Nickname: marty

Review: The E-Trade tale is an accident waiting to happen. Try to talk to someone in customer service -- it's ok if you want to eat a full course lunch and paint a room while you are waiting. The average wait time is 25 minutes minimum, but then call back and see how quickly they pick up at new accounts. What will happen when we get a big selling wave and people need to talk to someone in customer service and/or the system breaks down? Attorneys will be writing newspaper ads faster than people can say "sell." People will learn that "sorry you are having trouble" by a computer does not mean much.

Date reviewed: Feb 8, 2006 9:05 PM

Nickname: duke

Review: My beef is that funds are at the mercy of being bought out by a new owner. One fund that did this to me had three changes in a decade. Since I trade very infrequently, all this escaped me until it finally went offshore. That was the straw. I presume a lot of top dogs got steak for dinner on these movements. Personally I have stocks that I bought in 1963 and doing rather well with them. I have bought no new stocks this millenium, but added to one that I bought in the early 1990's. Obviously I reinvest where the greedy don't charge a transaction fee.

Date reviewed: Feb 8, 2006 8:44 PM

Nickname: bruce

Review: Great info for us boomers. I would like to see more on mutuals.

Date reviewed: Feb 8, 2006 6:55 AM