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Technology Stocks : E*TRADE IPO ALERT THREAD -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: star56 who wrote (296)	4/16/1999 4:38:00 PM
From: Keith J	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15145

I think there's a couple things here. First, in my opinion, Etrade needs to penalize people somehow for flipping. Second, Etrade needs to have a better system for allocating shares. Whether that gets into how much money is in someone's account or number of trades or how long they've been with E*trade or even a "lottery" for those that express interest, I honestly believe they need to revamp and improve their allocation system. Personally, Platinum traders get a lot that non-Platinum customers get already for free, so why give them additional priviliges in IPOs. I for one did not get any PCLN because it wasn't listed on the customer bulletin page, and I wasn't very happy about it. Just my two cents worth. KJ