Selling Shares

[mailsortdreams]

Having retired from RM for 10 years, I can't find my share certificate and don't know if I ever had any! The Form of Acceptance for the IDS Offer requires a certificate to be included. Can I sell my shares without a certificate?

[pinstripe]

I sold mine through the RM app a few weeks ago, all you need is the log in details

[qwerty2]

Having retired from RM for 10 years, I can't find my share certificate and don't know if I ever had any! The Form of Acceptance for the IDS Offer requires a certificate to be included. Can I sell my shares without a certificate?

If they’re the shares from Leighton/crozier/consignia era they are worthless

[postslippete]

Ah yes, I remember those "phantom shares". I think it was the start of the road towards what RM really want at the time - Privatisation. Those shares expired worthless to anyone that had them.

[Londonsburning]

Ah yes, I remember those "phantom shares". I think it was the start of the road towards what RM really want at the time - Privatisation. Those shares expired worthless to anyone that had them.

Unless you were one of the lucky ones to take VR just after we were given them... Those guys got over 2K for them back in 2008.

[Frankie15]

Having retired from RM for 10 years, I can't find my share certificate and don't know if I ever had any! The Form of Acceptance for the IDS Offer requires a certificate to be included. Can I sell my shares without a certificate?

I don't think you need the certificate. If you have received a letter recently, which I did, outlining why we should accept the sale of our shares before the 25th, just follow the link and then type in the voting number and code at the bottom of the letter. I did that on Sunday as it seems we are just being forced into selling them before the inevitable sale of the company. It was pretty straightforward and said we'd receive any money in 3 weeks

[NWpostie]

Having retired from RM for 10 years, I can't find my share certificate and don't know if I ever had any! The Form of Acceptance for the IDS Offer requires a certificate to be included. Can I sell my shares without a certificate?

If they’re the shares from Leighton/crozier/consignia era they are worthless

The colleague share certificate may be worth something to a collector, there are people who collect these things like railway enthusiast collect railway stuff.

[pinstripe]

I don't think you need the certificate. If you have received a letter recently, which I did, outlining why we should accept the sale of our shares before the 25th, just follow the link and then type in the voting number and code at the bottom of the letter. I did that on Sunday as it seems we are just being forced into selling them before the inevitable sale of the company. It was pretty straightforward and said we'd receive any money in 3 weeks

The shares are currently worth 365.5. That’s 2.5p less than the offer price. If you were to sell them yourself, for 100 shares you would get £2.50 less than the offer price, for 1000 shares, £25 less, but you’d have the money in your bank in less than a week.

[Ady128]

I don't think you need the certificate. If you have received a letter recently, which I did, outlining why we should accept the sale of our shares before the 25th, just follow the link and then type in the voting number and code at the bottom of the letter. I did that on Sunday as it seems we are just being forced into selling them before the inevitable sale of the company. It was pretty straightforward and said we'd receive any money in 3 weeks

The shares are currently worth 365.5. That’s 2.5p less than the offer price. If you were to sell them yourself, for 100 shares you would get £2.50 less than the offer price, for 1000 shares, £25 less, but you’d have the money in your bank in less than a week.

But don’t Equiniti charge a fortune whereas waiting a bit there’ll be no fees?

[Sean06]

I don't think you need the certificate. If you have received a letter recently, which I did, outlining why we should accept the sale of our shares before the 25th, just follow the link and then type in the voting number and code at the bottom of the letter. I did that on Sunday as it seems we are just being forced into selling them before the inevitable sale of the company. It was pretty straightforward and said we'd receive any money in 3 weeks

The shares are currently worth 365.5. That’s 2.5p less than the offer price. If you were to sell them yourself, for 100 shares you would get £2.50 less than the offer price, for 1000 shares, £25 less, but you’d have the money in your bank in less than a week.

But don’t Equiniti charge a fortune whereas waiting a bit there’ll be no fees?

About £20

[mailsortdreams]

I don't think you need the certificate. If you have received a letter recently, which I did, outlining why we should accept the sale of our shares before the 25th, just follow the link and then type in the voting number and code at the bottom of the letter. I did that on Sunday as it seems we are just being forced into selling them before the inevitable sale of the company. It was pretty straightforward and said we'd receive any money in 3 weeks

The shares are currently worth 365.5. That’s 2.5p less than the offer price. If you were to sell them yourself, for 100 shares you would get £2.50 less than the offer price, for 1000 shares, £25 less, but you’d have the money in your bank in less than a week.

But don’t Equiniti charge a fortune whereas waiting a bit there’ll be no fees?

About £20

They charged me £70 transaction fee plus £60 lost certificate fee

[mailsortdreams]

I sold mine through the RM app a few weeks ago, all you need is the log in details

Thanks, got the cheque yesterday