The UK is spoiled for choice when it comes to great crowdfunding platforms (there’s a thread on that) and while we chose to return using Crowdcube for many reasons, the most important is that we’ve been with them from day 1 and all of our crowdfunding investors are already members on the platform.
I’m fantasizing about a Crowdcube x Seedrs x Freetrade in the future, it could be the greatest crowdfunding crossover event in history.
Re the bid/ask spread, there is absolutely not a hidden commission in there. Check out our best execution policy, we go out to the market to get the best price we can for our customers and make nothing on the spread. No payment-for-order-flow or other BS, either. The price we display in the app is an indicative midpoint from our data provider (a dual bid/ask price would be only indicative, too) as we don’t actually know the price we’ll get for you until we go out to the market with your order.