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Originally posted by Rictor
When Ebay went public, they e-mailed all their members and offered to let them buy stock first. I think it was like $22 a share but I don't really remember...it was cheap.
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I do remember that... in fact, back in '99 some of the online broker accounts were attempting to let their members buy IPO shares, but unfortunately it never worked out.
When the now defunct MP3.com went public back then, there was quite a bit of buzz. So I attempted to buy up around $10k worth of IPO shares... only to find out that my buy order never went through. Would have stood to make some damn good money from that IPO... but was more or less screwed by E-Trade, not being able to fulfill the promises to their clients.
If I'm not misaken, there's even talk of this Google IPO using a lottery system when it comes to allocating shares. Good old supply and demand will dictate if you can get shares, and just how many you'll actually be able to get.
Not trying to be a naysayer here... because I would love to get in on this one myself. So I say again, if anybody has any info on where to acquire shares... by all means share the wealth
