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To: Mama Bear who wrote (10270)	11/14/1998 1:17:00 PM
From: dumbmoney	Respond to of 16892

I also transferred out the last few dollars when the interest was credited. Account shows $0.00, money transferred no problem. Of course Datek still owes me a few pennies (12 days of interest on last month's interest).

To: Mama Bear who wrote (10270)	11/17/1998 7:30:00 PM
From: Spots	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 16892

I got the 'success, you have requested a wire transfer of $x.xx'. Today I looked and it had been credited back, and no explanation. I immediately requested them to transfer it again. Perhaps they don't want to let go of those last dollars? Hurrah, I sold out my holdings today, finally. Now if DTK can just stay solvent through settlement date, I will disengage. In fairness, I must state that it only took Datek 4 or 5 minutes to execute a marketable limit sell at the bid which, according to my real-time bid/volume report, was approximately half the on-bid volume. Whoop. BTW, the daily activity report reflected execution time as 1 second (though the email confirm appears accurate, go figure). Another order in the spread (acutally a teeny below the ask with a 3/16 spread) executed in under a minute, so on balance no complaint; just funny. Haha. No guarantees, right? We defunded my wife's account some months ago, and thank goodness I resisted the wire transfer impulse. I must say the web-requested check arrived quickly. As did a later check transferring out the ubiquitous late interest payment. Now there's a 22-cent balance. Repeated requests via certified mail to close the account and send a check for the balance were, even before the interest payment, take a guess now, ... IGNORED (did you guess right?). Live it up on that 22 cents, Datek <ggg>. So, come Monday (hey, a day's grace, settlement should be Friday, but I'm the generous type), I will request a check for the cash balance. Not as big as my wife's, but that's my fault, not Datek's (got to take credit where it's due, I guess). I will share your relief when the check clears. Sorry for the long, rambling post, but the prospect of relief is too great to resist mouthing off about it. Regards, Spots