In a SIPC liquidation, as I read the law, and I didn't see anything to the contrary, that pointed to any legal authority for customers to elect a trustee.
"I said to Dave Williams [caretaker manager at the time of the liquidation] 'I can't sit here and watch these people coming in, taking notes, writing things down and putting labels on things, because if someone doesn't come in with the money, we've had it'.
[Update: As Eileen Burbidge, a prominent investor, pointed out on Twitter, depending on liquidation preferences, I could be flat wrong here.
So after reading about the financial travails that forced the trendy online apparel company Boo.com into liquidation last month, I wondered if I might find some online bargains.
Or, as Chris Seman, president of Caring Transitions, a relocation and estate liquidation company, said, "I think parents are trying to duplicate their home for their kids".
"I don't think there should be a liquidation of the diaspora, I don't think Zionism is the only way for Jews to live, but I also admire much of what Israel has achieved.
Suzy Hall, co-ordinator of the campaign group Unfairpak, said that the matter was not closed, writing in a web posting: "The liquidation committee, of which I form a part, will be meeting with the liquidators in order to decide what further steps shall now be taken following up on their investigation into Farepak's demise.
By April 1972, Ink was in liquidation, but the women I met there sent me on my way.
