RE: How did people get in before ipo13 Mar 2021 22:57
However due to the IPO being 13 times oversubscribed, very few people got an amount even close to what they asked for.
If you asked for £500 worth you would have got your full allocation. However investors in the IPO only received 2.85% of any amount that you asked for over the £500 threshold. Eg. If you asked for £10,000 worth you'd have have only got £770.75 worth.
In reality, if you wanted a decent amount, then the best time to buy was earlier this week when you could have bought at about 9p per share.
Not all IPO's are so massively oversubscribed, therefore it is worth registering with Primary Bid and downloading their app so that you receive information on all IPO's and other company placings.
You could for instance have participated in the very recent Argo Blockchain placing at 200p and sold once they were transferred to your sharedealing account at around 240p - an immediate 20% profit.
Be aware that the share dealing account that you register with Primary Bid CANNOT be an ISA account, due to tax regulations.