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I am Italian AND a shareholder
You are so right, it was very difficult.
At first i went to my bank (Monte dei Paschi) and asked someone - who didn't know either Eurodisney shares exist - how to do. I was given hundreds of papers to fill, i did, was sent to another office just to be told you can not buy shares in Paris for less than 1000 euros a time
I came back home fuming
As my partner is English - and he still owns an english bank account - we tried to buy them via Natwest; we were sent papers to fill and send back, we did, then we were asked for more papers one of them being his Italian Bank account statement signed by the British ambassador in Italy
I was furious
when something sprung in my mind
as i have read this here
http://corporate.disneylandparis.com/shareholders/faq/index.xhtml
- Bearer shares or Administered registered shares:
Contact your financial intermediary and explain that you wish to buy shares in Euro Disney S.C.A. The intermediary will give you all the information to place your order.
- Pure registered shares:
Please contact the agent named by Euro Disney S.C.A. to manage its registered accounts: CACEIS Corporate Trust.
so i sent an email straight to CACEIS
CT-relation-investisseurs@caceis.com
*Dear Sirs,
my name is Giulia Pagni and i live in Siena - Italy, i would like to buy 20 shares of EURODISNEY SCA to join the shareholders club (i am planning to book a trip to DLRP asap) but it seems pretty impossible as my bank in Siena (Monte dei Paschi) told me i cant buy anything less than 1.000 euros shares in Paris and my partner is English and, even he still has a bank account there with Natwest, they dont sound very keen on dealing with him (they keep sending over forms and forms to fill).
Any chance that i can buy them from you and pay with my VISA?*
The very next day i got their reply:
*Dear Mrs. Pagni,
Reference is made to your request regarding the purchase of EURODISNEY shares.
In order to manage your trade, please find enclose a market order form you have to send us back duly completed and signed with a copy of your passport. For your first purchase, we are asking you a provision of 80% of the gross amount of the trade by cheque or wire transfer (our bank details are enclosed).
Once we receive your complete file, your account is created and the day after, we manage your instruction. Three business days after the execution date, we send you an operation advice with the amount of the compensation you have to credit on our account. As soon as the transaction is complete, the shares are recorded at your name on our books.
The brokerage fees are 0.75% of the gross amount of the trade with a minimum perception of 10,70 .
Your file can be sent as a scanned image to the general email address of CACEIS Corporate Trust shareholder relationship (CT-contact@caceis.com), by fax at the following number: +33 1 49 08 05 80, or by post at the address below:
CACEIS Corporate Trust
Service Relation Investisseurs
14 rue Rouget de Lisle
92130 Issy les Moulineaux
France
Should you have any further query, do not hesitate to contact us.
Best regards,
Relation Investisseurs / TS*
I can not say since then everything went smoothly, my italian bank took about four days to send them money, as it was not possible to say *before* how much it would had costed me, i missed a few euros and had a job sending them because my bank said it was such a small amount of money it was not worth it but eventually...........I GOT MY SHARES CERTIFICATE!!
The whole thing took form Feb 24th 2008 to March 13th 2008.
Hope it helps!!
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