| GiveAshare.com® beats the pants off of brokers and custom framers on both price and service.
In fact, we have many brokers who refer clients to us to buy stock
as gifts AND brokers who use us to buy their gifts.
Our price includes a "GIFTize™" fee which is our service fee for acquiring and registering the stock and assembling the gift. This is much more service than a broker provides and yet our fee is much lower than what they charge.
Brokers charge a minimum commission AND a certificate delivery fee and most require a minimum account balance and have inactivity or annual fees. Check out these examples of discount broker fees and note that full service broker fees would be even higher:
| Company |
Commission |
Certificate Delivery
Fee |
Total Fee* |
Account Required? |
Custom
Frame/Mat Available? |
Personalized Plaque
Available? |
| Schwab (4/08) |
$13 |
$50 |
$63 |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Scottrade (4/08) |
$7 |
$95 |
$102 |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Fidelity(4/08) |
$20 |
$100 |
$120 |
Yes |
No |
No |
| GiveAshare.com® |
Combined |
$39 |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Company |
Price* |
| Michaels |
$48 |
| Aaron Brothers |
$53 |
| GiveAshare.com® |
$30 |
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Have you checked out how much it
costs to frame and mat something lately?
Stock certificates come in an odd shape (8" x 12") making framing/matting more challenging. Our premium frame/mat style includes more-expensive acrylic. Our mats are acid free and have been color matched to the certificate. When getting comps, we found that most of the custom framers had a limited black-core mat color selection and in many cases we were not able to find a comparable color that matched the certificate. We did our best to select frames/mats of comparable quality for the comparison to the left. |
View frames to see more. See
how we price.
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