Friends and Pyramid Schemes

[CHONGS]

Jared Bright tried to get me to join a pyramid scheme one time.

No thanks, Jared.

You just need to wait until the bonuses kick in. 

[CHONGS]

[ChiComCat]

A famous one out there is advocare. An old friend from college called me one day I guess because I used to work at a gym she said and would be perfect and it made me sad because i had already heard it was a scam and it led me to believe she was either dumb or trying to eff me over; either way it was a bad thing.

Someone who sells advocare bought me a program.  I lost 10 pounds in the first 10 days.  I think it had more to do with knocking off the drinking and watching what I eat than any of their stuff. The next segment involved taking pills 30 minutes before each meal and then with the meal too.  That was too involved for me.

[Dr Rick Daris]

the mods had pyramid scheme type talk at last years winter meetings. every board member initially gets rated anywhere from 1-10 in terms of value. 1's then have to give money monthly into a pot that will be distributed evenly between 2-10's. 2's have to give money monthly that goes into a pot and is distributed evenly between 3-10's. so on and so forth. the mods are all 10's. the break even line is a five. anything less and you are paying out money and anything higher and you are making money. the interesting thing about all of this is that socks are allowed. so let's say you are a 7 but you're sock is a 2 then guess what, you're going to end up owing a little bit more than you receive and etcetera and so on and so forth. the fun really breaks down into hey though what if i can come up with two great socks or something and get them rated high. i mean you're basically triple dipping at that point. wow!

[kso_FAN]

I remember when Amway launched Quixtar. It was quite a thing for a while and I knew several people that tried to sell me.

[420seriouscat69]

Jared Bright tried to get me to join a pyramid scheme one time.

No thanks, Jared.

[Yard Dog]

I remember when Amway launched Quixtar. It was quite a thing for a while and I knew several people that tried to sell me.

I had a friend get deep into quixtar my freshman year at KSU. He kept trying to have meetings that I was fortunately too busy to attend. I was driving up college ave. one day and a girl ran her car into my sweet '94 Mercury Sable totalling it. Finally went to one of my buddies meetings and she was there. I decided not to do Quixtar because of it. That car accident saved my life.

[slobber]

you know who does this stuff a lot? stay at home moms. they should be caring for the kids and managing the frequent flyer and hotel mileage programs not being rubes.

Not all stay at home moms. Mrsdobber thinks this crap is stupid. She is the box top coordinator at school, so when she gets invited to a stupid crap party, she says that she has to count box tops. It's a pretty funny response to an invite.


Gonna win 'em all!

[420seriouscat69]

I tried to tell him I was busy drinking last night, but he wasn't having it. 

[Mrs. Gooch]

I tried to tell him I was busy drinking last night, but he wasn't having it. 

Ask him if there will be women there, and then tell him about how you don't trust yourself around other women besides Ms. Wacky.

[deputy dawg]

you know who does this stuff a lot? stay at home moms. they should be caring for the kids and managing the frequent flyer and hotel mileage programs not being rubes.

Not all stay at home moms. Mrsdobber thinks this crap is stupid. She is the box top coordinator at school, so when she gets invited to a stupid crap party, she says that she has to count box tops. It's a pretty funny response to an invite.


Gonna win 'em all!

Awesome.  I was my son's Cub Scout Popcorn Colonel for the popcorn sales fundraising one year.  I used the excuse of being Popcorn Colonel to get out of numerous events I didn't want to attend. 

[420seriouscat69]

I tried to tell him I was busy drinking last night, but he wasn't having it. 

Ask him if there will be women there, and then tell him about how you don't trust yourself around other women besides Ms. Wacky.

This reminds me of a situation today where I had a student flirting with me and I was kinda like  . I have a problem! 

[star seed 7]

I screen my friends too well for this to happen to me

[ben ji]

Freshman year of college one of my buds from highschool called me up and said he was going to be in manhattan, wanted to see if we could hang out....Yup, ended up going to some Amway meeting at the holiday inn  NO LONGER FRIENDS.

Summer before senior year a buddy #2 called me on the phone one night when I was super pak'd to try and get me involved in a different type of pyramid scheme. I lol'd in his face really mean and told him it wasnt worth it and to stop trying now.

Buddy #1 never went to college.

Buddy #2 is now a chemical engineer.

Pyramid scheme's can suck anyone in i guess.

[ksupamplemousse]

My favorite part is where they try to explain some really simple system by drawing really complicated diagrams that use lots of bubbles, arrows, and connecting lines, when it would have been much easier to just use a pyramid. You're not fooling anyone, guy. Just pay for my dinner, and I'll try to pretend that you didn't just spend the last hour doing your best to insult my intelligence.

On a semi-related note, I was somewhat interested in Quixtar when I thought it might be pronounced key-tar. Once I found out it wasn't then I obviously bailed.

[Boom Roasted]

The latest pyramid I've seen is the You Should Be Here people with vacations where they post lots of "BMW" bonus pics

[Dugout DickStone]

My favorite part is where they try to explain some really simple system by drawing really complicated diagrams that use lots of bubbles, arrows, and connecting lines, when it would have been much easier to just use a pyramid. You're not fooling anyone, guy. Just pay for my dinner, and I'll try to pretend that you didn't just spend the last hour doing your best to insult my intelligence.

On a semi-related note, I was somewhat interested in Quixtar when I thought it might be pronounced key-tar. Once I found out it wasn't then I obviously bailed.

The negative connotations associated with the term pyramid have really screwed with their graphics

[chum1]

Per Wikipedia:

Amway (short for American Way) is an American company using multi-level marketing techniques to sell a variety of products ... but has been frequently subject to investigation as a pyramid scheme or fraud.

Yeah, pretty much.

[Dugout DickStone]

Amway is a pyramid scheme

[AbeFroman]

A guy I sorta knew from my hometown invited me to his frats party freshman year. I thought he was trying to recruit me to the frat, nope Amway.

[slobber]

Bob Stoops? Don't want. Wife is Amway queen. Bad for KSU image.


Gonna win 'em all!

[ben ji]

Love it when you tell your friend its a pyramid scheme....but they have already been coached on how to answer and are all like "Does your boss make more money than you? Does his boss make more money then him? Isnt that a pyramid scheme?!?"

[Benja]

What if, like, the world is a pyramid scheme

[ksupamplemousse]

What if, like, the world is a pyramid scheme

[signature move]

Amway is a pyramid scheme

pretty great bar in grand rapids, mi, home of amway called pyramid scheme. so it's not all bad.