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As far as pyramid schemes go, this one seems fairly harmless.
Stakes may be low, but the people who fall for the low stakes ones may not know the signs for when they're presented with high stakes ones. I think it's important to call them out every time to teach the signs.
I think the only issue is this person not realising if you have 36 people buying 1 book and sending it, 36 people are not getting 36 books. They’re all getting one. Though, it could be a ring where you read then send, so you eventually cycle through to all 36. Issue there is reading speed varies so one person will end up a bottleneck but I mean yeah.
Either way, at this point just make a book club or go get friendly with your local librarian (I mean talk with them you perverts) and they can usually suggest books you would like but may not have chosen for yourself.
Edit: I understand it’s probably supposed to be a pyramid scheme but nowhere is it said in the picture you’re supposed to get other people to send you books and etc, just hey I’ll give you an address to send a book and you’re get a book(or 36).
It could be a pyramid scheme, or not written well.
I think your friend probably understands it as "I send book to stranger, I recieve book from stranger" but it's actually meant as "I send book to stranger, OP recieves book from stranger"
How the hell is this a pyramid scheme? Do you people have brain damage? Or is just that the average lemming is in middle school? Buy book, send book, receive book. No money or promises of wealth involved. It says "a maximum of" meaning that you may get more than one, I guess, if someone wanted to buy more copies than was asked of them. Shitty math doesn't equal a pyramid scheme in the same way lying doesn't equal "gaslighting."
You send book to one person. You ask many people to send you a book so you get many books. Each of those people, to get the same deal, have to then find many people each themselves to not lose anything. The reason it's a pyramid is because the last people to ask will receive nothing, they will be the bottom of the pyramid.
It's not "shitty math", it's just math. There is no guarantee that by you sending a book you will also receive a book. The wording is misleading, it is not "Maximum 36", it's "Maybe you get one back, but probably not".
That's the scam part - you encourage someone to join in on the premises that you are going to get things if they buy in, and if they do it they can too! Except more than likely they won't be able to, and all they did was give you a free book.