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Old 02-28-2006, 12:40 AM  
rowan
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Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Australia
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Originally Posted by jjjay
I think so.

you'd get a better return feeding $100 notes to the dog
Actually with the way 12DP works you end up with pure "profit" after something like 3 pay cycles; you've made back the value of your initial investment at that stage. It's the guys who just got into it that will lose part or all of their principal. In a ponzi scheme profit is generated from new memberships so in reality you're getting someone else's membership money as payout.

If emthree was doing it for a while and wasn't suddenly ramping up his reinvestments (eg going from $500 to $6000 a cycle or two before it died) then he's probably still in the black.
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