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Bed Bath & Beyond (online retailer)

October 20, 2023

This article is about the online retailer formerly known as Overstock. For the defunct big-box retailer of the same name, see Bed Bath & Beyond (big-box retailer). For the Will & Grace episode titled "Bed, Bath & Beyond", see Will & Grace (season 4).

Overstock.com, Inc., doing business as Bed Bath & Beyond, is an American internet retailer selling primarily furniture headquartered in Midvale, Utah.[2] The company sells home decor, furniture, bedding, and many other goods that are closeout merchandise.[3]

Overstock.com, Inc.
Bed Bath & Beyond
TypePublic
Industry
  • Retail
  • Technology
Predecessor
Founded1999; 24 years ago (1999)
FounderPatrick M. Byrne
Headquarters
Midvale, Utah
,
U.S.
Key people
Jonathan E. Johnson CEO
Revenue US$1.93 billion (2022)
US$27 million (2022)
−US$35 million (2022)
Total assets US$879 million (2022)
Total equity US$646 million (2022)
Number of employees
1,050 (2022)
Websitebedbathandbeyond.com
Footnotes / references
[1]

In 2023, the company acquired the name and trademarks of bankrupt big-box retailer Bed Bath & Beyond, rebranding itself under that name in August 2023.[4][5]

Business model and management Edit

Part of Overstock.com's merchandise is purchased by or manufactured specifically for the company. Among their products are handmade goods produced for Overstock by workers in developing nations.[6][7] The company also manages the inventory supply for other retailers.

History Edit

The Company was founded as D2:Discounts Direct in May 5, 1997 by Robert Brazell. The company went bankrupt in 1999. Patrick M. Byrne and Jason Lindsey acquired the company and renamed it as Overstock.com.[8] The company initially sold exclusively surplus and returned merchandise on an online e-commerce marketplace, liquidating the inventories of at least 18 failed dot-com companies at below-wholesale prices.[9]

In May 2002, Overstock held an IPO at a per-share price of $13. Amazon was one of the investors in Overstock.com that exited at the time of IPO.[10]

In addition to its direct retail sales, Overstock.com began offering online auctions on its website in 2004, known as Overstock.com Marketplace and later O.co Marketplace. This service was retired in July 2011.[11]

 
The Overstock logo used from 2017 until its 2023 rebrand under the Bed Bath & Beyond name.

After initially relying solely on word-of-mouth marketing from customers,[12] the company turned to distinctive television advertisements starring German actress Sabine Ehrenfeld.[13][14] Later, they would employ other advertising spokespersons.

In July 2006, John J. Byrne, the father of Overstock's chief executive, resigned from the board of directors after a public airing of the elder Byrne's unhappiness with his son's actions against naked short-selling.[15] In August 2008, Jack Byrne said that after "much initial skepticism" he believed his son was "right all along" about the battle and lawsuits with short-sellers and analysts.[16] In 2010 the elder Byrne returned to the Overstock.com board of directors.

In early 2007, John A. Fisher and Ray Groves resigned from the Overstock board of directors over disagreement with the company's prime broker suit.[17][18]

On January 2, 2008,[19] Overstock announced that cofounder Jason Lindsey had resigned as president, COO, and as a director of Overstock effective from December 31, 2007. Byrne said Lindsey had "played a decisive role getting [Overstock] back on track" after "I screwed it up a couple years ago".[20] Overstock stock dropped to a four-year low following the announcement,[21] which an analyst for investment bank Broadpoint Capital described as a "key loss".[22]

After achieving significant growth and profits in some early quarters, the company achieved a profit of $7.7 million in 2009[23] and reported its first billion-dollar year in 2010.

