IB bid price bigger than ask

[Option Trader]

Google bid price is now 622 and ask is 613.
Rimm is 100 bid price, 108 ask price.

Are you showing the same things?

 

[polpolik]

Same here.

 

[Option Trader]

Obviously one can notice those are problematic.
But if the bid price is lower (most of them are), can one assume it is accurate?

 

[hoodooman]

I was watching a gapped up stock the other day and as the price started to fall, the bid/ask price crossed and stayed that way for about 15 minutes. In the meantime, trades were being made. Then I started a thread about it and never got even one single reply.

 

[Option Trader]

I'm sure a lot of people viewed your thread.

So that a customer won't get confused or make wrongful assumptions, would it not be possible to get "no quotes" instead of "wrong quotes" in such situations?