One day, after not using my old comsec account for YEARS (2-3 years maybe more), I was messing around with it to see what was new, I wanted to see if was still active, there was no money in my old CBA account since it didn't even exist anymore (so couldn't imagine it would work), so I entered an order and hit the button - well buggar me sideways sally, the sucker immediately went through! Since I live in Japan I didn't even have any cash in Australia anymore either. I had three days to settle and on the last day I managed to transfer some $ into my ST George account and do a B-Pay thing to settle (had to call comsec to get the B-Pay number since the statement would have gone to my old address). Well, turned out good, it was BHP and it went up quite nicely, sold them soon after for a few hundred bucks profit minus comsec's ridiculously high commissions.
Was that a boring story? Sorry. Did I tell you about that day my granmama made me some vege soup and forgot to put the stock in it ....