In 2011, revenues dropped 5 percent over a two-month penalty period imposed by Google. According to the Associated Press, Overstock set up fake websites linking back to its own site. Overstock said it was penalized in part for a practice of encouraging college and university websites to post links to Overstock pages so that students and faculty could receive discounts. As a result of the Google penalty, search results for certain products dropped in Google rankings.[24][25]

The business started rebranding in early 2011, as "O.co", to simplify and unify its international operations[26] but interrupted this effort a few months later, citing consumer confusion over the new name, which utilized a Colombian country domain.[27]

During the same year, Overstock.com acquired naming rights to the former Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum, renaming it Overstock.com Coliseum.[28] The Coliseum was later rebranded O.co Coliseum, in keeping with Overstock's then-rebranding as O.co (in April 2016, the name O.co Coliseum was dropped in favor of Oakland-Alameda Coliseum).

In 2013, Overstock began promoting increased immigration. Overstock president Jonathan Johnson told the Los Angeles Times that his firm had struggled to hire enough computer programmers and software developers to expand the business. "We pay more, and they are still hard to fill", he said. "We need to be more free in letting people in. That helps us solve our border problem. No one goes through the window of a house if they can ring the doorbell and come in the front door."[29]

In 2014, Overstock began developing software that would allow it to distribute corporate stock online instead of using traditional methods like the New York Stock Exchange or NASDAQ.[30]

Byrne took an indefinite leave of absence in April 2016, because of hepatitis C complications. The general counsel, Mitch Edwards, was named acting CEO.[31] In July 2016, Byrne returned as CEO.

On August 22, 2019, CEO Patrick Byrne resigned his CEO and board seat at Overstock via a 1,600 word email. In the email he admitted to a romantic affair with Maria Butina, an unregistered foreign agent of Russia, but Byrne did not provide additional information on how this prompted his resignation.[32][33] Shortly thereafter, Jonathan E. Johnson became CEO.[34]

The company announced a digital dividend with a record date of September 23, 2019. For each 10 shares of traditional stock held, and investor will be entitled to 1 share of Digital Voting Series A-1 Preferred Stock. Initially the digital shares will only be tradable on the PRO Securities alternative trading system, which licenses its technology from tZero, an overstock subsidiary focused on blockchain technology.[35]

Worldstock Edit

In 2001 Overstock set up the Worldstock division, to showcase the work of artisans from around the world.[36][37] By 2006 there were approximately 6,000 producers contributing.[38][39]

Bitcoin Edit

On January 9, 2014, Overstock.com became the first major retailer to start accepting bitcoin as payments for its goods.[40] In the first 22 hours, they received over 800 orders worth US$126,000 in bitcoin.[41] This represents a 4.33% increase in sales from their normal income of $3 million per day.[42]

As of March 13, 2014, Overstock bitcoin income had shrunk to under 1% of their normal daily cash intake.[43]

In a community interview with social media site Reddit on May 3, 2014, in response to a question to the Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne about the percentage of revenue and transactions paid for in bitcoin, Byrne responded that the percentage was "Tiny. <.1%".[44] In mid-2014 Overstock.com announced that bitcoin sales were averaging $300,000 per month and that the company expected bitcoin sales to add 4 cents to the company's 2014 earnings per share.[45]

Despite at least $175 million in bitcoin or other blockchain investments, the firm never recorded any profits from those investments.[46][47]

Bed Bath & Beyond Edit

In June 2023, the company won a $21.5 million bid for Bed Bath & Beyond's intellectual property assets.[48] On June 29, 2023, it was announced that Overstock.com would be rebranding as Bed Bath & Beyond.[49]

Naked short selling controversy Edit

The company has received attention stemming from CEO Patrick Byrne's battle against alleged naked short selling of his company's shares. Beginning in 2005, Byrne has contended that a number of companies, including Overstock.com, have been the targets of this practice, which involves selling a stock short but without the usual step of initially borrowing or locating the shares. Byrne alleges that the practice circumvents safeguards of conventional shorting, and has been used in large schemes devised to profit from driving down the prices of companies' shares, in many cases leading to these companies' failure. With Overstock, Byrne contends that the company's longstanding appearance on the Regulation SHO Threshold Security list, an SEC-mandated list showing companies with a high number of "fails to deliver", along with high trading volumes that sometimes surpass total quantity of the company's stock, establish that it has been targeted by this practice.[50] Byrne's campaign has been controversial, including criticism in the financial press that Byrne is seeking to divert attention from Overstock's share price declines and failure to turn a profit.[51] New York Times columnist Joseph Nocera has said in 2006 that, "Except for a few fellow-traveling Web sites, where Mr. Byrne is viewed as a heroic figure, most people who understand the issue or have looked into it think it's pretty bogus."[52] Others have suggested that the problem is real, but that the SEC acts to prevent it and that it does not happen on any scale such as Byrne suggests. SEC Chairman Christopher Cox called abusive naked short selling "a fraud that the commission is bound to prevent and to punish."[53]

