Hi sports fans.

Just checking in here after a long absence, and a cursory glance tells me that the shills are back making noise, hardly worth responding to that I can tell, but there it is. Since I am need nore more than 2.5 seconds of looking at any of their stuff to pick up the gist, and am unwilling to spent more than that reading it, I will practice my customary method of giving short answers that the honest guys here can use in responding to their twaddle as they see fit.

From a glance, it seems that the elements of the party line that they are flogging is that I am a bad guy because: I post here, I do not post here, something about inventory, and something about the SEC subpoena that I simultaneously crowed about in a press release while taking steps to hide (if they are to be believed).

So, in order: the bad guys who complain that I occasionally drop by and post here ought to fight it out with the bad guys who complain that I rarely drop by to answer their twaddle. (Of course, it could be that they already know each other, or even, that they even use the same computer, in which case it may turn out, as Gary Weiss once tried to explain, that it was his uncle and cousin variously using his computer without letting him know). Inventory: our inventory has conservative reserves against it, the calculation is thoroughly reviewed by PriceWaterhouse every quarter, and in fact I think the reserves are really ample. The full story on that SEC stuff that I have been hiding by celebrating it publicly for a year can be read here: http://forums.auctions.overstock.com/viewtopic.php?t=17289&sid=30eab0e680ab394832d08efd53e23b4e

That should take care of them for now. See you guys in another month or so. Keep up the good fight. Illegitimi non carborundum and all that.

Patrick