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Behind the Bastards
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Consumers by Line - A Scam or a Pyramid Scheme?
In 1990, Ranieri and his friends came up with consumers by line. It was a multi-level marketing scam. People would pay 200 plus dollars for access to discount buying groups. If they signed up other people, then they'd get monthly commissions. The grocery discount program was canceled, but the company kept charging people for it. They didn't actually pay people for selling memberships either. Eventually, they had something like a quarter of a million members, but also were paying out millions in legal fees because they were defrauding tons of people.
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