THE IMPORTANCE OF ONE
Posted on: 17-May-2011
How much difference can one person make? Just one giving and generous person can make a huge difference to a family or community, bringing vision and hope to others around them.
Unfortunately, when those same efforts are focused on taking from people rather than giving, one person can hurt thousands of others out of selfish intent.
Just weeks after our membership base of dedicated Club Asteria members received and embraced our Code of Ethics & Conduct, and our Terms and Policies that govern the privileges we share as members, we discovered a small group of people taking advantage of our membership. Using their Club Asteria membership in violation of these rules, this small group used their PayPal accounts to cheat fellow members.
We acted immediately to resolve the situation that these people created. In addition, we have terminated these members' memberships under Code of Ethics & Conduct, Rule 6:
"No member shall knowingly support, encourage or engage in a transaction that is likely to cause financial hardship to any party in the transaction."
By revoking their memberships and turning them over to the authorities we have demonstrated how seriously we take any attack on our members and membership organization, but the damage they have done will continue to create difficulties for all of us.
Just as Club Asteria is a global company with high standards and procedures that we follow, we recognized that PayPal also has their standards, procedures and protocols to follow in order to investigate this fraud. Unfortunately this meant that they temporarily suspended all of our members’ and the general public’s ability to use PayPal to pay for any of our programs, products or services. PayPal is acting with integrity and it is now up to us to prove to them that we have done nothing wrong and resolve this issue so that our services can be restored.
This is exactly why we have our Code of Ethics & Conduct, and our Terms and Policies.
This shows that even though 99.9% of our members are truly Qualified Purposed Members, dedicated to our vision and mission, just a small handful of people can cause great damage to all of us. Again, we have taken immediate and decisive steps against those who perpetrated these acts to cheat our members, revoking their memberships and turning them over to the authorities as prescribed in our Code of Ethics & Conduct, and our Terms and Policies.
What Every Qualified Purposed Member Can Do To Help
First, if you have been paying for your membership through PayPal, please discontinue your subscription with PayPal immediately and start using one of the other approved payment processors AlertPay, Towah or CashX to ensure that your membership stays current.
Second, Do NOT use online forums, websites or social networks to lodge blame or complaints about PayPal or yourClub Asteria team. There is no benefit or purpose in this, and it only serves to create discord and spread rumors. Not only that, doing so is a direct violation of Code of Ethics & Conduct, Rule 8 and can result in immediate revocation of your membership:
"Members shall not publically disparage, demean or attack Club Asteria, its members, services or charitable activities."
Why is this so important? Because accusations, blame, complaints and rants only serve to damage the work and reputation of Club Asteria, meaning every one of our members' interests are hurt and the benefits we seek to bring to hundreds of thousands of people around the world are dealt an unfair blow.
If you have genuine concerns, use the resources available on the Club Asteria site or contact our Member Services directly.
Our membership benefits are based on helping each of our members increase their income potential and assist those unfortunate people in the world that can’t help themselves. Our programs are designed to help our members educate themselves in entrepreneurial pursuits, take advantage of new e-commerce opportunities to sell our products and services, and utilize our electronic wallet to save, manage and send funds all over the world. Each of us makes a difference. Clearly, to be a Qualified Purposed Member means participating on all levels, as well as reaching out and helping others within your community. If you are not participating in all of these things, you are not experiencing the full value of what we have created for each and every Club Asteria member.
You Make A Difference!
Clearly, we can each make a difference for good or bad… and the vast majority of our members choose to make a difference for good! We are dedicated to recognizing the importance of each of our members’ contribution to making our membership organization successful. Club Asteria has been able to help hundreds of thousands of people because our members are working so hard to spread the good word, to market the wonderful products and services that create the commissions we are able to distribute back to our members and the money that funds our philanthropic foundation.
You can be proud that hundreds of children are going to school all over the world because of this; orphans are being fed because of this; clean, safe water is being provided because of this; and small entrepreneurs are being funded worldwide because of this support. All of this because each Qualified Purposed Club Asteria Member believes that there are more important things than just filling our own wants and needs. This is the vision and the mission of each and every member of Club Asteria. I hope you will continue to help me as we all advance the true vision and hope of Club Asteria together!
