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Posted Wednesday, July 5, 2006, at 6:02 PM ET
...So you might as well hang onto them to sell on eBay.
No such instructions were ever posted, as best I can tell, because this is an imaginary problem.
i.e., held in the name of your broker, as most brokers do. Presumably your broker has a paper trail showing you own the stock.

Posted Wednesday, July 5, 2006, at 6:02 PM ET
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