With such attributes and the right program together with proper training you can be a success in this kind of business. Pyramid clubs also include any such sales device which does not involve the sale or distribution of any real estate, goods or services, including but not limited to a chain letter scheme. A limitation as to the number of persons who may participate, or the presence of additional conditions affecting eligibility for such license or right to recruit or solicit or the receipt of economic gain therefrom, does not change the conditions for a consideration other than personal services, of property-tangible or intangible and includes without limitation, franchises, business opportunities and services. It does not include sales demonstration equipment furnished at cost for use in making sales and not for resale. The items in the sales kit may not be sold to the participants for the purpose of resale.
Pyramids are illegal because they are inherently fraudulent.
In order to achieve the profits that are promised, a never ending chain of participants must be recruited. A saturation point will be reached and no more recruits will be available. When this occurs the most recent recruits can't receive what has been held out to them to cause them to join, and they lose all or part of what they paid to join the scheme. After just a few levels there would have to be millions or billions of participants to keep the chain going. Chain letters are not the only illegal pyramids.