RE: CNEL SALE PRICE 50% OFF8 Jul 2020 16:15
On a personal level no I haven't had experience, from what I have gathered on here through people sharing their interactions with brokers, it seems like several things are in play:
1: They are forced to sell up as the broker refuses to hold them. (Probably driving the dip in price), for some reason a few brokers forced this based on a deadline date of the 8th rather than the 14th. Barclays were one of these
2: You can trade them in HK but you have to wait 3-6 weeks for certificates to arrive first, and the cost goes up as you have higher telephone sales costs A J Bell, II etc
3: They will lodge the shares with another third party broker and then they can be traded at a higher costs (HSBC have been named a few times)
4: Your broker will hold the shares but you can trade until you move them to a broker than can sell
5: Open a broker account in HK such as Silver Bricks (Then trade online)
3: Sell them yourself ahead of the move.