A pyramid scheme is where a person pays to another person or company a payment, (called a participation payment) for the right to receive payment or other benefits from the recruitment of other persons, (called a recruitment payment).
A pyramid or Ponzi scheme uses money from new investors to pay "dividends" to the existing investors. If you have to recruit new "investors" to make money, it is a pyramid. You get in by paying someone upstream and are paid by the people you recruit, usually sending some of the money up to the person who recruited you. Legitimate multi-level marketing is similar, but different because you have to sell something but can make more money by recruiting people to work under you.
Quickstar went out of business in 2011. It was a pyramid scheme where only a few made money and many lost their money. They sold computer based software, there is not much detail about them on the net anymore besides forum sites.
In terms of illegal business scheme, it is not. There was nation wide lawsuit in 80´ about legitimacy of MLM system and the system itself represented by the Amway as the biggest company was found legal and in fact very healthy for business environment. In terms of structure of the distributing network it is a pyramid - as any other big organization like school, government or army. Guidelines to determine wheter any company is a illegal pyramid are these: 1) Profit is made from selling product and from sales of recruited distributors, not from registering distributors. 2) There is return policy on registration fee or costs, as well as for products. 3) There aren´t any obligatory purchases.
most say it was the pyramid of khufu in the predynastic period which began in 2600 B.C.
Ambit Energy's population is 238.
Ambit Energy was created in 2006.
Ambit Energy is a top electricity and gas provider. Ambit energy has one million customers. The company is based in Dallas, Texas. In 2010 Ambit was named fastest growing private company in America.
Yes. It is pyramid scheme.
Lifeline Energy's motto is 'Tackling Energy Poverty'.
Ambit Energy is a energy deregulation company that is owned by two men who founded the company in 2006, Jere Tompson Jr. and Chris Chambless.
A Pyramid Scheme
yes
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Those people who invested in a pyramid scheme and got out successfully before it crashed got lucky. That's all. The goal of the starter of the pyramid scheme is for those who get paid will re-invest their earnings hoping for the earnings to compound. This will keep the pyramid alive longer.
It should be regarded as most likely to be an MLM or pyramid scheme.