• Overstock.com’s “Unusual” Financial Statements and Disclosures

    Supporters of Patrick Byrne and Overstock.com (NASDAQ:OSTK) can’t seem to get over the fact that the company has never turned a profit and that it is being investigated by the SEC (despite false assertions in the most recent conference call […]

  • Materiality at Overstock.com Inc.

    Sam Antar made this nice find in regard to materiality, one of many issues at Overstock.com (NASDAQ:OSTK). You see… materiality is an issue because, in addition to “unusual” material items at Overstock, we’ve seen several immaterial “unusual” items as well. […]

  • Overstock.com: Year-End Revenues Fall Far Short of Byrne’s Hype

    If Patrick Byrne is good at anything, it’s hyping Overstock.com (NASDAQ:OSTK) when the company is not deserving of the hype. To hear him tell it in real time, everything is rosy and the company is doing stellar and investors will […]

  • Overstock “Executive” Playing on the Internet Again

    I put the word executive in quotes because I don’t think anyone in their right mind really considers Judd Bagley an executive at Overstock.com (NASDQ: OSTK). He is the smearmeister for Patrick Byrne. They like to call him an investigative […]

  • More on the Overstock.com Accounting Shenanigans

    This year, Patrick Byrne and company have taken a liking to discussing the Overstock.com (NASDAQ: OSTK) financials using non-GAAP measures. This means that they present certain financial figures that are not computed in accordance with GAAP (accounting rules). Who cares? […]

  • Patrick Byrne and his three stooges

    Last week, Overstock.com CEO Patrick Bryne celebrated an apparent victory in court. Overstock is suing Gradient Analytics and Rocker Partners over some negative reports that were issued about Overstock. Of course, the negative reports weren’t negative because Overstock is a […]

  • Judd Bagley antics: Part 3

    ScipioAfricanus then brings us to the story of SlimVirgin. SlimVirgin is an administrator for Wikipedia. Judd Bagley has been known to sock puppet on Wikipedia with many screen names, and the administrators have disallowed these things. (They even went so […]

  • Overstock.com and its phony earnings figures

    Today on the White Collar Fraud Blog, Sam Antar has the first part of a three part series on the inventory numbers at Overstock.com. It’s curious how Overstock’s inventory numbers always seem to create more questions than they answer. Sam […]

  • Patrick Byrne, Overstock.com CEO has surprised me

    After all the corporate crimes I’ve seen in the last 13-or-so years, it takes a lot to surprise me. Really, it does. But Patrick Byrne, the nutty CEO of Overstock.com has suprised me. Now, I’d like to think that my […]

  • Judd Bagley is threatening people who speak out against the management and deception at Overstock.com?

    As this site and the blogs of Gary Weiss, Sam Antar, Jeff Matthews, Scipio Africanus (pen name) have often discussed, there is an ongoing campaign to expose the mangement of Overstock.com. People want Patrick Byrne and company to come clean […]