Overstock filed a lawsuit against the hedge fund Rocker Partners in 2005 for libel, unfair business practices and tortious interference, saying it colluded with a research firm, Gradient Analytics, in short-selling the company while paying Gradient Analytics to publish negative reports about Overstock.com and supplying pre-publication copies to Rocker. Naked short-selling was not alleged in that suit.[54] In a conference call with analysts in August 2005, a day after the suit was filed, Byrne said that "there's been a plan since we were in our teens to destroy our stock, drive it down to $6–10 ... and even a plan for how the company would then get whacked up." He said that the conspirators were part of a "Miscreants Ball", headed by a "Sith Lord", who he refused to identify but said "he's one of the master criminals from the 1980s." Byrne said the conspiracy included hedge funds, journalists, investigators, trial lawyers, the SEC, and Eliot Spitzer."[55] Gradient Analytics countersued, alleging Byrne waged a smear campaign.[56]

Rocker Partners, renamed Copper River Management, filed a counterclaim against Overstock in November 2007, alleging overstatement of profits, false projections, and misrepresentations about the company's ventures.[57] Copper River also alleges that Byrne tried to silence critics by suing them.[58][59][60][61] A portion of this suit was settled out of court on October 13, 2008 when Overstock.com and Gradient dropped the claims against each other after Gradient retracted allegations that Overstock's reporting methods did not comply with rules established by the FASB, stated they believed Overstock.com complied with GAAP standards, and that three directors were independent according to NASD standards, and apologized.[62][63] Byrne has said the apology and settlement "represents a great step forward in our case",[63] while Copper River's attorney stated that "If somehow this improved Overstock's case, then Gradient would admit to doing something wrong and they haven't", and that he expected the settlement to help Copper River's case.[64]

On December 8, 2009, it was announced that Copper River had reached an out of court settlement with Overstock. As part of the agreement, Copper River, which closed in December 2008, agreed to pay Overstock $5 million.[65] In a letter to his shareholders, Patrick Byrne said, "The good guys won". Copper River said in a statement that it continued to deny Overstock's allegations. Copper River managing general partner Marc Cohodes said "Although settlement deprives us of the ability to disprove Overstock's case and prosecute our counterclaims, we decided that the litigation costs did not justify passing up a practical way to end four-and-half years of meritless litigation by Overstock."[66]

In February 2007, Overstock.com launched a $3.5 billion lawsuit against Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and other large Wall Street firms, alleging a "massive illegal stock market manipulation scheme" involving naked short selling. Among its allegations, Overstock stated that since at least January 2005, naked short selling has accounted for large portions of Overstock stock, in some cases exceeding the 23.4 million total shares outstanding.[67] The lawsuit alleged that this had created "immense downward pressure" on share prices over time. Kerry Fields, associate professor of law and business ethics at the University of Southern California, said, "Byrne may be able to help set new law if he handles this right." Fields said, Byrne's "best approach now is probably to persuade the SEC, which continues to wander around the issue, or the government to serve subpoenas and let them decide whether or not his company was wronged."[68] John Coffee, director of the Center on Corporate Governance at Columbia University Law School, described it as overly ambitious and "extremely unpromising."[67] Two members of the Overstock.com board of directors, John Fisher and Ray Groves, resigned in disagreement over the lawsuit.[69][70]

In December 2010, all but two of the prime broker defendants settled out of court with Overstock for $4.4 million.[71] That same month, the company filed a motion seeking to amend its lawsuit against the remaining defendants—Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch—to include claims of RICO violations. The enhanced claims were based on evidence gained through discovery in the case.[72]

