I'm with Fidelity also, and if I wanted more shares, I'd open an account with a firm that does not have this temporary restriction, but I have all the millions of shares I want at this time.

There is no sin involved to have more than one trading service to circumvent this issue.

At a later date, when this is fixed, I'd just transfer my holdings in firm number two over to Fidelity. Probably a fee (penalty) to close the account and move it, but easily made up with anticipated pps increase.

I was with Wachovia Securities, moved it all to Fidelity about 15 years ago, and I think it cost me $125.

JMO, when this gets fixed, buyers step in on Fidelity and chances are they will pay more than today's pps.