| Comment Number: | 522418-06228 |
| Received: | 7/5/2006 6:36:56 PM |
| Organization: | Quixtar |
| Commenter: | Mary Rayniak |
| State: | WI |
| Subject: | Business Opportunity Rule |
| Title: | Notice of Proposed Rulemaking |
| CFR Citation: | 16 CFR Part 437 |
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Comments:
Dear Sirs, I have been a part of this business for 18 years. It is the best business and personal decision I've ever made. It grieves me to think that you are considering taking important freedoms away from us in this, one of the finest examples of free enterprise to be found anywhere. 1: 7 day waiting period is unwarranted. Anyone who joins our business team has every right to change their mind and receive complete money back for registration and products. Not just for 7 days but for months! To limit growth and enthusiasm and the ability to earn income by s-l-o-w-i-n-g down the registration process is unethical. Do you limit how many cars or how often a saleman can sell cars because someone might change their mind? Of course not. That wouldn't be legal. Nor would limiting us. 2: Giving a prospect the contact information of other IBO's in the area so they can get feed back? First of all, those people may not even be a part of our particular business team. They would then be given insider information on their competition. They would then have the opportunity to talk our prospect into joining their line of sponsorship...just as we would have the ability to 'steal' other prospects from hard working IBO's that had to now let us know who they were working with. That's just wrong. Not ethical. A violation of privacy...ours and theirs. Integrity is a huge part of how we conduct out business. It would be wrong to expose our personal business to competators or forcing others to reveal their personal business to us. 3. Show our prospects proof of our income through the business? Are you kidding me? You already require us to post these ridiculously low "Average Incomes" in all of our literature/printings/Audios/Videos etc. Now to be expected to reveal our personal income to the folks we're working with? Totally unethical! Does the CEO of IBM come down to HR and show new applicants his W-2 before they feel comfortable joining the IBM team? Of course not! And, just for the record, we earn an average of $3500.00 to $5,000.00 per month. Every month. Plus large "End of the Year" bonuses and we have earned these kind of bonuses and more for YEARS. We're nothing special. Certainly haven't broken any records reaching the highest or the fastest income levels. But the income is real. It is consistant. It took work. In the process of creating this income, we've helped A LOT of people along the way and we're proud of it. We care a lot about our people and our business partners. Corporate America could learn valuable lessons from analyzing the system and pattern of the Quixtar business. Back to my income, small by comparison that it is, it would certainly motovate a new prospect, but I refuse to be put in a position to have it to reveal them. As protective as your agency is, I can't imagine you'd put me in such and unethical situation. 4: Reveal any and all litigation that Quixtar has been involved in? Ok, who's coming up with these ideas? If Walmart had to reveal to potential new team members ...all of the law suits they are or have been involved in, they'd need a shopping cart to wheel the paper work out the door! And yet Walmart is a very legitimate and fair and upstanding business. They've just gotten big enough to become a convenient target for those who want to make a quick buck through a law suit. I am asking you to seriously reconsider all of these items. It would hurt our business. It would hurt us. It would seriously hurt our team and it's members. It will create loss of income. It would hinder people's ability to build a successfull business. And I don't know if an organization like yours would want to take such severe step that would so negatively impact hundreds of thousands of peoples lives. I implore you to think long and hard about the decisions you're making. The results may be a nightmare of unbelievable perportion. Sincerely, Mary Rayniak