| Comment Number: | 522418-05601 |
| Received: | 7/2/2006 1:03:11 PM |
| Organization: | |
| Commenter: | Jean Kuykendall |
| State: | TX |
| Subject: | Business Opportunity Rule |
| Title: | Notice of Proposed Rulemaking |
| CFR Citation: | 16 CFR Part 437 |
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Comments:
Gentlemen, Thank you so much for all the hard work you do in protecting the American people from fraudulant companies that would take advantage of us. I have been an Independent Distributor with Mary Kay Cosmetics for over 30 years and a Xango Distributor for about nine months. I am very worried about your proposed Business Opportunity Rule, R511993 as it relates to my two businesses. I am a one person organization and I fear that all your requirements of contacting people initially and providing all the information of distributors and whether they stayed in or returned product to my companies would be more than I would have time to provide. I work many hours a week for the money I am currently generating without the added paperwork you would require. It would no longer be worth my time to try to improve my business. If you have never been in direct sales, you may not realize that very few people think about something for a week whether it be a business opportunity or whether to make a small financial contribution to a charity and then actually do it. It is hard to get people into action about anything; and if you interrupt the momentum, you will bring it to a halt most likely to never be restarted. I am speaking from 30 years of experience. An object at rest tends to stay at rest. May I suggest that you instead require that all companies have a money back return on any investment made within a specified time. Xango lets people have their money back if they ask for it after trying one or two cases of the product for a month. Mary Kay lets them have 90% return of the product investment within a year. These are reputable companies and the hard working distributors who work for them should not be burdened with more work. Please remember that a large part of what keeps this nation's business strong is the many millions of us that work in the Network Marketing Field. Without us, and we would be greatly diminished if this Rule R511993 is passed, the economy would be very negatively impacted. If you truly feel that you have to protect us all from our own poor choices, please do not use a rule that will impose such a hardship on the many honest network marketers that add so much to our economy. Thanks you for your time in reading this. Sincerely, Jean M. Kuykendall