Andrea Lucas
Managing Director
Unfortunately, when those same efforts are focused on taking from people rather than giving, one person can hurt thousands of others out of selfish intent.
Just weeks after our membership base of dedicated Club Asteria members received and embraced our Code of Ethics & Conduct, and our Terms and Policies that govern the privileges we share as members, we discovered a small group of people taking advantage of our membership. Using their Club Asteria membership in violation of these rules, this small group used their PayPal accounts to cheat fellow members.
We acted immediately to resolve the situation that these people created. In addition, we have terminated these members' memberships under Code of Ethics & Conduct, Rule 6:
"No member shall knowingly support, encourage or engage in a transaction that is likely to cause financial hardship to any party in the transaction."
By revoking their memberships and turning them over to the authorities we have demonstrated how seriously we take any attack on our members and membership organization, but the damage they have done will continue to create difficulties for all of us.
Just as Club Asteria is a global company with high standards and procedures that we follow, we recognized that PayPal also has their standards, procedures and protocols to follow in order to investigate this fraud. Unfortunately this meant that they temporarily suspended all of our members’ and the general public’s ability to use PayPal to pay for any of our programs, products or services. PayPal is acting with integrity and it is now up to us to prove to them that we have done nothing wrong and resolve this issue so that our services can be restored.
This is exactly why we have our Code of Ethics & Conduct, and our Terms and Policies.
This shows that even though 99.9% of our members are truly Qualified Purposed Members, dedicated to our vision and mission, just a small handful of people can cause great damage to all of us. Again, we have taken immediate and decisive steps against those who perpetrated these acts to cheat our members, revoking their memberships and turning them over to the authorities as prescribed in our Code of Ethics & Conduct, and our Terms and Policies.
What Every Qualified Purposed Member Can Do To Help
First, if you have been paying for your membership through PayPal, please discontinue your subscription with PayPal immediately and start using one of the other approved payment processors AlertPay, Towah or CashX to ensure that your membership stays current.
Second, Do NOT use online forums, websites or social networks to lodge blame or complaints about PayPal or yourClub Asteria team. There is no benefit or purpose in this, and it only serves to create discord and spread rumors. Not only that, doing so is a direct violation of Code of Ethics & Conduct, Rule 8 and can result in immediate revocation of your membership:
"Members shall not publically disparage, demean or attack Club Asteria, its members, services or charitable activities."
Why is this so important? Because accusations, blame, complaints and rants only serve to damage the work and reputation of Club Asteria, meaning every one of our members' interests are hurt and the benefits we seek to bring to hundreds of thousands of people around the world are dealt an unfair blow.
If you have genuine concerns, use the resources available on the Club Asteria site or contact our Member Services directly.
Our membership benefits are based on helping each of our members increase their income potential and assist those unfortunate people in the world that can’t help themselves. Our programs are designed to help our members educate themselves in entrepreneurial pursuits, take advantage of new e-commerce opportunities to sell our products and services, and utilize our electronic wallet to save, manage and send funds all over the world. Each of us makes a difference. Clearly, to be a Qualified Purposed Member means participating on all levels, as well as reaching out and helping others within your community. If you are not participating in all of these things, you are not experiencing the full value of what we have created for each and every Club Asteria member.
You Make A Difference!
Clearly, we can each make a difference for good or bad… and the vast majority of our members choose to make a difference for good! We are dedicated to recognizing the importance of each of our members’ contribution to making our membership organization successful. Club Asteria has been able to help hundreds of thousands of people because our members are working so hard to spread the good word, to market the wonderful products and services that create the commissions we are able to distribute back to our members and the money that funds our philanthropic foundation.
You can be proud that hundreds of children are going to school all over the world because of this; orphans are being fed because of this; clean, safe water is being provided because of this; and small entrepreneurs are being funded worldwide because of this support. All of this because each Qualified Purposed Club Asteria Member believes that there are more important things than just filling our own wants and needs. This is the vision and the mission of each and every member of Club Asteria. I hope you will continue to help me as we all advance the true vision and hope of Club Asteria together!
Andrea Lucas
Managing Director