Story time: Another brokerage also showed .0001 bid
I had a phone chat about an hour ago with a fellow WCVC shareholder/researcher, who told me that he heard from another person today who said that their non-Schwab/non-ETrade brokerage account also showed the .0001 bid.
Yes, I'm purposely omitting this other brokerage firm name because this is 2nd-hand information, but if it's true, then either the Schwab "glitch" is quite a catchy bug, or some external source 'out there' [a real market-maker??] made this bid available for at least these two firms -- Schwab and unnamed-other -- to pick up, display AND credit shares with real-market value.
As an aside, this phone-buddy also said that his E-Trade account was actually showing a system error rather than normal status of his account (that has WCVC in it). That might explain why E-Trade wasn't showing the .0001 bid.
Alternate theories are welcome.