| Comment Number: | 522418-04500 |
| Received: | 6/27/2006 2:41:29 AM |
| Organization: | Quixtar |
| Commenter: | Kerstin Davis |
| State: | CA |
| Subject: | Business Opportunity Rule |
| Title: | Notice of Proposed Rulemaking |
| CFR Citation: | 16 CFR Part 437 |
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Comments:
Dear FTC, I am and IBO affiliated with Quixtar and has been involved and working the business for many years. The income from our Quixtar business has helped us out tremendously especially during a time when my husband was laid off from his job. Learning to operate our own business has also taught us how to budget and handle our money and we are currently on a mission to get out of debt - a task that would have been nearly impossible without our income from the Quixtar business. With that said let me share my thoughs regarding the new proposed rules. Since one of our main goals when we share the Business Opportunity Plan is to make sure the prospecive IBO gets as much information as possible and do as much research as possibe from credible sources, it would not make sense for them to have to wait another 7 days once they have made an informed decision to get going. My second objection is regarding the requirement to to give every prospect a list of "references" I certainly would not like to have my phone number be given out to people I do not know. It would be just as absurd as giving out phone numbers of 10 employees at the company I work at before hiring someone. I also draw a similar parallell when it comes to disclosing financial records to a prospect. Since I work at a Health Club that sells memberships, it would be completely inappropriate to disclose financial records to an individual who is getting hired on as a sales person. Just as they would be informed of the commission scale and the compensation package so is the prospective IBO. And on that note...a prospective employee, wheteher it be for a supervisor position or line employee, would not benefit one bit from a list of all legal allegations and lawsuits against the company I work for, just as it would not benefit a prospective IBO. It really has nothing to do with someone's ability to earn income from an organization and it would have a negative impact on our business. Our goal is to run our business ehically, professionally and profitably. We applaud your effort to make it difficult for organizations that do not operate their businesses that way. Since we do have traits in common with the unproffesional organizations (home based, non-traditional etc.) we are alredy working hard to separate ourselves from them. Why not require an FTC approval from all businesses instead and have a list of the FTC approved organizations for the interested prospect. Thank you for listening, Sincerely, Kerstin Davis