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To: Richard Cunnning who wrote (1116)	11/10/1999 11:04:00 PM
From: Doug Coughlan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1339

My chart indicates OTC BB stocks are $14.95 regardless of price or number of shares. Don't be surprised though if you ask for some huge number of shares they point to some fine print restricting the number of shares. Yes you can trade online yourself. The "trading pit" says "price in fractions" which leads me to conclude that they don't trade in decimals. I have never traded a penny stock with Web Street.

To: Richard Cunnning who wrote (1116)	11/11/1999 12:17:00 AM
From: Zeddie88	Respond to of 1339

Rich, If you want to lose money on OTC:BB stocks, then use Web Street!! I have had nothing but headaches with them for the past two months and am just holding off to see if their upgrade to the DS3 line will remove the bottlenecks in their system. The problem is when you enter a trade and want to cancel the order or make a change in price, the confirmation NEVER comes back. Calling customer service is equally frustrating because they acknowledge that they have major problems and basically throw their hands in the air as well when you ask them why the changed or cancelled order hasn't appeared on my screen yet. In their office, they can't even see my order confirmed!! They advertise on CNN's Nightly Business Report that they have realtime updating account balances and yet I don't get my account balance updated until the beginning of the NEXT business day. As I've told anyone who's dared to ask me about my satisfaction, "I'm using Web Street like any full service broker in that I have to call long distance (at my expense since I am outside of the US), manually place my order and then wait on the line for a confirmation or else call back again (also at my own expense) for the confirmation! Hope this dissuades you from trading with them. Regards, Sue

To: Richard Cunnning who wrote (1116)	11/11/1999 12:17:00 AM
From: Zeddie88	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1339

Rich, If you want to lose money on OTC:BB stocks, then use Web Street!! I have had nothing but headaches with them for the past two months and am just holding off to see if their upgrade to the DS3 line will remove the bottlenecks in their system. The problem is when you enter a trade and want to cancel the order or make a change in price, the confirmation NEVER comes back. Calling customer service is equally frustrating because they acknowledge that they have major problems and basically throw their hands in the air as well when you ask them why the changed or cancelled order hasn't appeared on my screen yet. In their office, they can't even see my order confirmed!! They advertise on CNN's Nightly Business Report that they have realtime updating account balances and yet I don't get my account balance updated until the beginning of the NEXT business day. As I've told anyone who's dared to ask me about my satisfaction, "I'm using Web Street like any full service broker in that I have to call long distance (at my expense since I am outside of the US), manually place my order and then wait on the line for a confirmation or else call back again (also at my own expense) for the confirmation! Hope this disuades you from trading with them. Regards, Sue