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To: Carole Olkowski who wrote (142)	12/13/1998 2:57:00 PM
From: Andrew	Respond to of 2259

Hi Carole. I have had a similar thing happen to me when I used to deal with CIBC. They told me that a stock I wished to purchase did not meet my criteria. When you apply for your account you have to fill out your account objectives. Low risk, medium or high risk. Safety of principal, long or short term growth. I asked the fellow what I can do to change my criteria to meet my new objective with the speculative stock I wished to buy. He said I could verbally change it over the phone and he would record it. This is an OSC regulation. I laughed and told him to change my criteria to 100% high risk and 100% short term growth. All my accounts now have these same objectives now and they do not bother me anymore. On another note I am glad the bank mergers don't look like they are going to happen. I now deal with Greenline and they execute much quicker and I don't have to listen to elevator music for up 3-4 minutes as was the norm with CIBC, speed sometimes being of essence. I don't know what changes a merger would have caused but I don't want to find out. Andy

To: Carole Olkowski who wrote (142)	12/13/1998 9:34:00 PM
From: JAS	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2259

E-Trade tried that on me Carole... I soon changed my objective to 95 % high risk and 5% med risk. That solved the problem! After 20 years I feel that I have the right to lose or gain on what I want to. Don't need a snot nose kid telling me how to spend hard earned dollars. Maybe someone should call up all those that suck on a cigarette and say, "now, are you really sure you want to do that?" Yes, I realize why they do this. SEC rules. Just change your objective and there should be no further problem. Jim

To: Carole Olkowski who wrote (142)	12/14/1998 10:34:00 PM
From: QuietWon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2259

Carole, hey I had a disc brkr make my order "pending" and have no reason for doing so - that was a Friday. On the following Monday, I was still trying to resolve it with them - stock popped $1 7/16 and I couldn'r sell cuz didn;t have the shares and didn't know if I would get them. I had the time & sales and could prove they should have filled me. At 11:08am they agreed to give me the shares - thx after stock filled the gap and was even for the day - thanks a lot. I removed my acount from that co!