Quote Originally Posted by 100101 View Post
After putting up with excessive asb difficulties which have got a lot worse this year contacted ASB.
They said that they prefer that Microsoft Explorer! is used.

Well sorrry but I prefer Firefox which doesn't seem to handle ASB well.

Looking to move to Direct Broking which seems pretty near the same as ASB except:-

It looks a slightly better deal on brokerage charges - better maximums.

And while Asb allow Ozzy dollars to be withdrawn as Ozzy dollars from ones cash management AU$ fund (for the next Ozzy Holiday) from any of their branches, whereas it seems that Direct require one to move ozzy dollars to NZ dollars and then Buy Ozzy dollars from the proceeds, which doesn't look good.

Anyone know any other differences between ASB v Direct broking online share-trading sites??
Previously used to Direct Broking and then now using ASB.
The DB site was ok but ASB is pretty useless by comparison. Things I find poor with ASB are:
- Doesn't automatically update a portfolio. (completely ridiculous)
- Some trade data is lost. For instance in the history it does not record the price on bought/sold for. You have to go searching for the emails sent to get the information
- There are strange data processing problems when executing a trade it hangs with "spinning wheel" so you don't know if the trade has been placed or not (it seems that it has)