| Comment Number: | 522418-09487 |
| Received: | 7/14/2006 4:20:36 PM |
| Organization: | XanGo LLC |
| Commenter: | Jack & Robbie Sikes |
| State: | NE |
| Subject: | Business Opportunity Rule |
| Title: | Notice of Proposed Rulemaking |
| CFR Citation: | 16 CFR Part 437 |
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Comments:
Federal Trade Commission Office of the Secretary Room H-135 (Annex W) 600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW Washington, DC 20580 RE: Business Opportunity Rule, R511993 To Whom It May Concern, First of all let us tell you how much we appreciate your efforts to protect the legitimate selling companies. We are well aware of the fact there are many fraudulent groups out there. We joined the XanGo Company in the fall of 2004 out of the need to find a replacement for Vioxx which had been taken off the market. Robbie had painful arthritis and found that the mangosteen fruit from Southeast Asia, could keep down the swelling and pain even better than Vioxx. Jack started drinking XanGo and was able to stabilize his alarming high blood pressure. We never dreamed of selling XanGo to others, but we couldn’t help but tell others what was happening to our own health. Low and behold we began to sign up a downline of friends and relatives who also needed health needs met. We are 78 & 79 years young and our social security check is less than $2,000 a month which means we needed to supplement our income with the higher prices in today’s world. At the present time XanGo is meeting this financial need. However, we are very concerned about the impact of some of the FDC proposed rulings and pray that you will take a second look at the following suggestions. If you were to put a seven-day waiting period on signing up a person it would be very impractical. We are so thrilled with the results of XanGo that we encourage our friends and relatives to start drinking it immediately. By only paying a membership price of $35 they can immediately purchase their case of XanGo for the wholesale price, whether they wish to become a distributor and sell it to others, or not. Please don’t write this delay into your rule. It would not be practical for us to have to give a prospective member a list of their “10 nearest existing sales people” We are already giving testimonies from at least that many people that are drinking XanGo, but they are scattered through out the world. They are welcome to contact any of XanGo member, but we feel the privacy and safety issues would be at risk if we gave more details out to everyone we contact, just to have the “10 nearest existing sales people.” It would also take many more hours of work. We can also foresee lots more “paper work” with the earnings claims and at our age, we just can’t handle that. The XanGo Company lets us know the total yearly amount of their checks to us, and we have gladly paid the required taxes. We have only had one person who wanted their money back, and the company gladly returned it. We think it would be difficult to collect the required data if this ruling went into affect. We have 13 children, 45 grandchildren and 20 great grandchildren and the majority of our immediate family, as well as Jack’s siblings, are drinking XanGo made from the mangosteen fruit. XanGo has been our answer to better health as well as to more wealth, & we feel fortunate to be a member of XanGo. Thanks again for watching out for fraudulent companies, but believe us, XanGo is not one of them and their policies are truly awesome and really help the “little guy”. Please don’t cast such a wide net that you wipe out our business. Sincerely,