PTOI is down from $7 at the height of Mr. Bordynuik's misrepresentations to the current $0.031 and all the way down, the predominant topic was "bypassed bids" and "manipulation." You should probably focus on PTOI's business, or lack thereof, which was responsible for that $6.97 drop rather than some nefarious entity outbidding you by a hundredth of a cent.

I feel you're in a particularly bad position since you said you still believe Mr. Bordynuik's claims of $10/bbl crude. That means you believe you're holding a royal flush and willing to throw more and more money into the pot. I don't blame you. If I also believed he were honest, the company's valuation of debt plus equity totaling $16M would seem extremely cheap.

What I don't get is how nonchalant you are with the company's continued failure over the course of years. I've never seen you ever utter any word of disappointment with PTOI even though you certainly don't hide your hatred of anyone who believes PTOI is a scam.

I'll help you out here--if you have more money you want to put into PTOI, contact Mr. Heddle and tell him you have that money to invest and want a good deal. I'm almost certain you won't be disappointed with the number of shares he would be willing to throw at you in return for a moderate amount of cash. I've seen shareholders even go on to be appointed as the new CEOs of these types of companies just because the outgoing CEO can't extract any more cash from investors and wants to step down. I don't know how much cash you've committed to averaging down, but if it's significant, buying on the open market is the wrong way to do it.