Pyramid Schemes

[Koios]

Has anyone ever heard of Equinox? It was started by this crook named Bill Gould. I remember I got talked into joining this about 10 years ago. I was young, broke and stupid, but anyway it was a huge scam. Here's how it worked. They sold these supposedly health care products. Hair products, toothpaste, mouth wash, detergent, water purifiers ect ect. They even sold breath freshener. Anyway, the goal was to move up. In order to move up to the next rank, you had to buy $15,000 worth of products. First off before anyone calls me dumb as a box of rocks, I never stayed in it long enough to buy anything. But anyway you had to buy the $15,000 worth of products and then sell them. Then you would start getting money from the other people you brought into the organization. Same as Amway. One time they told us Bill Gould and some other scam artists were going to be speaking in Atlanta GA, and in order for us to go we had to pay $300.00 to see him speak. They told us that we would need to see him speak in order to be an effective seller. Now this is what was so crazy. I paid the $300.00, or so I thought. I drove down to Atlanta, but I never made it. My car stopped on me, somewhere in Chattanooga TN. I needed an alternator. I ended up finding a mechanic who fixed it. I had to buy the part, but he put it in for only $50.00. He told me he was a Christian and as he was putting the alternator in, we started talking about the Bible. This guy was one of the nicest people I had ever met. The bad thing, at 1st I wasn't uncomfortable, because these were complete strangers to me. On top of that, I don't know why, but my credit card was never charged. The money was available too, but I still don't know why it was never charged. I guess God was looking out for me. Listen to this. Once I became a member, they would tell us to make sure we're really into what the speaker was saying in the seminar so the new members would also take interest. They would say "sit forward on the edge of your chair and seem really interested." LOL. No lie. There's no way I could do that. They also talked about how much money they had, but looking at their shoes and attire, I couldn't tell. To make a long story short, I got out with no money spent. I'll try to find the info on Bill, because he got busted for scamming.