I have had etrade on the phone for several major i

I have had etrade on the phone for several major issues over the last few years. I find that the reps answer many questions with a best guess. I've had several reps all give me different answers when I asked them the same question. One time a guy there gave me such gross misinformation that it got me into margin trouble. Even after I made them play back the recording of the conversation where I was misinformed, I still had to cover the call myself. *

The supervisors give better answers than the regular reps. I guess they have access to more detailed information about various things. But generally speaking, I personally wouldn't etch anything any of the reps told me into concrete ........except of course when they told me over and over that I needed to personally cover the margin call I generated because of their misinformation. That was written in stone all the way to the center of the earth.


* He told me that a margin call generated by daytrading a stock bought with overnight buying power would clear itself as soon as the trade settled....so in two days. Of course I thought he was giving me correct information and I broke the daytrading rule for overnight buying power on purpose the next day. That's when they called me and explained I needed to cover the call immediately. Round and round we went, but the red hot poker somehow still ended up in my ass.

Then I had major problems with L2 on Pro. I will spare you those details, but it was very ugly.