Pyramid selling

[Tracie Lynn]

in business, the act of someone buying the right to sell a companys goods, and then selling the goods to other people. These people then sell the goods to other people.

[Tina]

a way of making money, illegal in many places, in which someone sells people the right to sell a companys products. These people then sell the right to others, and this continues until many people have bought the right, with the original seller getting a share of every payment: