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Sneak Peek of SF Museum
maxentius writes "Posted on Trufen.net: Paul Allen's Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame, due to open June 18, is offering early "Charter Memberships" to a select list of e-mail recipients (and apparently to anyone else who happens to hear about it before the June 5 deadline). The museum will adjoin the Experience Music Project in the very odd Frank Gehry-designed building near downtown Seattle. Allen, a life-long SF fan, has been working on the project for a few years, and it will probably be the same sort of sensory extravaganza as the EMP. The e-mail promises "exclusive access" for Charter Members, including the chance to go to an pre-launch tour and party, a t-shirt, and a limited-edition lapel pin. There are many levels of membership, from "Terran" ($40), through "Hive Mind" ($75), "Replicant" ($500), all the way to "Immortal" ($10,000). It's hard to say just how this will turn out, but with the likes of Greg Bear and Forry Ackerman as advisors, and some interesting ideas, it might be okay."
For $100, you can join my club. The main benefit is that for each person you recruit to join (with them paying the $100 entry fee), you get to keep $50. And if any of your recruitees enlist someone, you get to keep $25. And if any of THEM enlist someone, you get to keep $10 of the cost.
:-(
Now, if you can recruit 3 people, who in turn recruit 3 people, who in turn recruit 3 people, you will make 27*10+9*25+3*50 = $7,150.
Got that? You can make of SEVEN GRAND for only $100 and the simple effort of recruiting three people. And note that for each additional three dependable people you recruit, you make an additional $7,150. If you could just recruit 10 groups of three, you'd pocket $71,500 -- all for your original cost of $100.
(And this reasoning is the foundation of many of the gimmick pyramid schemes out there...)