Comment Number: 522418-11566
Received: 7/17/2006 1:23:20 PM
Organization: Quixtar/Nieves Enterprises Int.
Commenter: Brian Nieves
State: MO
Subject: Business Opportunity Rule
Title: Notice of Proposed Rulemaking
CFR Citation: 16 CFR Part 437
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Comments:

I would first like to thank the FTC for two things... 1. Having a desire to see less than honest business practices eliminated. 2. Allowing business owners with legitimate concerns a chance to voice our opinion. I am a member of the Missouri Legislature and hold a senior leadership position in that body. As a Quaixtar affiliated IBO and member of the legislature I have a dual perspective on this issue and hope you will consider my views as I am both a Law Maker and a Quixter IBO. There are several provisions of your proposal that I must tell you am am strongly against and believe will cause terrible damage to my legitimate business and my family income, I will mention a few with my remaining 3266 charecters. Problem 1 (The waiting Period) - This provision seems a moot point for businesses like Quixtar that offer a full refund policy. Our founding Fathers would flip in their graves if they were to see this level of restriction all in the name of "government Protection." Please consider modifying the rule to instead require all business to follow Quixtar's lead and have a mandetory refund policy. Problem 2 (References Requirement) - This provision will cause a terrible time sucking inconvienience for IBO's who have built any level of success. I can not imagin answering endless phone calls from prospects who will never even be in my organization because someone gave them my info as a reference! I'm sure you have already figured out this would be a legal nightmare because privacy issues abound if this is enacted. This proposal can not even be modified, it must be Eliminated! Problem 3 (List if law suits) - This borders on the insane!! What doctor or any other profession has to do such disclosure? I am shocked such an idea would even be considerd! Among other problems, this requirement would open up Quixtar and other legitimate companies to false accusations. Meanwhile, dishonest companies would simply ignore the rule. Problem 4 (Providing Personal Financial Documents) - Stock Brokers handle Hundreds, Thousands even Millions of dollars of other people's money and don't have to do this. Let's keep in mind that it is a couple hundred dollars at most to start a Quixtar Business! We are not asking people to give us a first born child or the nest egg they have built over an entire lifetime. This provision must be eliminated. Again, I want to thank you for allowing this forum. I feel confident it is NOT the Quixtar Business you feel needs regulated. We are one of the "real deal" businesses out there that is really doing what we say and saying what we do. I'm sure there are a few "bad apples" in our ranks but that will never be eliminated no matter what the government does! As a Quixtar IBO I will tell you we have been extremely blessed as we have built our business to a fairly good level of success and have enjoyed a great level of freedom that can only come by building a private business. We look forward to being able to continue helping others do what we have done and some of the proposed rule changes would hamper such efforts in a way I would rather not even imagin. As a Law Maker I will suggest going after the "Bad Guys" and then rewarding those Businesses who actually set the ethical standards in our industry. Use quixtar and any other legitimate Business Opportunity as a "yard stick" and make the bad players step up to our level instead of making things harder on us. It is never OK for the government to punish the good people for what only the bad people have done Thnx again -Brian Nieves Quixtar IBO Mo. State Representative