AlanC: used to be, amazing how in sales the psychology is so different then people think it would be.
Better to unsell a customer, have them wait for a new product, then force a sell into something they will be unhappy with.
And here why did that company need to unsell a retial investor, now, after five years, on a revoked stock?
Better in their case to act all nonchalant and portray that they do this all the time and it does not matter to them at all.
This revoked stock matters to someone a great deal. It takes some effort and cost to make an offer like this and it indicates that someone somewhere needed to make a single trade "go away" after five years for some reason.
My best guess is due to some regulatory reason, the FTD was sticking out on some accounting of past trades...