Sounds very much to me like they knew these people would be vulnerable, desperate, and perhaps not exercising the best judgment, and they took great advantage of that, which is pretty freaking scummy. How exactly did these women plan to explain the sudden influx of cash away?)Īnd then the stuff with recruiting AA members. (Also, given how they didn't want their husbands to know about this little group, well, the guys are probably going to be curious when their wives magically now have money to pay for things they were struggling to pay for before, like health insurance, or house payments, or whatever. So that argument falls apart pretty fast. And we're solidly lower class, something which, again, these women clearly weren't.Īnd b) if they knew that people were struggling that much because of the crash and the recession, then why were they asking so many women to take out mortgages on their homes, or sell stuff or whatever in order to get the money to join? That's a risky as hell thing for anyone to do in general, and even more so at a time when the country is suffering through that kind of financial crisis and you're asking them to get involved in a thing that, as I see it, is just a way for people to pass money around and get richer. If we had that, we would've probably been in a little better place and would've been putting that towards helping pay my dad's medical bills instead of, y'know, giving it to random people in the hopes we'll get something back out of it. My family was having a lot of issues with my dad's health around that time, too, and I guarantee you we sure as hell didn't have $5,000 to spare. Which, okay, except a) again, if you've got $5,000, even in that environment, to plop down in this scheme, then it's hard to take the, 'People were struggling' argument all that seriously. As they were explaining the concept of the gifting tables, I was sitting here thinking, 'Okay, but these women all look to be very well off, why do they need to get involved in this? Other than because they simply want more money, of course.' And then Jill explains that she got involved because she needed to pay for her husband's health insurance, and was talking about the 2008 crash and recession.

Jill was really rubbing me the wrong way when she was trying to explain and defend her involvement in all of this. They absolutely knew that this was not exactly on the up and up. And then the stuff with them wanting to keep it all so hush-hush, and using different words to try and make it seem less questionable.yeah. Yeah, anytime some gathering involves some ranking that looks suspiciously like a triangle, that should be a pretty huge red flag that it's likely a pyramid scheme. I must be living a sheltered life because I've never heard of gifting tables.

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