Arrrggggghhh!

Help! Anyone out there a previous Nothing Ventured user? They've sold out to Fastrade and we've all been moved over to that site.

What a mess - this Fastrade site is crap. I'm so pissed off I can hardly type this message. NV was such a brilliant trading tool and now we've got this. What the hell are they playing at. Couldn't those numbskulls at Charlse Stanley see that the NV site was much superior to their own and use that instead and just stick their Fastrade badge onto it.

Any ex-NV users please let me know what your thoughts are today.

I intend to email this thread to Fastrade at the end of the day to let them know what we think - so please write down all you can about what you think of Fastrade.

Maybe, just maybe we can convince them to use the NV platform instead of of this junk, although it is a long shot and we will probably end up leaving in search of a better service.

In that respect please give recommendatios of other services you may have found which you feel are as good as NV.


LIST OF THOSE WISHING TO LEAVE FASTRADE:

1. Guy Sands

List of those pissed off with guysands for spamming threads on this site

1. zzaxx99

Don't worry about it zzaxx99 - guysands is obvious having a really bad time and is really pissed off!

guysands - rather than spamming threads, which as you see does piss others off - all you need to do is is post ttt (to the top) replies, on your thread and hopefully someone will eventually join in!

I agree that NV was a great site.

I left when they started making, what I considered, unreasonable conditions. If others did the same it will have contributed to their problems!

I hadn't trded with them at that point, but was on the point of using them as my second string!


Fly by Night

Red

I'm not spamming because I'm not selling anything.

If it offends you then ignore it.

This is for ex NV users.

Doesn't matter whether you're selling or not - if you post the same message to multiple threads you're thread-spamming - and all you achieve is to get people annoyed with you.

List of those pissed off with guysands for spamming threads on this site

1. zzaxx99

List of those pissed off with guysands for spamming threads on this site

1. zzaxx99

See - annoying reading the same thing over and over again, isn't it?

GUYSANDS - I agree! Fastrade is not a patch on NV.
Ample (http://www.iii.co.uk) isn't bad - 10 flat fee for dealing UK stocks and no account fees. I've not used it yet but it looks like a cheaper alternative.

I agree - it's a totally hopeless site today. Maybe it will improve but NV were super. Come on somebody - where can we go from here. Let's hope that the FasTrade site is not going to be the best alternative to NV.
I am deeply unhappy.

Tradman and seawatcher,

Join us over on ADVFN free BB site.

I've started a thread over there as I was getting bad vibes from dimwits like zzaxx over here (no such problems on a decent BB like ADVFN).

I will send you the link.

When you read all the posts over there (over 100 of them) you'll understand the gravity of the problem and that you are not alone in your dismay.

Your comments would be greatly appreciated as we are currently bombarding the big wigs at Durlacher and Charles Stanley (parent companies) with emails of discontent.

follow this link:

http://www.advfn.com/cmn/fbb/thread.php3?id=5083256

you may have to subscribe to get in but it's free much like this one.

If you have any problems then just go to advfn.com, subscribe and look for the thread unfer the epic NV.

See you there!

re: no such problem

There was a complaint made about you (not by me, FWIW) thread-spamming on ADVFN as well. When you do things that get annoy people, surprisingly you don't get a terribly positive response from them.

Wouldn't a non-dimwit have looked at the fastrade site before converting and made a decision about whether to go there or somewhere else?

Been through the same thing myself with DLJdirect - was offered TDWatercloset as a destination, but fortunately, as I'm not a complete dimwit, I decided not to take the default and went to a much better site - in my case, ComDirect, though iDealing look pretty good, and many people seem to like E*Trade now.

Used Fastrade 4 years ago - I thought it was utter shite then, though it has allegedly got better.

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I'm so fed up I'm considering starting a follow up site, the competition seems dire. Anyone interested?

I used NV for three years and wqas easily the best information site on the web- had a few limitations but the presentation was superb. I am deeply unhappy and laternatives are not anywhere near as good, moneyam and advfn about best alterantes

Know how you feel Tookeybr.

I have felt deeply unhappy this week. NV going has been a true loss.

JRM

Yes, I could be.

We always have a listening ear here on MoneyAM so what features are you missing and maybe we can help plug some gaps.

Mike

PS If you want to do this offline just email me: mike@moneyam.com

Not sure guy will look in much more after he was "literally hounded with complaints to the extent that [he] gave up there!".

On a thread with 18 posts.

Sensitive soul, eh?

As far as I can make out amongst the wildly over-the-top ranting, on the advfn thread that he's mostly decamped to, most of the N-V users want to have everything from one site - prices, research, news, trading, portfolio, alerts, watchlists etc.

Why this all has to be from one site, I have no idea - the combination of an online broker, plus this place or advfn would fulfil 99.9% of their needs, IMHO.