What Is A Pyramid?

What Is A Pyramid?

1. Egyptian tomb: a huge stone tomb of ancient Egyptian royalty with a square base and triangular walls that slope to meet in a point at the top


2. solid triangular shape: a solid shape or structure that has triangular sides that slope to meet in a point and a base that is often, but not necessarily, a square. The volume of a pyramid is one-third of the product of the area of the base and the height of the vertex.

3. system with expanding structure: an arrangement or system that has a small number of items at one point and expands gradually to have a large number at the opposite point

4. pointed body part: a pointed or cone-shaped body part, e.g. either of two bundles of fibers located in the brain

5. finance investment method: a financial risk structure that spreads investments between high, medium, and low risk

6. finance stock speculation method: stock speculation involving a series of buying and selling of shares, with paper profits as margin for more purchases

7. crystallography crystalline form: a crystalline form in which three or more nonparallel faces intersect all three axes of the crystal.

Tim Sales(http://www.brilliantexchange.com/) explains:Pyramid: The word pyramid has simply come to mean a business that seems like a scam.


Scam: A fraudulent business scheme. Fraudulent comes from the Latin word fraud, which means deceit. Deceiving someone means to trick them.

FACT: There is no activity (stock trading, charities, law firms, medical doctors, religion, M.L.M, government, etc.) that does not have a history of fraudulent activities.

In looking at scams, it is important to locate the actual source that is creating the scam; there is ALWAYS at least ONE person.

Illegal Pyramid Scheme


An illegal business that involves the exchange of money primarily for enrolling other people into the scheme, usually without any product or service being delivered.

Sometimes there may appear to be a product - but it's only there to "look" like a real business. Few people outside of the pyramid desire the product or they can get the same product elsewhere at a less expensive price.

If you enrolled me into your business and I paid $300 to join BUT THERE WAS NO VALUABLE PRODUCT THAT WAS EXCHANGED - that could be an illegal pyramid.

This does not mean that M.L.M is an illegal pyramid because people enroll others into a business. The fine line between legal M.L.M and illegal pyramid scheme (according to the Federal Trade Commission - FTC) is the exchange of a real product.

Yet, if you enrolled me and I bought $300 worth of products to see if I want to do the business - then that is NOT an illegal pyramid as long as the product is a "real" product and not some gimmicky product.

Most legitimate M.L.M companies give a thirty day 100% refund on products if you don't like them. And if you buy inventory to sell and then change your mind about the business, most legitimate M.L.M companies will give you back 90% of the purchased price.

So the primary difference between an illegal pyramid and a legitimate M.L.M company is that a pyramid does not have a "real" product. A legitimate M.L.M company has a real product that people outside of the business desire. - Tim Sales, newsletter, 14 June 2007. http://www.brilliantexchange.com/


Thank you Tim Sales (http://www.brilliantexchange.com/) for your insight about pyramids, scams and how they relate to the M.L.M. industry.

I answer the question, "Is it a pyramid?" this way. "Yes it is." That is an affirmative answer. You did not tell your prospect that they were wrong. You affirmed their thinking with "yes it is." This answer keeps them from feeling upset because you said they were right. Tell them "No it isn't" and the brick wall between your prospect and you has became higher and wider instead of coming down. Thus making the rest of your conversation more difficult. But because you answered in the affirmative now you can teach them what is a pyramid. So now you can ask them empathically, " Prospect, where do you work?" They answer, "The rubber band plant on the north of town." You then say,"Well, in your company, Prospect, may anyone in the rubber band plant earn more than the owner,CEO, President, etc.?"

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