Well been a few days since an entry so here goes.
I got the infamous 'letter' from the Deutsche Bank / Alex
Brown people about the directed stock offer thingy. So
naturally I went ahead opened the account. Then I get an
email from them stating that I had the wrong account number
and the correct on should be on its way. Some how or another
the message telling me the corrected number arrived before
the message telling me the incorrect number. Couple of
emails/phone calls later got this sorted out.
Pricing day comes. No word from them, read an article on
slashdot (i think) something about the range increasing blah
blah blah. Get a mail telling me that I will be contacted
tomrrow afternoon or I may call to confirm the price. So I
go ahead and call, get informed I can get 40 more shares
then the original 100. Did I want to do that. Sure, its only
money. The lady I spoke to couldn't confirm the price but
could confirm my allocation so I did. Next day rolls around
I can in am to confirm the price. Yep it priced at $30.00
please remit $4200.00. Off to the bank I go to wire said
funds to the broker.
I come home, get a message to call a friend of mine, so I
call him, he informes me that lnux is trading at 300+ so
that turned into a happy day. Now the paper work starts
trickling in from all this madness. Lets hope in one of them
is the check for the shares I sold. :)