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To: T L Comiskey who wrote (48014)	11/5/1999 1:00:00 PM
From: S100	Respond to of 152472

<Schwabb SUCKS....!!!!..Get it Up Chuck......cant access online...been on hold on the phone for 10+ min..........anyone have Fed. #....Errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr...thx...Tim> I have had several accounts at Charlies for 15 years or so. There are some problems with them, have only two IRA accounts there at this time. Do my serious trading with a different broker. I could not access one of the accounts today and just got off the line with them, held for maybe 20 minutes before I gave up. Noticed the signature services number on my statement and called it. Representative on in 2 or 3 minutes. I wrote up the following to send to someone who just moved to Schwab and will attach it. ------------- >I went to Schwab and got the Platinum service. It is ok for now. signature service: (several levels) This and $5 will get you a cup of coffee at almost any Starbucks. You will get an email once in a while, after reading one or two, you will put them straight into the trashcan. You will also get a big packet in the mail, After reading it, you will wonder why they sent it and why you read it. You will also get a friendly phone call once in while. Also you get a special place on their website. I have found very little of interest there or anywhere on their site. I have had an account with Schwab for at least 15 years, maybe more. It was worth it when they were one of the first, if not the first, discount broker. Sure beat the prices at E F Hutton and others. Hope you are not an active internet trader, they seem to use IBM mainframes and are down quite often. Use limit orders, some trades in actively traded stocks may take a few minutes, other a few hours. If your trade is executed hours later at the high for the day and also for the week like one of mine was, you will be told that it is your fault for not using a limit order. Hope you like one of the WORST statements I have ever seen, and I have seen a lot of them starting with Hornblower and Weeks. If you have any dividends, plan to look in three places to find how much, which company and when it happened. If you own BRKa, you will have your share multiplied by ten and the price divided by 10. They can not handle a stock price larger than $9999.99.