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i am a small retail investor. can i invest in the facebook ipo at the ipo price? [duplicate]
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i have an account with etrade. earlier this week i got an offer to participate in the ipo proper (at the ipo price). if charles schwab doesn't give you the opportunity, that's a shortcoming of them as a brokerage firm; there are definitely ways for retail investors to invest in it, wise investment or no. (okay, technically it wasn't an offer to participate, it was a notice that participation was possibly available, various securities-law disclaimers etc withstanding. "this web site is neither an offer to sell nor a solicitation to buy these securities. the offer is by prospectus only. this web site contains a preliminary prospectus for each offering." etc etc).
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