{"id":1656,"date":"2008-07-11T09:06:08","date_gmt":"2008-07-11T15:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sequence-inc.com\/fraudfiles\/?p=1656"},"modified":"2008-07-12T10:58:17","modified_gmt":"2008-07-12T16:58:17","slug":"overstockcom-finds-one-more-way-to-sell-less","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/overstockcom-finds-one-more-way-to-sell-less\/","title":{"rendered":"Overstock.com finds one more way to sell less"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Overstock.com (NASDAQ:OSTK), the perpetual money-loser run by trust fund baby Patrick Byrne (who doesn&#8217;t really have to care if the company&#8217;s investors lose all their money), has found another way to sell less. The latest big announcement is that they&#8217;ll<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/business\/ci_9846446\"> stop selling anything with fur<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span id=\"slt_site\"><span id=\"slt_article\">However, Overstock.com&#8217;s decision comes during an upswing in demand for fur. Halting its retail sales will be costly. According to Byrne, Overstock.com estimates it will lose up to $5 million in pelt revenues. <\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What&#8217;s another $5 million for a company that&#8217;s been bleeding red ink since it went public? Patrick Byrne, thanks for providing non-stop entertainment. <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/tracy\" rel=\"tag\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/coenen\" rel=\"tag\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/tracy+coenen\" rel=\"tag\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/tracy+l+coenen\" rel=\"tag\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/cpa+mba+cfe\" rel=\"tag\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/tracy+l+coenen+cpa+mba+cfe\" rel=\"tag\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/tracy+coenen+cpa+mba+cfe\" rel=\"tag\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/tracy+coenen+cpa\" rel=\"tag\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/tracy+coenen+cfe\" rel=\"tag\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/fraud+investigation\" rel=\"tag\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/fraud+investigator\" rel=\"tag\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/sequence\" rel=\"tag\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/sequence+inc\" rel=\"tag\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/fraud+examiner\" rel=\"tag\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/fraud\" rel=\"tag\"> <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/essentials+of+corporate+fraud\" rel=\"tag\"> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overstock.com (NASDAQ:OSTK), the perpetual money-loser run by trust fund baby Patrick Byrne (who doesn&#8217;t really have to care if the company&#8217;s investors lose all their money), has found another way to sell less. The latest big announcement is that they&#8217;ll [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fraud-news-stories"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Z0e-qI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}