Quote from hittinbidz:
How did you pressure the president of Etrade? Sounds cool. Did they not want to return your capital or was is a policy issue?
See below letter which produced a check within 4 weeks. Soon thereafter, ETrade Professional was spun-off. Boy, I was lucky.
R. Jarrett Lilian, President
E Trade Financial Corp
135 East 57th Street
New York NEW YORK 10022
Dear Jarrett:
I have been in contact by phone with your secretary over the past 2 weeks. Kindly she was able to eventually (after 3 days !) steer me to the right contacts. This letter is a result of my inability to contact one of your ETrade Professional clients, a proprietary trading firm, doing business under the name of Barkley Trading (
www.barkleytrading.com) . An attached letter to them dated 12/18/2005 was never answered. A follow-up email (attached) was never answered. Indeed, the phone number listed on the website never has a responseâ¦.it just rings..again, NO RESPONSE. Incredibly, they are NOT EVEN LISTED IN THE PHONE DIRECTORY OF NYC ! Further research indicates that their âaffiliateâ named âGreat Eastern Securitiesâ has had both NASD sanctions against them (CRD # 1276859) as well as SEC actions (Proc File No. 3-11372).
I am aware of your professional divisionâs tenuous status. Accordingly, and for several other reasons, I wish to now entirely liquidate my subaccount of âBARKCSâ immediately. For identification purposes, I have filled-out many Etrade Professional forms in the past that have been required due to SEC or other government regulatory body; you should have these on hand and they should match the above address. In addition, the balance in that subaccount should be over $XX,XXX. Since Barkley Trading is not willing to respond to my request, I authorize you to send me a check for the balance in that account immediately to the above address and to further close that account from future activity.
Sincerely,
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Cc: Ron Goodman, ETrade Professional Trading Desk