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결론: 영상은 피터 쉬프와 그의 회사 Europacific Capital에 대한 개인적 공격과 고객 불만 후기 소개가 중심이며, 자산 가격 전망은 없다. 쉬프의 발언 논란: 쉬프가 해당 상장기업에 대해 근거 없이 과장된 발언을 했다고 주장하며, 이것이 공매도 후 공포 유발로 돈을 벌려는 시도로 보인다고 비판했다. 쉬프의 댓글 대응: 쉬프가 유튜브 댓글로 즉시 반응하고 개인적으로 공격했으며, 화자가 해당 기업의 투자자라고 주장했으나 화자는 이를 부인했다. 좋아요 조작 주장: 화자는 쉬프가 영상에 비추천을 대량으로 구매해 영상을 묻으려 한다고 주장하며 시청자들에게 좋아요를 요청했다. 고객 후기 소개: 화자는 Yelp의 1점 후기를 여러 개 읽었다. 주요 내용은 투자 손실(포트폴리오 50% 하락, 자산 20% 이상 손실), 과도한 수수료, 무례한 응대, 책 주문 지연 등이다. 후기 내 매매 관련 주장: 일부 후기에서는 EPC가 기존 보유 종목을 매도하도록 권유했으나 이후 해당 종목이 크게 상승했다는 주장, 특정 상품(Perth Mint 관련) 투자 후 손실 및 수수료 부담이 있었다는 주장이 나왔다. 화자의 입장: 화자는 기업의 합법성 여부는 판단하지 않는다고 밝혔으나, 쉬프의 행동은 미숙하고 품위에 맞지 않는다고 평가했다. 종목·자산 전망: 대상 자산에 대한 1~3개월 가격 방향 예측 발언은 없음.
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Hey everybody. So, as you may have seen, I put up a video yesterday about the financial and gold markets pundit Peter Schiff. So, Schiff made some statements about a publicly traded company that I've worked with before and that I'm a customer of. And uh he these were just totally outrageous statements.
It was almost as if he's shorting the company and wants to make money from uh provoking fear. And so he responded to me in the YouTube comment section and uh for such a busy guy to respond right away on a video mentioning him is a little weird. And then he started to go after me personally and he claimed that I'm an investor and shareholder in this company which I'm not.
Uh it it just shows like a real lack of of discipline that he'll just make stuff up. And this is one of my pet peeves as a journalist and as a pundit is there's this class of people who made it uh from being cable news pundits really before the internet came along. And they got away with just saying outrageous stuff on TV because they would get rebooked that way and they could get a lot of attention for their business that way.
And Peter Schiff's business is Europacific Capital. So let's give his business a little bit of attention today since that seems to be what he wants. And uh I I just can't stress enough how unprofessional it is for somebody like Peter Schiff to come into the YouTube comment section of my YouTube channel, which I built from scratch without spending any money from zero subscribers to now more than 10,000 of you guys.
And and thank you so much for that. Uh but you know, I'm not somebody who's paying for promotion. I'm just putting out content that I think is important. And here this guy with some resources attacks my channel. You know, I've never seen so many down votes on a video. and I've put up I've uploaded 155 videos on my channel.
Uh so I know YouTube at this point. I have a feel for the platform and uh I believe that he's engaging in some kind of social media manipulation. I believe that he is buying down votes on videos and on content he does not like to uh bury that content. So if you like what I'm about to say about his company, if you think it should get out there to more people, uh just make sure you put a thumbs up.
hit that thumbs up so that he cannot bury this video because I've ne again I've never seen that many uh down votes on one of my videos and this was not a controversial video. I wasn't saying something offensive. Uh I wasn't cursing. I wasn't drunk. I wasn't mad. This is like really tame stuff, right?
Just questioning why he's attacking a company uh without really any basis in fact. And so let's go over to Google. If you just search on Google for Europacific Capital, Yelp, that'll bring up all the Yelp reviews for his company. Uh let's go ahead and read a few of these. So, at the top, there are some good reviews.
And uh then if you scroll down just three reviews down, you see a long string of one-star reviews. And these appear to be from real people. So, let's read a few of these. Uh I only listen to Peter Schiff because his father was smart and correct 99.9% of the time. Peter actually knows exactly what is going on, but has very little idea how to actually profit from it.
That being said, I ordered a copy of his father's uh Irwin Shift book and have yet to receive it. Make matters worse, they told my credit card company the order is still being processed 45 days later. If these jackasses can't manage to properly handle the chain of command of a $50 book, you better believe they can't handle investing your currency.
Uh, another person uh has submitted another one-star review. Do not let them manage your money. They do not know how to manage a portfolio. Lost money. Invested money with them about 10 years ago. Portfolio down 50%. Luckily, I closed my account or I might have lost everything. Another one-star review from Nancy in Chicago.
Well, I put in 900K nearly 300 nearly 3 years ago and have less than 700K now. I wish I wouldn't have fallen for the sales pitch and just left that money in a savings account. The icing on the cake is all the transaction fees that I pay for them, losing over 20% of my life's savings. This was a financial disaster for me personally.
