Is it just me or is the math wrong on this?

[frash.exe]

For the past two weeks, this has been popping up sporadically on my news feed on Facebook:

....are participating in a book exchange. I need 6 moms, moms to be, grandmas, or anyone interested in the book exchange that will actually participate and follow through.

Here is how we play! You must purchase and mail ONE book to a child and then your child receives 36 books in return (if all goes well and everyone follows through).
You can do this in less than 10 minutes if you order the book through Amazon. Just think of how much fun checking the mail will be for your child with lots of books coming!

Let me know if you are interested, and I'll message you the instructions...it's super simple!

my guess is this is a viral copy/paste social thing but it's not technically accurate and nobody is really pointing it out. If there's 6 parents, and 6 children, and each parent is buying one book for each of the other children, then each child receives 5 books, and each parent will be buying 5 books. Right?

[frash.exe]

Upon further review, this is a pyramid scheme.

http://www.thatsnonsense.com/the-36-books-for-1-book-exchange-pyramid-scheme-debunked/

It

1. requires an incomprehensible level of trust and perfect execution

2. Sounds very optimistic and only highlights the potential of the program and doesn't mention any likely setbacks.

3. Contains limited information as to draw you in and lures naive people in to at least make the commitment to contact.

It's basically primerica for the kids.

[Jase]

Yeah, like any pyramid or ponzi scheme, the further you get, the more people you have to feed into the system to keep it running.  Eventually you run out of willing participants and the majority of the participants end up losing out.

[Zaximus]

Yup was about to post Pyramid scheme lol.

It still cracks me up how much people fall for the "legal" ones around, like the Owl necklace one and Posh and stuff like that.

[Anybodyhome]

This is a form of the "Mike Huckabee scheme."

Write a book, use campaign contributions from your Presidential run to buy a ton of said books until it makes it on the best seller list. Then sell same books back to your supporters at a bigger markup....

[Jimmy]

Worst ponzi scheme ever...

[Jangler]

This pyramid scheme,  can you store grain in it? 

Sorry, was listening to talk radio last night and how the great pyramids were grain silos.

[IMON KRAQUE]

My favorite was the guy selling collectible Abraham Lincoln plates that turned out to just be pennies