RS> Very simple really, few are actually getting the
RS> vast bulk of their income from the pyramid structure.

GB> But according to your earlier post, if it was POSSIBLE it was illegal.

RS> Nope, never said that.

GB> If that WASN'T your definition of a pyramid structure, what is?
GB> In ANY system where you are paid a commision on sales by people
GB> 'down the line' there is the potential to make more that way than
GB> by direct sales.

Sort of. But say with car salesmen, there isnt normally a multilevel
pyramid like you see with a full scale pyramid marketing scheme, tho
thats not to say every single salesman is at the same level. Same with
say insurance reps, you dont get the complex deep pyramid structure.

GB> Are you now saying that it only becomes illegal when
GB> the such income is an actuality rather than a possibility.

Yes, its what happens that matters, not whats possible.

Lets take a hypothetical example of someone who advertises here to
get heaps of suckers who themselves go off to get heaps of suckers
etc for the pyramid, down thru multilevels. Now if the original con
man is just getting his income from the suckers below him in the
pyramid, its clearly just a pyramid marketing scheme. Him saying
'oh no its not, its a multilevel marketing scheme' doesnt satisfy
the law, because if it was that easy there would be no point in making
pyramid marketing schemes illegal, coz everyone would just declaim that
they are network marketing schemes. The law isnt that silly.

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