Comments on: E*TRADE is a Tar Baby http://www.tikirobot.net/wp/2006/05/15/etrade-is-a-tar-baby/ Mai Tais and Blinky Lights, Ahoy! Sat, 28 Jan 2012 06:57:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: rajbot http://www.tikirobot.net/wp/2006/05/15/etrade-is-a-tar-baby/comment-page-1/#comment-332 rajbot Thu, 18 May 2006 20:42:53 +0000 http://www.tikirobot.net/wp/2006/05/15/etrade-is-a-tar-baby/#comment-332 Here is <a href="http://wilshipley.com/blog/2006/05/etheft-etrade.html" rel="nofollow">Wil Shipley's</a> post about Etrade.. <blockquote>This brings us to today. E*Trade still has $5,000 of my money, plus the interest they've earned on it. Unsurprisingly, I haven't gotten a call from anyone in their Risks group today. In fact, so far E*Trade has indicated NO intention to actually make any effort to undo what they've done, have repeatedly told me they'd get back to me and failed to do so, have followed NO leads to actually find who stole my identity (he was going to show up at the hotel!), have apparently not called any authorities about this. In general their attitude is, "Well, good luck solving this on your own! We're pretty happy where we are, actually, since, you know, we make interest on that money of yours."</blockquote> Here is Wil Shipley’s post about Etrade..

This brings us to today. E*Trade still has $5,000 of my money, plus the interest they’ve earned on it. Unsurprisingly, I haven’t gotten a call from anyone in their Risks group today. In fact, so far E*Trade has indicated NO intention to actually make any effort to undo what they’ve done, have repeatedly told me they’d get back to me and failed to do so, have followed NO leads to actually find who stole my identity (he was going to show up at the hotel!), have apparently not called any authorities about this. In general their attitude is, “Well, good luck solving this on your own! We’re pretty happy where we are, actually, since, you know, we make interest on that money of yours.”

]]> By: Adam Rosi-Kessel http://www.tikirobot.net/wp/2006/05/15/etrade-is-a-tar-baby/comment-page-1/#comment-249 Adam Rosi-Kessel Tue, 16 May 2006 12:14:29 +0000 http://www.tikirobot.net/wp/2006/05/15/etrade-is-a-tar-baby/#comment-249 I've had excellent experiences with ING Direct. They don't yet offer individual stock sales as far as I know, but they do have mutual funds, CDs, and of course, savings accounts. Their savings and CD rates are right up near the top interest rates according to bankrate.com, and their customer service is responsive and easy. They also did our home equity line of credit painlessly and at a good rate. I’ve had excellent experiences with ING Direct. They don’t yet offer individual stock sales as far as I know, but they do have mutual funds, CDs, and of course, savings accounts. Their savings and CD rates are right up near the top interest rates according to bankrate.com, and their customer service is responsive and easy. They also did our home equity line of credit painlessly and at a good rate.

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