I just don’t get this shorting business .. why would these...

I just don’t get this shorting business .. why would these Shorters hold huge amounts of shares to wait for a takeover offer at 2 or 3 dollars … when they have to buy millions upon millions of shares to give back, isn’t the idea that they hope the share price will crap itself completely ? ( which they’ve already been pretty successful in doing ) surely they need to start buying back soon , come on Gareth pull your finger out and give us an update good or bad … least we know where we sit .. instead of hoping for the best while watching our hard earned dollars disappear daily