My group still owns many divy shares. A while back one of the people in the group transferred their shares from Etrade to a different broker. The shares never got moved and stayed at Etrade. Etrade offered to BUY the shares at .03. When I called trying to sell Etrade mine, they said it only applied in certain cases and they didn't want mine.
Someone said there was a DTCC freeze on the shares, but the t/a said they didn't know anything about that.