| Comment Number: | 522418-02661 |
| Received: | 6/16/2006 11:29:55 AM |
| Organization: | PartyLite |
| Commenter: | Gina Fletcher |
| State: | MO |
| Subject: | Business Opportunity Rule |
| Title: | Notice of Proposed Rulemaking |
| CFR Citation: | 16 CFR Part 437 |
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Comments:
Dear FTC Member, I am responding to changes you are considering to the DSA's current method of Sponsoring New Consultants into our businesses. I am a Senior Regional Vice President with PartyLite and have been with this company for almost 12 years. While I appreciate your efforts to police those companies which are unscrupulous in their business practices, I feel that this measure would negatively impact my business and that of thousands of PartyLite Consultants and Leaders. We don't charge a New Consultant a start-up fee to get her business up and running nor do we use high -pressure tactics to force her to start. We simply provide a business opportunity that appeals mostly to women as a way to supplement her family's income and in some cases, like my own, that income becomes a main livelihood. I am greatly concerned that this policy would make it difficult for most of us to sponsor new consultants by forcing them to make a potential Consultant wait to get started and therefore lose her momentum, excitement and quick earning possibilities. In addition, I would not feel comfortable providing my personal information as a reference to be distributed to others without my knowledge nor would I expect others--mostly women--to do that. I do appreciate your efforts to protect consumers like myself but please don't make the honest and hardworking small business owner py the penalty. Thanks for your consideration, Gina Fletcher SRVP PartyLite Gifts