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June 20, 2006
Did You Ever Receive This?
By Truth in A/QMOs
Well my vacation was very relaxing and I am ready to get back into the swing of things. Today I was doing a review of the Rules of Conduct for another article I am writing when I came across something very interesting. Section 7.5.1 of the Rules of Conduct state:
...Each IBO who sells BSM under such arrangements shall provide to each purchaser at least twice a year, during the months of September and March, the following or substantially equivalent language conspicuously printed on a postcard:
“We have a continuing interest in you and your business. This special message is to help you evaluate expenses that relate to BSM available to you. Your expenditures on these items should be reasonable compared to your business volume and profits. You should review your business expenses and decide whether you wish to continue purchasing BSM. The use of BSM in connection with your business is voluntary and must always be in compliance with the Rules of Conduct.
If you wish to discontinue receiving future [tape or book, etc.], please return this postcard. IF WE DO NOT RECEIVE THIS POSTCARD BY (_______________), YOU WILL CONTINUE TO RECEIVE FUTURE ISSUES OF [tape or book].”
I found this interesting because I don't ever remember recieving such an item in the mail or with my standing order at any time. I asked my wife because she would often go through the standing order before I saw it. She also did not remember ever recieving any such correspondence. So to put it simply I am wondering how many of you out there who were ever on standing order remember recieving this kind of correspondence from your upline twice a year like the rules state?
Is this another one of those rules that is just ignored by the LOSs and is never brought up because many IBO's (including myself) never throughly read the Rules of Conduct? Just another reason I encourage every single new IBO to sit down and take the time to throughly read the Rules of Conduct and call out their upline when they are in contradiction to those rules. Or maybe this is a brand new rule?
Comments
We did receive it. Keep in mind, we only subscribed to the "tools" for about 5 months but I do remember seeing that at least once.
That being said: Internet Services was our tool system and I remember when we called them to return 8 unopened CDs, they told us the return policy did not apply to CD of the week because it was produced for a particular diamond and fell under the “specially produced materials” and could not be returned.
Lastly, a couple I have built a friendship with in my upline bought all of our tools from us, opened and unopened. They are truly a great couple and if anybody makes it, I hope they do.
BWW does follow this rule. Twice a year, you will get a tape or CD with an insert including all this data. I think I have about 10 or so of those labels laying around.
X,
Now I was in BWW and I don't ever remember getting any such label. So is this a rule that some LOS just don't do?
Xana, I was in BWW too. Never recieved it?
old enough rule to have been around since at least the late `90's. Our upline group (then affiliated with Yager-now with Victor) sent out a BSM purchase/decline card although they haven't in recent years.
Truth and Inram,
It was not a seperate card, it was included in the tape or CD label. Perhaps you didn'treceive any, but I know I have several.
Never got one.
With WWDB for 2 years - never got one......... hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm unfotunately, it doesn't surprise. Having said that though, I never sent one to my downline either that bought tools through me. So, I fudged on this rule just as most IBOts seem to do as well.
SpinStopsHere,
It's called duplication. That's what makes the systems so great, or so they told us. Crap gets duplicated.
It may be a new rule. I never recieved it.
Posted by: Imran | June 21, 2006 4:38 AM