Agreed, you can't trade ARU, As E-trade informed me they could trade my currently held shares in ARU as a trade in the equivalent shares in K if I wished. They would do this manually (that's why you need to speak to them - it can not be done on their trading platform).

If the brokers that you spoke to are not aware that K is in the process of an ARU buyout then these people are not up to speed. The E-trade rep knew all the details.

BTW, the E-trade rep offered to process a sell order when I talked to him earlier today but I'm not prepared to sell at this time.