Do you guys know how the pink market works? Do I need to give lessons on what they are allowed to do?
I placed an order on a different stock, at the ask, not the bid. They gave me half of my shares, and then filled themselves up. Your broker can only route to one MM at a time, and the others have every opportunity they want to take the remaining shares before they fill you. Their computers are fast enough to beat the hand crank version your broker is using.
Somes of you guys are expecting orders to fill at the bid, and that just is not the way it goes. That is the MM's profit zone. If he sold at the ask, he refills at the bid before he fills retail.