<prompt> Human: I am the owner of the some shares in a company that will supposedly be going public in the near future and will be trading otc. I have a brokerage account with tradeking, but they said in order to get that physical certificate into my account with them, they were going to charge a crapton on the front end and a bunch on the back end. Is this common? Anybody have any suggestions as to one whose pricing might be more favorable? Tradeking has been good for everything else except for penny stocks which they also charge a lot for.  <response>: call up brokerages and ask what they charge. 