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Technology Stocks : E*TRADE IPO ALERT THREAD -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: CatDog who wrote (3740)	6/8/1999 4:16:00 PM
From: $Mogul	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 15145

Well that is too bad, very sad day for all of us old guys heres but I guess i have to be happy that I am not a Flipper!!! ETrade you will always have a place in my heart as ETrash, thanks for the memories, and may the servers always go down, you POS! $Mogul

To: CatDog who wrote (3740)	6/8/1999 4:29:00 PM
From: Tom_	Respond to of 15145

YAHOOOO!!! Thank you ETrade. Folks, prepare for the rise of the living dead: we faint-of-heart clickers who said to hell with it after a while because of the low odds of getting the first minute. "Two hours? Yahoo!! Can do easy!" A smart move by ETrade, I think. IPO's are all about bringing people to their site, and more people will play the game if they think they have a chance. Luck to us all. Best wishes, Tom

To: CatDog who wrote (3740)	6/8/1999 4:37:00 PM
From: Gerald Walls	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15145

You're now likely to have a one-in-50 (or less) chance of getting an IPO even as a non-flipper, no matter what you do. Yeeha. I hope those whiners who provided "a great deal of feedback" are happy with ruining the only place where one had some control over his chance of getting an IPO. If ETrade starts looking at trading volume or account size I'll move my account (with a size larger than my 14-years-of-experience software engineer's annual salary) elsewhere on general principle. My feedback to ETrade: I've managed to participate in several of your IPOs due to my vigilance in watching your IPO pages. You've just murdered a system which gave me control over my chance of getting into an IPO and replaced it with one where I'd have a better chance of rolling snake-eyes than getting an IPO. I'm considering closing my account.