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Personally since he's an old friend I'd go to dinner with him.
Then uppercut him into bolivian
Yea, one of my friends once got lured into what he saw as a very lucrative deal. Something about paying 1500 dollars and getting 10x that in return.Or if you have been in that situation, which many people have, what did you do?
"You do realise I'm poor don't you? I thought you were taking me for a hot meal out of pity. You are paying for it right?"
I had a friend try that on me a decade-ish ago. I told him straight up it sounded like a pyramid scheme. He got defensive and tried to explain how it's not. I meh'd his explanation.
Coincidentally, we're not friends anymore and haven't been in many moons.
A friend trying to sell you on a pyramid scheme is either woefully naive or duplicitous, in which case they're not much of a friend.
Yea, one of my friends once got lured into what he saw as a very lucrative deal. Something about paying 1500 dollars and getting 10x that in return.
When he said that he was going to a meeting about it and asked if I wanted to tag along I said "I dunno, sounds very much like a pyramid scheme", to which he responded "yes but it's not, they say a lot of people get that wrong". "Who's they?" I said. "The people in the meetings." At this point I was 100% sure it was a scam and suggested that we go for some beers instead.
So we had some beers and during the discussion it came out that he had in fact already payed those 1500 dollars. I just shook my head and said "live and learn".
I didn't say it was, but at a glance I can see why you thought that. What I meant was if they're duplicitous then they're probably not much of a friend. Even then I said nothing of ending the friendship over that, that's up to the individual.I dont think naivity alone is enough to end a friendship.