| Comment Number: | 522418-05709 |
| Received: | 7/3/2006 9:01:51 AM |
| Organization: | RK Enterprises (powered by Quixtar) |
| Commenter: | Karen Gray |
| State: | MN |
| Subject: | Business Opportunity Rule |
| Title: | Notice of Proposed Rulemaking |
| CFR Citation: | 16 CFR Part 437 |
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Comments:
My husband & I have been active IBOS in Quixtar for about 4 years, we love this business and have been able to accomplish goals like bringing my husband home from work and traveling more with our kids! We have many more goals we look forward to meeting like being debt free. Quixtar is great with no requirements to meet every month and we can build it when we have the time, we've met wonderful new friends through this business and have learned that we can do anything we set our minds to. Our kids are learning this too and about how our family is team and we work together--something they dont learn in school or from tv! When we registered we beleive we were told plenty about quixtar become registering and do the same with our new prospects, we tell them it's not a get rich quick thing and that it will take hard work and that we cannot guarantee success.If interested our prospects pay $170 to sign up.$67 to register and $103 for product that they choose.the $67 is refundable for the 1st 30 days if they choose to quit and the $103 is refundable with the return of the product, even if they've opened and tried some of it. if prospects had to wait seven days I feel it was hinder our business because if they are excited and want to get started right away it would bother them so say sorry you have to wait a week before you can do anything. If the prospects had to wait 7 days to sponser anyone, they wouldn't like that if there friends were excited and had to wait another week before they could get it. That's 2 weeks of time they could be building there business and longer with each new prospect, this adds up to lots of time in a year which would limit the income possibilities for myself and my prospects! Futhermore, I don't believe a 7 day waiting period would benefit anyone in learning more about the business since we disclose all that information at the initial meeting with our new prospects. I don't like the idea of providing a list of ibos for the prospects to contact either. it is a privacy issue. some ibos choose not to build the business and they would not want there name on a list handed out to people. this is add to people calling other current ibos and registering with them instead of us because maybe they've been in longer--which would hinder new ibos tremendously!When prospects register we do have meetings that they have the option to attend and meet the other IBOS in our group and get to know them.Giving out my personal information to who ever wants to get in the buiness with anyone else violate my family privacy and safety for that matter! Don't agree with the "Litigation List" idea, every large company gets sued for matters with or without merit. we don't get handed a list of litigations when we walk into Walmart!!!shouldn't have to provide that here either! We let prospects know the potential of a quixtar business, along with the average monthly gross income of current ibos. We do not tell people what we make in the business, it doesn't affect there decision anyway! We do tell them of the impact the business has made in our lifestyle. We do not agree to the providing of financial records to substaintate the income--none of anyones business but ours. People in our community do not need to know how much we make. This could lead to so many other negative things happening--again its a privacy issue. For a new IBO starting, this could completely hinder there business with their future prospects! My earning potential has nothing to do with what the prospects could earn, since they could actually pass me by in the business and make more that myself!!! Thank you for your time and consideration of the above statements! I hope that you will truly consider these comments as these rules could hurt our business tremendously and then we would have nothing to look to, to help us with our financial future! We feel Quixtar is the best opportunity out there and would like to keep it that way!!! Karen Gray