The RICO claim was dismissed at trial, and this was affirmed on appeal. The claim against Goldman was dismissed but Goldman subsequently settled a refiled suit. Merrill finally settled for $20 million in 2016.[73]

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October 20, 2023
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This article is about the online retailer formerly known as Overstock For the defunct big box retailer of the same name see Bed Bath amp Beyond big box retailer For the Will amp Grace episode titled Bed Bath amp Beyond see Will amp Grace season 4 A request that this article title be changed to Bed Bath amp Beyond is under discussion Please do not move this article until the discussion is closed Overstock com Inc doing business as Bed Bath amp Beyond is an American internet retailer selling primarily furniture headquartered in Midvale Utah 2 The company sells home decor furniture bedding and many other goods that are closeout merchandise 3 Overstock com Inc Trade nameBed Bath amp BeyondTypePublicTraded asNasdaq OSTKRussell 2000 componentIndustryRetailTechnologyPredecessorBed Bath amp Beyond big box retailer D2 Discount DirectFounded1999 24 years ago 1999 FounderPatrick M ByrneHeadquartersMidvale Utah U S Key peopleJonathan E Johnson CEORevenueUS 1 93 billion 2022 Operating incomeUS 27 million 2022 Net income US 35 million 2022 Total assetsUS 879 million 2022 Total equityUS 646 million 2022 Number of employees1 050 2022 Websitebedbathandbeyond wbr comFootnotes references 1 In 2023 the company acquired the name and trademarks of bankrupt big box retailer Bed Bath amp Beyond rebranding itself under that name in August 2023 4 5 Contents 1 Business model and management 2 History 2 1 Worldstock 2 2 Bitcoin 2 3 Bed Bath amp Beyond 3 Naked short selling controversy 4 See also 5 References 6 External linksBusiness model and management EditPart of Overstock com s merchandise is purchased by or manufactured specifically for the company Among their products are handmade goods produced for Overstock by workers in developing nations 6 7 The company also manages the inventory supply for other retailers History EditThe Company was founded as D2 Discounts Direct in May 5 1997 by Robert Brazell The company went bankrupt in 1999 Patrick M Byrne and Jason Lindsey acquired the company and renamed it as Overstock com 8 The company initially sold exclusively surplus and returned merchandise on an online e commerce marketplace liquidating the inventories of at least 18 failed dot com companies at below wholesale prices 9 In May 2002 Overstock held an IPO at a per share price of 13 Amazon was one of the investors in Overstock com that exited at the time of IPO 10 In addition to its direct retail sales Overstock com began offering online auctions on its website in 2004 known as Overstock com Marketplace and later O co Marketplace This service was retired in July 2011 11 nbsp The Overstock logo used from 2017 until its 2023 rebrand under the Bed Bath amp Beyond name After initially relying solely on word of mouth marketing from customers 12 the company turned to distinctive television advertisements starring German actress Sabine Ehrenfeld 13 14 Later they would employ other advertising spokespersons In July 2006 John J Byrne the father of Overstock s chief executive resigned from the board of directors after a public airing of the elder Byrne s unhappiness with his son s actions against naked short selling 15 In August 2008 Jack Byrne said that after much initial skepticism he believed his son was right all along about the battle and lawsuits with short sellers and analysts 16 In 2010 the elder Byrne returned to the Overstock com board of directors In early 2007 John A Fisher and Ray Groves resigned from the Overstock board of directors over disagreement with the company s prime broker suit 17 18 On January 2 2008 19 Overstock announced that cofounder Jason Lindsey had resigned as president COO and as a director of Overstock effective from December 31 2007 Byrne said Lindsey had played a decisive role getting Overstock back on track after I screwed it up a couple years ago 20 Overstock stock dropped to a four year low following the announcement 21 which an analyst for investment bank Broadpoint Capital described as a key loss 22 After achieving significant growth and profits in some early quarters the company achieved a profit of 7 7 million in 2009 23 and reported its first billion dollar year in 2010 In 2011 revenues dropped 5 percent