Pershing Gold Corp fka PGLC

[possibly_not_gold_tutor]

The following was received from IR, June 28. It was unsigned. I tried calling, and always received a canned answering machine message, regardless of time of day when placing my call. Moved to emailing the company. Initial email was sent it June 22, and subsequently had to resend 2 more times before finally receiving a response 6 days later and after leaving phone message machine requests for contact as a shareholder. Not very impressed with PGLC's IR department. I guess when one has a billionaire funding the company and a big cheese former FMC VP as management, there is no need to coddle any lowly shareholder. The copy paste verbatim reply is in its totality, and is as follows:

Shares have not yet been distributed as the Registration is not complete. Once registration process is completed with SEC, stock will be distributed and tradable.

Does anyone know if full service brokers have any kind of electronic back channels where they can tick a stock for about to be released from registration information? Online brokers are useless for this kind of customer service.