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To: robbie who wrote (110)	4/19/1998 5:49:00 PM
From: Sowbug	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 513

Get this: I open my Ameritrade account partly because of the 5 free trades offer. I make dozens of day trades. I send in my certificate to get the $40 credit ($8 x 5 trades). I get a credit for $24. Since 24 isn't evenly divisible by 5, and since 24 isn't 40, I call and ask what's up with the other $16. It turns out that I *lost* my other $16 because two of the trades I put down on the certificate were limit orders. Never mind I made plenty of market order trades. Wouldn't you think that because I paid *more* for a limit trade that they'd still give me the $8 credit? What buffoon at Ameritrade came up with this idiotic policy? Are they *trying* to make sure everyone has a bitter story to tell about their company?