" pyramid scheme "

 [ "pyramid scheme" ]

1: A fraudulent business model, illegal in most places, in which participants are paid to recruit more participants, rather than commissions on sales.

  * e.g.,  ... Pyramid schemes market to prospective participants while Multi-Level Marketing plans market to prospective consumers. Pyramid schemes fail because scam participants are not a viable market. Most of the participants pay more money to participate than they receive for participating because there aren't enough suckers left to recruit. 

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2: Frequently passed off as Multi-Level Marketing by incorporating sales of an unmarketable product or service into the scheme. In such cases, participants are usually required to maintain a monthly purchase quota to qualify for payments.

  * e.g.,  ... Once the suckers figure that out and quit paying into the scheme, those who recruited them start losing money too, and then they quit. The scam shrivels even faster than it grew. 

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1: see scientology

  * e.g.,  ... hail xenu: the master of the the ultimate money-grubbing pyramid scheme 

 [ "pyramid scheme" ]

1: illegal money-making arrangement where great wealth is promised, usually in a relatively short period of time.

  * e.g.,  ... there are many organizations which are, in reality,legalized versions of the pyramid scheme - Amway is probably the most well known and has been around the longest. 

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2: very few people, if anyone, end up making any money, and in fact end up GIVING money in their vain hope of striking it rich.

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1: Not actually a scheme but an incredible way to make money fast by being involved in a Multi-Level Marketing Business!

  * e.g.,  ... Guy 1: fuck i love pyramid schemes 

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2: You can even be your own boss!

  * e.g.,  ... Guy 2: ikr! they are like bitcoin and nfts and stocks and bonds and money combined 

 [ "Pyramid Scheme" ]

3: We recruit you and you recruit other people to sell more!

  * e.g.,  ... Guy 1: I am going to invest in my future today! 

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4: Don't look into it any further!

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5: Our Premium Package starts at 1999$ a month!

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6: Act fast because this is a limited time offer!

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7: Get involved now!

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1: The best sceme to ever set up once you learn to never underestimate the stupidity of the human majority. Just make sure you don't get caught, though.

  * e.g.,  ... I started a pyramid scheme eight years ago, and made $32,761,449 before people found out about it. But by then, I had already retired to the remote jungles of Brazil, where I built my deluxe compound equipped with the latest anti-tracking technology. 

 [ "Pyramid Scheme" ]

1: Any form of business proposal in which one pays a fee to begin, and rises up in a pyramid-like form, being given money by people under the original payer. Usually considered a hoax.

  * e.g.,  ... That's a pyramid scheme! Don't fall for it! 

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2: See also: wordChain letter/word

 [ "The Pyramid scheme" ]

1: When three bros form a triangle, and partake in anal sex. Make sure you take turns, you don't want to pop out.

  * e.g.,  ... I walked in on my three friends doing the pyramid scheme, I wish it was a mlm instead. 

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1: An actual business strategy that is proven to work, and if done right is completely legal. Consists of the first person signing up, who then gets X friends to sign up, and those get X friends to sign up, and can give something away for "free" (eg. freeipods.com). This works on the principal that even if EVERY person in America was to sign up, the bottom of the pyramid (which would consist of most likely more than half the US population) wouldn't be able to get the X friends and couldn't complete the offer. The scheme will make them money no matter what happens, even in the worst case scenarios.

  * e.g.,  ... Aww man, I tried to sign up for freeipods.com, but all my friends already have an account! 

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1: The pyramid scheme:

  * e.g.,  ... I thought I was gonna get in on a pyramid with these two chicks from the bar but it was just a pyramid scheme 

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2: A lot like the pyramid where the girl rides cowgirl and the other sits on your face but instead u are tricked by chicks with a dick or a full on dude