over a two month penalty period imposed by Google According to the Associated Press Overstock set up fake websites linking back to its own site Overstock said it was penalized in part for a practice of encouraging college and university websites to post links to Overstock pages so that students and faculty could receive discounts As a result of the Google penalty search results for certain products dropped in Google rankings 24 25 The business started rebranding in early 2011 as O co to simplify and unify its international operations 26 but interrupted this effort a few months later citing consumer confusion over the new name which utilized a Colombian country domain 27 During the same year Overstock com acquired naming rights to the former Oakland Alameda County Coliseum renaming it Overstock com Coliseum 28 The Coliseum was later rebranded O co Coliseum in keeping with Overstock s then rebranding as O co in April 2016 the name O co Coliseum was dropped in favor of Oakland Alameda Coliseum In 2013 Overstock began promoting increased immigration Overstock president Jonathan Johnson told the Los Angeles Times that his firm had struggled to hire enough computer programmers and software developers to expand the business We pay more and they are still hard to fill he said We need to be more free in letting people in That helps us solve our border problem No one goes through the window of a house if they can ring the doorbell and come in the front door 29 In 2014 Overstock began developing software that would allow it to distribute corporate stock online instead of using traditional methods like the New York Stock Exchange or NASDAQ 30 Byrne took an indefinite leave of absence in April 2016 because of hepatitis C complications The general counsel Mitch Edwards was named acting CEO 31 In July 2016 Byrne returned as CEO On August 22 2019 CEO Patrick Byrne resigned his CEO and board seat at Overstock via a 1 600 word email In the email he admitted to a romantic affair with Maria Butina an unregistered foreign agent of Russia but Byrne did not provide additional information on how this prompted his resignation 32 33 Shortly thereafter Jonathan E Johnson became CEO 34 The company announced a digital dividend with a record date of September 23 2019 For each 10 shares of traditional stock held and investor will be entitled to 1 share of Digital Voting Series A 1 Preferred Stock Initially the digital shares will only be tradable on the PRO Securities alternative trading system which licenses its technology from tZero an overstock subsidiary focused on blockchain technology 35 Worldstock Edit In 2001 Overstock set up the Worldstock division to showcase the work of artisans from around the world 36 37 By 2006 there were approximately 6 000 producers contributing 38 39 Bitcoin Edit On January 9 2014 Overstock com became the first major retailer to start accepting bitcoin as payments for its goods 40 In the first 22 hours they received over 800 orders worth US 126 000 in bitcoin 41 This represents a 4 33 increase in sales from their normal income of 3 million per day 42 As of March 13 2014 Overstock bitcoin income had shrunk to under 1 of their normal daily cash intake 43 In a community interview with social media site Reddit on May 3 2014 in response to a question to the Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne about the percentage of revenue and transactions paid for in bitcoin Byrne responded that the percentage was Tiny lt 1 44 In mid 2014 Overstock com announced that bitcoin sales were averaging 300 000 per month and that the company expected bitcoin sales to add 4 cents to the company s 2014 earnings per share 45 Despite at least 175 million in bitcoin or other blockchain investments the firm never recorded any profits from those investments 46 47 Bed Bath amp Beyond Edit In June 2023 the company won a 21 5 million bid for Bed Bath amp Beyond s intellectual property assets 48 On June 29 2023 it was announced that Overstock com would be rebranding as Bed Bath amp Beyond 49 Naked short selling controversy Edit The template below Overly detailed is being considered for merging See templates for discussion to help reach a consensus This section may contain an excessive amount of intricate detail that may interest only a particular audience Please help by spinning off or relocating any relevant information and removing excessive detail that may be against Wikipedia s inclusion policy August 2023 Learn how and when to remove this template message