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Non-Tech : E*Trade (NYSE:ET) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: HairBall who wrote (7517)	7/11/1999 12:53:00 PM
From: pass pass	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13953

Big difference between AOL and ETrade.* You are wrong! If you can't log on AOL, you can't trade online regardless which broker you uses.

To: HairBall who wrote (7517)	7/11/1999 1:25:00 PM
From: italiana	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13953

If the site is down you just call ETrade's phone brokers. I read a posting of a complainer that he/she had to wait 8 minutes to get a ETrade broker on the phone. EXCUSE ME!! 8 minutes, I waited longer then 8 minutes just to get my former discount broker on the phone, and I paid him $45 a trade. italiana

To: HairBall who wrote (7517)	7/12/1999 8:55:00 AM
From: TechJustice	Respond to of 13953

I use Etrade for ease of service and for access to ipos. I have made over $20000 from ipos this year. Maybe I am biased? Anyway, at the mininum, I still feel more in charge of my executions than just 2 years ago when I just called my broker and told them to buy or sell. By the way, you all are forgetting the Etrade investment formula. That is: downtime and long service delays (due from high customer volume)= stock is going up. This is an oldtimer trick I learned. Don't judge a business by it's quality of service (at least in the beginning), look at their products and "breadth" of services available. Prime example, remember AOL problems in 96?