RE: Offer declared unconditional with 77.526% on 1st close4 Nov 2020 00:23
Gerard, it appears I have made a bit of a screwup with my corporate action instruction on the Barclays website.
I had thought that I had elected to accept the offer on both my share dealing account and my ISA account. When I saw your tweet this morning reminding people to make sure they had voted before the closing date, I decided to double check that I had voted online.
But it turns out that my ISA holding of 1m shares I had voted to reject the offer. I have no idea why, other than fat fingers at my end of the keyboard! I telephoned Barclays this morning before the offer had been declared and asked if Barclays could reverse my decision for me....they came back and told me because it had been done using the Crest system, the 30th Oct was the cutoff date and my vote couldn't be changed.
In light of the 2 week extension you announced today, do you think I will be able to reverse my vote now and accept the offer? Does this give people a second chance?