The company has received attention stemming from CEO Patrick Byrne s battle against alleged naked short selling of his company s shares Beginning in 2005 Byrne has contended that a number of companies including Overstock com have been the targets of this practice which involves selling a stock short but without the usual step of initially borrowing or locating the shares Byrne alleges that the practice circumvents safeguards of conventional shorting and has been used in large schemes devised to profit from driving down the prices of companies shares in many cases leading to these companies failure With Overstock Byrne contends that the company s longstanding appearance on the Regulation SHO Threshold Security list an SEC mandated list showing companies with a high number of fails to deliver along with high trading volumes that sometimes surpass total quantity of the company s stock establish that it has been targeted by this practice 50 Byrne s campaign has been controversial including criticism in the financial press that Byrne is seeking to divert attention from Overstock s share price declines and failure to turn a profit 51 New York Times columnist Joseph Nocera has said in 2006 that Except for a few fellow traveling Web sites where Mr Byrne is viewed as a heroic figure most people who understand the issue or have looked into it think it s pretty bogus 52 Others have suggested that the problem is real but that the SEC acts to prevent it and that it does not happen on any scale such as Byrne suggests SEC Chairman Christopher Cox called abusive naked short selling a fraud that the commission is bound to prevent and to punish 53 Overstock filed a lawsuit against the hedge fund Rocker Partners in 2005 for libel unfair business practices and tortious interference saying it colluded with a research firm Gradient Analytics in short selling the company while paying Gradient Analytics to publish negative reports about Overstock com and supplying pre publication copies to Rocker Naked short selling was not alleged in that suit 54 In a conference call with analysts in August 2005 a day after the suit was filed Byrne said that there s been a plan since we were in our teens to destroy our stock drive it down to 6 10 and even a plan for how the company would then get whacked up He said that the conspirators were part of a Miscreants Ball headed by a Sith Lord who he refused to identify but said he s one of the master criminals from the 1980s Byrne said the conspiracy included hedge funds journalists investigators trial lawyers the SEC and Eliot Spitzer 55 Gradient Analytics countersued alleging Byrne waged a smear campaign 56 Rocker Partners renamed Copper River Management filed a counterclaim against Overstock in November 2007 alleging overstatement of profits false projections and misrepresentations about the company s ventures 57 Copper River also alleges that Byrne tried to silence critics by suing them 58 59 60 61 A portion of this suit was settled out of court on October 13 2008 when Overstock com and Gradient dropped the claims against each other after Gradient retracted allegations that Overstock s reporting methods did not comply with rules established by the FASB stated they believed Overstock com complied with GAAP standards and that three directors were independent according to NASD standards and apologized 62 63 Byrne has said the apology and settlement represents a great step forward in our case 63 while Copper River s attorney stated that If somehow this improved Overstock s case then Gradient would admit to doing something wrong and they haven t and that he expected the settlement to help Copper River s case 64 On December 8 2009 it was announced that Copper River had reached an out of court settlement with Overstock As part of the agreement Copper River which closed in December 2008 agreed to pay Overstock 5 million 65 In a letter to his shareholders Patrick Byrne said The good guys won Copper River said in a statement that it continued to deny Overstock s allegations Copper River managing general partner Marc Cohodes said Although settlement deprives us of the ability to disprove Overstock s case and prosecute our counterclaims we decided that the litigation costs did not justify passing up a practical way to end four and half years of meritless litigation by Overstock 66 In February 2007 Overstock com launched a 3 5 billion lawsuit against Morgan Stanley Goldman Sachs and other large Wall Street firms alleging a massive illegal stock