Comments:

We have been selling collector coins/banknotes (just like the US Mint does via its mailing lists) since 1970. We sold by USPS mail from 1970, and since 1997 on the internet. We have carried many of our customers over from mail to the internet as they bought computers. To tell me that I may no longer recommend another company or another company's products is really counterproductive. We have clients all the time calling us to recommend sources for material they are looking for. It is the habit that if I take the time to recommend a fellow hobby dealer who can optimally handle one of my customer's needs, that I should receive a percentage of the profit. That keeps me in business, along with many other things. It is also the habit in our industry that if he books an order, then that customer becomes part of his mailing list. It has been this way for 50 or more years. Yet the law seems to say that if I recommend the most reputible firms in the country, as I have tried to do since 1970, and then my customer "unsubscribes" or otherwise asks to be removed from my mailing list or newsletter, THEN I am responsible for not only my firm's rapid unsubscribes, but that I am responsible for all the companies and governmental bodies I have recommended in my newsletters. Frankly, most firms that I recommend are much larger than my company and aIthough the owners and I would have the utmost respect for each other, I would have only suggestive power over them. What a draconian policy. I am glad that the FCC and FTC are much more intelligent than those who drafted this suppressive law. I have watched the FCC operate since I received my amateur radio license in 1954, and I believe the FTC does a very credible job too. I know you will do the right thing or "send it back" for intelligent (re)consideration the next session of Congress. In the meantime, please do not kill thousands of great businessses by asking/demanding one company to be responsible for the actions of another. It is just not the way you and I have been brought up. Because I may receive a commission from Amazon.com, does this mean I must be responsible their actions, or risk a penalty if they fail to take action I suggest? To require commission agents or affiliates to control the companies on whose behalf they work is not in the best interest of the economy or the consumers. Respectfully, Steve Eyer, full time hobby dealer since 1970 Steve Eyer Incorporated (since 1980) www.eyersworld.com