Selling Shares - Help

[R0B75]

I received a letter yesterday telling me I had a modest amount of shares in Standard Life, this was from a previous job about 10 years ago that I had completely forgotten about.

Anyway the letter states that I can use the broker services free of charge up to November the 24th to cash in these shares. I'm probably going to do this but having never done this type of thing before I wanted to see if anyone has had any experience they could share with me on selling shares.

I have looked at the share price and the price quoted on the letter is the shares were worth £2.46 but today they seem to be worth about £2.10 each, yesterday dropping 19 pence.

Should I wait to see if the price goes back up or cach in now before they drop even further????

 

[R0B75]

Main reason for thinking about selling them is that xmas is nearly here and some extra cash would be good.

I have more than 200 shares apparently so whilst it's not a great amount it is free money in a sense because it was the employer who contributed on everyone's behalf.

The shares are for Standard Life is anyone is interested.

There was a story in our local paper about lots of people in Derby who have unclaimed shares in Standard Life, reportedly someone has shared worth an estimated 100k. I so wished that was me.