ZAP (fka ZAAP)

[BubbleBuddy]

Unfortunately, the company has been, and continues to be, under attack by shorts.

This constant attack has been slowly wearing the stock down and has substantially interfered with its legitimate ability to raise capital to invest and grow. The objective of the short is to ruin the company and force it to dilute the stock to the point of worthlessness. It is deliberate, premeditated and destructive -- it hurts REAL investors; it hurts and ruins companies; and it destroys confidence in the market.

http://johnlux.net/short-sellers-attack-stock/

Here is an excerpt...

"In any short sale, we have the short sellers fighting the company. Now by short sellers I mean the predatory, which is to say the aggressive, short sellers.

Aggressive short sellers take steps to make sure that their trade works. They do not simply sell and hold while praying for a profit. They get off their butt and do something to get results.

Something to get results can be making public some information on the company like Mr. Ackmann’s presentation on Herbalife, or Muddy Waters exposing of Chinese stocks.

How would you like to come to your office and find out you had been targeted? Maybe you already have

Shorts can lobby the authorities to get prosecutions going. Shorts can make a continuous public relations campaign to warn customers away from the company

Predatory Short Selling. In fact, these steps are only limited by the imagination of the short seller, his budget, and the law.

Only One Will Survive. This puts you and the short seller in a life or death battle."

We truly need to either outlaw shorting (as has been done in other countries) or significantly "up" the regulation and get real tough on predatory and plainly unjustified shorting, above all, of small company stocks that cannot afford to defend themselves from such predators.

It's hard enough to start a business and keep it going. Small businesses don't need short sellers making it impossible to raise needed capital based on the whims of some faceless predator that has made a unilateral decision against you -- dictating that you are going to fail (so that he can profit at your expense) with you having no recourse or means of defense.