On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 10:40 AM, Peter Gluck <[email protected]> wrote:
> A good Ponzi scheme needs some intelligence
> and organization. We in Romanian had two
> great ones after the 1989 revolution- made many people bankrupt. You had one
> really
> great recently.
> But this scheme 100,000 (coming 1000,000,000
> next) so called orders is IMHO just a game, circus, marketing parody. Surely
> you can find a better name for it.
> Surrealistic.

We have two phrases, "Selling a pig in a poke" and "Let the cat out of
the bag."  Selling a pig in a poke or bag means that the buyer should
beware because he is likely not buying a pig.  And when someone lets
the cat out of the bag, the potential buyer is aware of the attempt to
scam him.

T

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