I recommend to anyone and everyone to stay away from eturd/ameriturd/scotturd. I've had accounts with both tdameriturd and eturd and they pulled similar nonsense with me for other pinks in the past when I wanted certs. They also sucked for filling buy and sell orders on pinks quickly and often times they would trade all around my orders and never touch mine.
I have been with Interactive Brokers for a few years now. I like them but they aren't real keen on pulling certs either. I remedied that by opening a brokerage account with my bank. It's very easy to wire shares electronically out of my IB trading account and into my bank broker account and then they pull the certs for me, and they do it a hell of a lot faster than the 3 turds do it...for free. I've heard Noble trading is good as well, but have no experience with them.
I'm not sure about Noble, but IB is a direct access broker, which basically means that there is no one between you and the MM on the bid/ask, which puts your trades through faster because there's no person in between you and your order entry. You can even choose the MM you want to go through on stocks where that option is provided.
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