_throwaway


    Do you find yourself lining up beside someone who takes bizarre positions all the time? So you you question the motives of the poster, rather than reassessing your own position?

    We call that cognitive dissonanace.



  • Posts: 7,714 [Deleted User]


    In fairness, at the time, every financial institution was saying the same thing..



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,847 ✭✭✭take everything


    Of course.

    I just think he's a fool.

    Albeit a fool who can do well for himself



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,313 ✭✭✭enricoh


    He was flogging gaffs in Cape Verde many moons ago, may as well have lashed a few up in Timbuktu while at it- serious returns! There should always be people out there to milk suckers dry.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,313 ✭✭✭enricoh





  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,649 ✭✭✭silliussoddius


    His tv show Rip Off Ireland was quite good, his next one about how to spend SSRAs went completely into head up his ass territory. A sign of things to come.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,327 ✭✭✭✭Donald Trump



    To be fair, they weren't telling people to buy up distressed properties in Detroit



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