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March 18, 2003
It's all about Compliance
By QBlog in
Ok, as you may know my wife's upline has told her that she has 30 days (minus time passed) to take this site down, bring it into compliance or resign her IBO number. If she does not then they will take away her IBO number for her. I'm not debating whether they have the authority to do that right now, I'm simply examining the official Quixtar compliance document sent to me by Quixtar. This document is what determines if a site, such as this one is in violation of rules or codes of conduct for IBOs. Get the entire pdf here. Below I've noted my comments in BOLD.
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Requirements Specific to Personal Home Page (PHP)
1) Passcode Protection is NOT required for PHPs. I'm ok here for sure
2) Appropriate Content Includes:
a) Independent Business Owner‚s name and state. Ok with this one
b) IBO Achievement level. Fine here too
c) Personal statements regarding the business that comply with the General Requirements stated above and the Rules of Conduct. This is not listed on this page but it seems like I'm ok there too. They just want to be sure I'm not saying you can get rich quick or buy stuff if you live in China. Don't believe me, read it yourself.
d) A photograph of the IBO featured on the Personal Home Page. Kosher
e) Artistic elements in good taste which will reflect positively on the IBO and the Business Opportunity. Extremely subjective but I think I have enough emails from actual IBOs (don't worry, I won't use names) who feel this is in compliance to set up a defense should this be questioned.
f) An audio greeting. Does anyone do audio greetings?
g) The Business Opportunity must be identified as applicable in North America only.Right-O
Please be aware this information can be viewed by anyone on the Internet so you may not wish to publish information considered private or personal.
3) Prohibited Content (in addition to that listed in General Requirements above):
a) Product or service information. No prob b) Content which could be interpreted as an advertisement or prospecting information. Ditto
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As you can see, I don't quite understand how this site is violating any rules. If you are a lawyer (or just smart) and see where this site is not following these rules then please point this out to me. From my perspective, it seems like Quixtar is mainly concerned with people violating Federal Trade laws and not so much opinions. Could be wrong but that's just my perspective.
So tell me. According to this document, is this site in violation? Don't hold back now. I can take the truth.