August 14, 2005

The Big O Overstock.com Advertising Campaign and the Exotic Dancer

I've always wondered about Overstock.com's TV advertising campaign "the Big O". It was pretty racy, now we know why. If this site is accurate, the marketing department is run by an ex-exotic dancer. Who would of thunk it?

Is the Stormy Simon who is a Senior Vice President of Overstock.com--a woman described by Patrick Byrne as “our secret weapon” and “my chief of staff”--the same "Stormy Simon" who was described in court documents (from a murder trial in which she was a witness) as “an exotic dancer”?

So in this latest round of high-stakes poker by Doctor Patrick Byrne, you can put your money on the CEO who apparently entrusted his company’s marketing campaign to a former “exotic dancer.”