Evren Karpak has a record of making vicious attacks on critics of Overstock.com and Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne. The purpose of this blog, which Evren Karpak has sought to kill, is to focus on these statements.
Rather than responding to Antar or even reading the blog, Evren Karpak commences a personal attack on Sam Antar:
In a subsequent item, Evren Karpak states that he has not actually read the blog.
Remember -- Sam Antar has an alibi? He admits to all the lies and stealing he has been convicted of? Ergo, he must be telling the truth now. Or, something along those lines.
The thing is, even if he wasn't a convicted felon, his actions and words in the last six months would be enough to convince me that he is a scam-artist. All the, "I was so horrible in my past life, I deserve everything you can call me and worse!" doesn't change that part of the equation.
Then there is the question of whether he has any understanding of Overstock, the business, to begin with. I don't know. I can't make sense of his stream-of-consciousness rants even when they are talking about me, let alone anything else. Though, they are well-peppered with inflammatory words, accusations, etc. That much comes across.
I think his scam was honed in face-to-face interactions. Then, you may think there is a method to the madness and you just missed the beautiful reasoning in all the fast-talk. That doesn't work in writing, though, unless you are just scanning the page. Maybe that's why all his rants are so tediously long and quote the same things in full over and over again.
Former Illinois university instructor Dave Bartlett, posting under blackpartpo8, responds in character by personally attacking Antar and two other critics in a typically obscene manner:
Dave Bartlett posted again to say, "I stand corrected. They are much worse than common whores."
Just Sam the Sham grasping at straws. Must have taken a break from his cyberstalking. Funny how that comes out right after options expiration and gets picked up immediately by Tracy and Gary, two known Wall Street whores.
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Sam declared he had proof many months ago of fraud but had to back off on that. He actually then declared that he had no knowledge of Patrick or Judd having broken any laws by saying that he was not aware of them breaking any laws and hoped they had not.
Now he is trying to justify his existence in between cyberstalking and posting the names of minors on the internet by putting out pieces designed to confuse the ignorant like Tracy and Gary. As usual his exercise was entirely meaningless and futile. AGAIN.
Evren Karpak responded:
We agree on what Sam is doing -- "grasping at straws". But when he mentions something that *may* be a legitimate question, he deserves an answer. We can't expect everyone who reads his post to be familiar with his formulaic writing over the months here and on Yahoo, where every lie and every innuendo is framed as a question.The strategy is consistent. Evren Karpak seeks to discredit Antar again through personal attacks, and by offering no explanation for any of the data presented in Antar's posts.
Dave Bartlett, not purporting to possess any expertise or insights, simply attacks. It is hard to believe that Evren Karpak is associated with the University of Chicago, and that Dave Bartlett is a retired professor of history at South Suburban College in South Holland, Illinois.
Evren Karpak is an associate of Judd Bagley and a contributor to antisocialmedia.net.
Both Evren Karpak and Dave Bartlett, the former South Suburban College professor and historical society president, have a history of making vicious personal attacks on critics of Overstock.com and its CEO Patrick Byrne.
Why do they engage in this kind of conduct? What are their motives?