I hope other people don't fall victim to it. Uh, another one-star review. I put some money to work at the beginning of 2009. I was advised by people at EPC, that's Europacific Capital, Peter Shiff's company. I was advised by people at EPC to sell some of my existing holdings at another broker to raise cash to invest at EPC.
That turned out to be the worst financial decision of my life. In 2014, after staggering losses, I finally closed the account. The worst thing is that if I had kept the stocks that I was advised by them to sell, I would have quadrupled my money instead of losing half. If you care about your money, please stay away from these people.
I can't believe they're still in business. Another one-star review. Signing up with EPC was by far the worst investing mistake of my life. Not only did they pick risky stocks that are now worth a fraction of a penny, costing me tens of thousands of dollars in the process, they are the reason I liquidated part of my existing portfolio to raise funds for my EPC portfolio.
Two stocks from the liquidated portfolio would be worth over four times what they were worth when I sold them, and two other stocks would have grown over six times. All in all, the decision to let EPC manage some of my money has cost me about 200k between the money they lost and the gains I missed. The only high netw worth clients of EPC can only be the ones that just joined.
Give it enough time. All become low netw worth clients. If you care about your hard-earned money, please stay away from these people. They must be the worst in the business. Another one-star review. I'm a longtime follower of Peter Schiff, so naturally I invested with his firm for a few years. Unfortunately, his firm is a mess.
I think this is a management and leadership issue on Peter's part for allowing a group of people with low focus on service quality to run his firm. Some of the folks there are junior, unprofessional, and obnoxious at times. Eventually, I transferred all my funds out and moved to Charles Schwab. Read Peter's books, watch make a fool of people on TV, but invest in his firm with extra caution.
Those folks don't run his business like Peter does his other endeavors. Another one-star review. just received a very rude phone call from them today. The caller demanded in an aggressive tone for my name and then subsequently hung up after I responded. Who does this? I expressed interest in this company in the past but haven't heard from them in years.
Why re-engaged the conversation with such rudeness? Another one-star review. Hopefully, you're starting to see a trend here. Stay far away. I read Peter Schiff's book, Crash Proof, and liked his analysis. I then put a chunk of change with Europacific Capital. Despite their horrible perform performance, thank you.
Despite their horrible performance in the 88 crash and despite the terrible review and warning given by financial columnist Michael Shedlock, I should have listened. The brokers were aggressive, pushing private placements that gave them up front profits, but almost all the investments ultimately tanked, causing big losses.
I had trouble keeping them at bay when I had uninvested assets with them, and I had trouble reaching them to get explanations as to what happened when those assets disappeared on my statements. Well, if you put up a YouTube video, you will apparently hear from Peter uh right away. Let's go ahead and read a couple more of these and then we'll close it out.
This is depressing. Uh, another one-star review. I invested many thousands with Europacific from the recommendation of my father. Boy, was that a bad recommendation. First off, they treated me like I was a waste of time because they're a quote big deal that usually handles accounts way larger and I was just a small fish to them.
Then they had me place a little less than half of my money in Perth Mint, which was the only good idea from them and the remaining money was to be invested by them. Perth Mint is a company that sits on gold and silver in Australia. Essentially, Europacific then charged me a 3% commission and purchased a variety portfolio for me.
After a year, they had lost me 3% and I realized what a waste of time they were considering my own returns and my self-directed brokerage and Roth IRA accounts. I called to liquidate my account and went through a nightmare to get my money. It took me over 2 weeks to get my check in the mail and then another week for the check to clear.
Not only was that a pain, but they charged me 2% selling commission along with other fees. All in all, I lost 8% of my money and wasted lots and lots of time. 8% was thousands of dollars, and I'm furious. Please do not trust these people with your money. This this makes me upset, you know, because uh what he did to my YouTube channel, though ultimately doesn't matter.
I deleted the video. He was uh you know doing something to create a lot of artificial down votes and I was getting all these nasty comments about me questioning my credibility, questioning my past and these people were not my subscribers. And you know, could they have been just drive by people who viewed the video uh kind of organically on YouTube?
That's definitely possible. But why would they be so offended by such a tame and mild video where I'm not really even saying anything other than the fact that he's making claims about a publicly traded and regulated company that appear to be not based in fact. And I have trouble with that for somebody who has a supposedly very big platform and supposedly very successful company, Europacific Capital.
Why is he doing that? But then to come after me personally, it rubbed me the wrong way. I'm happy to put this video out there as public service. And if you want to get the word out about Shiff, just give it a thumbs up so that his manipulation can't outdo this. Feel free to share this video. I don't care.
I don't like being attacked. And after reading these Yelp comments and some of the other things about him on the internet, I have no doubt in my mind that this is a person who is just uh not nice, right? This is not a nice guy. And uh I'm not a terribly nice person either. If somebody is is harming others and when I read all these stories, I know people personally who've been taken in by financial scams, it makes my heart hurt.
You know, I know people who are stuck in jobs they don't want to be in because they were scammed uh out of their hard-earned money. So, I just want to get this out there. And I'm not saying that his company is legit or not legit, but this is not the way to do internet marketing. What Petership is doing is very immature and it's frankly beneath him. Thanks for watching.
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