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Pastimes : ETRADE Sucks! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DD™ who wrote (1271)	1/12/1999 5:16:00 PM
From: Bob Wassel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3262

I tried to enter a market order near the close and by the time their S L O W system worked, the market was closed. I thought, having tried to enter a day order, that it would just be not entered. NOT SO, screen says order will be entered at the open of the market tomorrow. No way do I want a market order executed at the open! When I try to cancel, I get a message that the screen in not working. It is now 5:10 PM and I have been on hold for customer service for over an hour. My account has only been open for a few days and I am going to transfer it out. My problem is that transfers take 3-6 weeks and I will be out of the market for that time period. Bad as that is, I will have to do it. ETrade has been hyped by Gomez and some others, so I thought they would be good. I have accounts at Dreyfus and JB Oxford and they are both superior to ETrade for executing orders. I am going to seriously investigate direct electronic trading through CyberBroker or MB trading. Any comments and/or experience with those two, or others would be appreciated. It is now 5:20 and I am still on hold. Unbelievable!