market manipulation scheme involving naked short selling Among its allegations Overstock stated that since at least January 2005 naked short selling has accounted for large portions of Overstock stock in some cases exceeding the 23 4 million total shares outstanding 67 The lawsuit alleged that this had created immense downward pressure on share prices over time Kerry Fields associate professor of law and business ethics at the University of Southern California said Byrne may be able to help set new law if he handles this right Fields said Byrne s best approach now is probably to persuade the SEC which continues to wander around the issue or the government to serve subpoenas and let them decide whether or not his company was wronged 68 John Coffee director of the Center on Corporate Governance at Columbia University Law School described it as overly ambitious and extremely unpromising 67 Two members of the Overstock com board of directors John Fisher and Ray Groves resigned in disagreement over the lawsuit 69 70 In December 2010 all but two of the prime broker defendants settled out of court with Overstock for 4 4 million 71 That same month the company filed a motion seeking to amend its lawsuit against the remaining defendants Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch to include claims of RICO violations The enhanced claims were based on evidence gained through discovery in the case 72 The RICO claim was dismissed at trial and this was affirmed on appeal The claim against Goldman was dismissed but Goldman subsequently settled a refiled suit Merrill finally settled for 20 million in 2016 73 See also Edit nbsp Companies portalE commerce Online auctionReferences Edit Form 10 K U S Securities and Exchange Commission February 24 2023 Christensen Lisa October 14 2016 Overstock com Unveils New Headquarters with Flair Utah Business Retrieved January 28 2017 Kell John Overstock com s CEO Is Taking a Medical Leave of Absence Forbes Retrieved April 20 2016 Holman Jordyn June 22 2023 Overstock com Wins 21 5 Million Bid for Bed Bath amp Beyond s Assets The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved June 24 2023 Overstock officially launches Bed Bath amp Beyond domain online in US KSLA August 1 2023 Glasner Joanna June 25 2004 Overstocking in Afghanistan Wired News Retrieved March 22 2008 Dotson Leslie Overstock com Celebrates One Year Anniversary of Worldstock Its Socially Responsible Goods Department Overstock com Business Wire Shontell Alyson MARKETING MONDAYS Overstock s Patrick Byrne Explains How He Turned A Bankrupt Surplus Goods Vendor Into A 1 Billion Business Business Insider Retrieved August 7 2023 Glasner Joanna November 12 2001 Where the Dot Dead Wind Up Wired News Retrieved March 22 2008 SEC Filing Overstock com Inc Retrieved 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Commission Retrieved March 22 2008 Burden Kirstie January 2 2008 Jason Lindsey Resigns as Director President and COO of Overstock com Overstock com Retrieved March 22 2008 Sage Alexandria January 2 2008 UPDATE 1 Overstock com says co founder Lindsey resigns Reuters Retrieved March 22 2008 Overstock com At 4 Year Low On COO Resignation RealTimeTraders news January 4 2008 Retrieved March 22 2008 permanent dead link Koort Robert January 3 2008 Analyst Actions Monsanto Overstock com Murphy Oil Digital River BusinessWeek Archived from the original on January 7 2008 Retrieved March 22 2008 Overstock s brash CEO delivers 1st annual profit Deseret News April 5 2010 Paul Foy December 16 2011 Overstock com unloads goods at Utah auction Yahoo Finance Associated Press Archived from the original on May 12 2016 Retrieved January 17 2017 Efrati Amir February 24 2011 Google Penalizes Overstock for Search Tactics WSJ com The Wall Street Journal Retrieved January 1 2012 Overstock FAQs Overstock com February 2 2011 Retrieved February 2 2011 Musil Steven November 14 2011 Overstock retreats from O co name change CNET News Retrieved November 20 2011 Philip Matier Andrew Ross April 27 2011 New name in Oakland sports Overstock com Coliseum The San Francisco Chronicle House Brian Bennett April 13 2013 Immigration bill would spark surge of legal arrivals Los Angeles Times Retrieved September 15 2022 Metz Cade October 6 2014 Overstock com Assembles Coders to Create a Bitcoin Like Stock Market Retrieved October 15 2014 Goldman David April 11 2016 Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne takes indefinite leave of absence over Hepatitis C complications CNN