Matra Petroleum

sommet .... i had an arguement with a HSBC Share Dealing employee on just the same kind of thing on another share. The MM's had set 22p to buy, people were buying at 21.25p so i tried 21.5p to be " assured " of a buy.

I then called up after more 21.25p buys went through and i asked why my deal wasn't going through and he just said " the buy price is 22p " so i explained that that is not a hard and fast rule and sometimes, and obviously in this case, people were buying below that price ... i may as well have been arguing with an answer machine ... he was braindead and just kept quoting the buy price.

In the end i gave up and bought at 22p .... thinking of moving my shares elsewhere in the new year ... HSBC share dealing is crap.

Regards
IHNC

P.S. May the force be with you ;-)