Phoenix Associates Land Syndicate (fka PBLSQ)

[gnulnx]

Ok I'm gonna post this to the boards now.

As far as I know I'm the only one that has had this happen. I'm very interested in finding out if other have had a similar experience.

Yesterday I got 2 separate phone calls from tdameritrade. A little back ground is in order before I continue. I've been with tdameritrade since it was Datek with one of these accounts. The other is my IRA. As far as I can recollect I have never received a phone call from either ameritrade or Datek that was similar to my calls yesterday.

Yesterday on 2 occasion I got a call from an "account specalist" that was offering to help me diversiy my positions. In both phone calls he specifically mentioned PBLS. Now to be fair I am WAY over stacked in PBLS. There are really 2 ways that I see to look at this.

1) tdameritrade really does care about me and my investments and the want me to know that PBLS is risky.

2) tdameritrade needs to repurchase shares for clients (or themselves) that have short positions.

Now before everyone chalks this up to pure boogy man theory I'd like to point out that last year when PAIM ran hard ameritrade quit excepting buy's. They would only except sells orders on PAIM. I think there are some other instances, but this one I recall as I watched that stock daily..without position.

SO I'm not saying to buy into the whole NSS theory, but I would like to know if any other investors with deep discount brokers have had similar experiences. I'm sure it's common for the big brokerages to do this...that's why those people pay big commissions. I pay 10.99 and have never recieved any help or advice on my investments until yesterday.


BTW this is NOT why I did an about face on PBLS.