Retrieved May 25 2016 Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne resigns after deep state controversy Los Angeles Times August 22 2019 Retrieved August 23 2019 Metz Cade Creswell Julie August 22 2019 Patrick Byrne Overstock C E O Resigns After Disclosing Romance With Russian Agent The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved August 23 2019 About Us overstock com Retrieved December 4 2022 Vigna Paul August 2019 Overstock Is in the Red but Its Shares Are Soaring Wall Street Journal Retrieved August 3 2019 Overstock com Press Release 2002 The Worldstock Story Byrne s War Overstock com s Patrick Byrne is On a Self imposed Mission to Save Main Street from Wall Street Archived October 18 2007 at the Wayback Machine by Colin Kelly Jr 4 18 2006 Overstocking in Afghanistan by Johanna Glasner 06 25 04 Wired Metz Cade January 9 2014 The Grand Experiment Goes Live Overstock com Is Now Accepting Bitcoins Wired Retrieved January 10 2014 Metz Cade January 10 2014 In First Day With Bitcoin Overstock Does 126 000 in Sales Wired Retrieved January 10 2014 Morpheus January 10 2014 Overstock com increases daily revenue 4 3 by adding bitcoin first day NeoMoney net Archived from the original on March 12 2014 Retrieved March 11 2014 Wilhelm Alex March 13 2014 Overstock s Bitcoin Purchases Account for Less Than 1 of Revenue But It s Growing TechCrunch Retrieved March 13 2014 I m Patrick Byrne a pro freedom supporter of cryptocurrency and school vouchers early critic of Wall Street three time cancer survivor journalist at DeepCapture com and CEO and founder of Overstock com AMA Reddit May 3 2014 Retrieved May 5 2014 Chavez Dreyfuss Gertrude August 13 2014 Overstock CEO says bitcoin sales to add 4 cents to 2014 EPS Reuters Yahoo News Retrieved August 18 2014 Vigna Paul August 1 2019 Overstock Is in the Red but Its Shares Are Soaring Wall Street Journal Retrieved October 2 2019 Bhattarai Abha September 30 2019 Shareholder lawsuit alleges securities fraud at Overstock com Washington Post Retrieved October 2 2019 Holman Jordyn June 22 2023 Overstock com Wins 21 5 Million Bid for Bed Bath amp Beyond s Assets The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved June 24 2023 Goodbye Overstock com Hello Bedbathandbeyond com Yahoo Finance June 29 2023 Retrieved June 29 2023 Burden Kirstie December 27 2007 Overstock Reappears on the Regulation SHO Threshold List PR 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Naked Shorts The New York Times Retrieved March 22 2008 Boyd Roddy January 2 2007 Overstock com Lashes Out at Critics on the Web New York Post Archived from the original on February 29 2008 Retrieved March 22 2008 Antilla Susan February 11 2007 Overstock Blames With Creepy Strategy Bloomberg L P Retrieved March 22 2008 Sage Alexandria October 13 2008 Overstock says settled claims against Gradient Business amp Finance Reuters Retrieved October 17 2008 a b Beebe Paul October 13 2008 Overstock com settles suit with research firm The Salt Lake Tribune Archived from the original on October 17 2008 Retrieved October 17 2008 Industry News Institutional and Traditional Investment News eVestment Institutional Investment Hedge Fund News Pension Fund Media Coverage Hedgefund net Archived from the original on October 1 2011 Retrieved February 7 2014 Overstock says it settles with hedge fund Reuters December 8 2008 Retrieved December 9 2009 UPDATE 1 Overstock says it settles with hedge fund Reuters December 8 2009 Retrieved June 24 2023 a b King Danny February 3 2007 Overstock sues brokers Deseret Morning News Retrieved March 22 2008 Sandoval Greg March 28 2007 Overstock CEO reflects on Cramer debacle CNET News Archived from the original on July 10 2012 Retrieved March 22 2008 King Danny February 24 2007 Overstock s Suit Spurs Board Exit Bloomberg L P Retrieved March 22 2008 King Danny May 25 2007 Overstock Director Groves Resigns Because of Broker Lawsuit Bloomberg L P Retrieved March 22 2008 Form 8 K for OVERSTOCK COM INC Yahoo Archived from the original on June 28 2011 Retrieved November 3 2013 1 Archived June 29 2011 at the Wayback Machine Morgenson Gretchen January 29 2016 Case Sheds Light on Goldman s Role as Lender in Short Sales The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved August 15 2019 External links EditOverstock com Overstock com Rezzes Into Second Life CNN ireport com 2008 05 02 Retrieved on 2008 05 02 Business data for Overstock com Inc BloombergGoogleReutersSEC 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