ATurd was never about "helping" clients out with GVRP. It was all a scam. They were planning to force those who sold to buy back and were relying on what they heard from the company.
Hence the "you can sell but not buy back" viewpoint.
They told people they had their shares and could sell, people said place my order for 1 billion at .0001, 5 seconds later you heard "you got a fill for 2 million shares ($200) hope you don't have a problem". What do you mean? Well if the shares don't get delivered then you will need to buy them back. Well buy me 2M at .0002 then so I dont have a problem (and I will take a $200 loss). Sorry we cannot do that, we are not allowing opening positions in GVRP at this time.
Go ask Taki. Go check the "I sold my shares at Ameritrade" thread.
ATurd was stuck because they had delivered IOU shares and were right in the middle of the mess.
They had no vested interests for the clients and never have.
That was their play but things did not go as they had hoped.
MAYBE THEY SHOULD ASK THEM WHY IT WAS DIFFERENT FOR GVRP!
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