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ShareBuilder Account Transfer Completed

Posted by Sun on July 19, 2007 (6) Comment

The whole process took less time than I expected.
An email from ShareBuilder arrived yesterday, informing me that a check has been issue to me. Since I didn’t make any withdraw request myself, it could only be part of the account transfer process. So I logged in to my Zecco free trading account and was quite [...]

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ShareBuilder Getting Flexible?

Posted by Sun on July 14, 2007 (5) Comment

One of the problems I have with ShareBuilder, also one of the reasons I decided to leave ShareBuilder, is its lack of flexibility when it comes to choosing when to invest and how to invest. For instance, at the time when I joined the program, I could only select to invest on the first [...]

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ShareBuilder to Zecco: The Surprises

Posted by Sun on July 12, 2007 (11) Comment

Just as I was about to abandon the idea of transferring my ShareBuilder account to Zecco* (Zecco asked me to resubmit the account transfer form, which I didn’t do), the process made a dramatic turn yesterday and now it seems that things are pressing ahead as they should be.
A trade confirmation email from ShareBuilder [...]

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Account Transfer from ShareBuilder to Zecco Update: The Missing Information

Posted by Sun on July 9, 2007 (1) Comment

To me, things never went well when transferring an account. It took me two months to transfer my Roth IRA from Scottrade to Vanguard last time because of various errors at both Scottrade and Vanguard. Now the same problem is happening again with Zecco.
Yesterday, I got an alert from ShareBuilder, saying there’s an important message [...]

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Who Takes Back the Pennies?

Posted by Sun on June 30, 2007 (10) Comment

When I was in the process of getting a Zecco trading account a couple of weeks ago, it really surprised me when Zecco took back the two small trial deposits from my checking account after the account verification process was completed. The total of 40 cents was nothing, but the action itself speaks more than [...]

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