But it would be fair and will make all of the children happy (assuming everyone sticks with it).īTW the person who sent the letter to the original blogger above apparently didn’t understand the scheme since they sent a pack of stickers to the person *down* the pyramid, rather than waiting for the stickers to propogate *up* to them. In the end, if everyone complies, each child is meant to receive 36 packets of stickers. Such a club – and it would be reasonable to call it a club, unlike this scheme – won’t grow of course. Once you receive your invitation to the sticker club, you send some stickers to the person listed as 1 at the bottom of the letter, and then you send a letter to six of your friends inviting them to join. Then, every month, every child will get a set of stickers. The end result is just lots of free stickers for people near the top of the pyramid, a few getting a smaller number further down, and none for the people at the base of the pyramid.īetter getting together with a small circle of other mums and dads, with children who like stickers, and sending each other a set once a month (or however often) sending to the next child down the list each time. That isn’t possible in a finite world – so the ‘club’ eventual collapses, and most children will be disappointed. will have to try and find enough kids to send letters to from each of her kids,making it tougher on her. I think if shes friends with one child, but happens to play with the siblings you can do either If you do send to all the brothers and sisters then their M. The only way for this not to happen is for the pyramid to expand, at an exponentially increasing rate, forever. Im not a big fan of chain stuff, but I can see how cute/fun it can be with stickers for a young girl. Since some children will receive up to 36 sticker sets (less if the pyramid peters out) but each individual letter recipient is required to purchase and send *only one* set of stickers, then is is necessarily the case that many (generally most) of the children who take part will never receive *any* stickers. The flaw is easier to understand when you think of the basic arithmetic involved. That is, even the originator will not received more than 36 sticker sets. It is different to some pyramid schemes, though, in that the profit (stickers), or a portion of it, won’t propagate all the way back to the originator at the top of the pyramid (except in the first couple of iterations). Alexiss Letter A On Its Side Gold Necklace Sticker. The critics are correct this ‘Sticker Club’ is of the same nature as a Ponzi scheme. Unique Necklace stickers featuring millions of original designs created and sold by independent. People don’t seem to understand that pyramid schemes just don’t work – unless you are near the top of the pyramid. My son received one of these letters a while ago. Perhaps some of them, at least, can just do basic arithmetic? Or don’t want to encourage their child’s participation in a junior get-rich-quick scheme. And then like magic my kid will get a bajillion books in the mail. Don’t think that these people are ‘lazy’, ‘busy’ or ‘paranoid’. It's a fucking chain letter demanding I send some stranger's kid a book and worse, wrangle my unsuspecting friends into this pyramid scheme as well by sending this to 6 other people.
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