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

To: Diamond Jim who wrote (2088)	4/9/1999 10:44:00 AM
From: R. Bond	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3262

Moving shares in your account from Cash to Margin with no notification. That's a very nice ETrade feature I just happened to discover when calling to complain about another problem. On Tuesday, a stock I own became marginable. Apparently, after the open today ETrade automatically put those shares on margin with no authorization from me. This time I will write to the SEC. Somehow, I don't think that changing an account so ETrade can charge you margin interest is legally done without client authorization/notification from ETrade. The original problem, by the way, is that I am being refused trading when I place an order, despite the fact that there is more than enough money in my account. Nice touch. Cheers, Bond