Readers of this blog may recall that I have associated the Dark Side of Traveling Sales Crews with the Quixtar/Amway nightmare in several past posts. I have honored the victims of the Janesville, Wisconsin crash prominently on this blog for some time now. Victims of the Janesville crash were members of a traveling sales crew. Little enough has been said about the many hours of potentially life threatening travel that 'core' Amway cult believers must realistically log in pursuit of Amway fool's gold. These folks are every bit as victimized by the pernicious Amway cult as the victims of the traveling sales crews tragedy. Two somewhat different groups basically who were in pursuit of a scheme which only served to enrich others; both groups victimized by those with whom they believe they are in business with. Tragically, four youthful Amway cult initiates were killed in an unfortunate auto/truck accident on the Indiana turnpike which really didn't have to happen. Click here to read the story.
Sadly, we must add the names of new victims in like manner to the victims of the Janesville crash. Amway youths, another roadside memorial to a tragedy that did not have to happen on a dangerous road that would have better been left untraveled.
Kyle Sporleder, 20, of Sylvania, Ohio
Aaron F. Esposito, 23, of Novi, Mich
Lauren Diefenthaler, 19, of Ypsilanti, Mich
Rodney M. Echelbarger, age unknown, of Holland, Ohio
Amway Global promotes a pernicious World cult. They misrepresent their cult business as a success, an incredible reality inverting myth, which makes those who promote it guilty of intent to defraud. The use of outright lies and deceptions and mind numbing cult propaganda intent to deceive youthful adherents into the scheme. The costs can be very high in their pay to play 'closed market swindle' and in the case of these Indiana victims, the price they paid was their lives. If there was no closed market swindle, these deaths most likely would have been avoided. Accidents do indeed occur, but this was one that could have been completely avoided!
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http://www.clickondetroit.com/money/18352145/detail.html?rss=det&psp=money
Still operating on that basic model, including prices that tend to be higher than those of their competitors
The company is gambling that consumers at home, where sales have been flat for years, will remember the days when Amway was known less for scandal and more for unrelenting pitches from well-scrubbed and optimistic door-to-door salesmen.
The link did not work. Here is the article from the google cache. Fired up to die should have been the title.
Business partners die in crash
Father: Four killed had been to conference.
By ERIN BLASKO
Tribune Staff Writer
As Andy Sporleder waited Monday for the arrival of his son's body, he described the atmosphere as calm.
"You know, we're doing pretty good, really," he said from his home in Sylvania, Ohio, where friends and family members had gathered. "We are aware of the fact that he isn't coming back."
Kyle Sporleder, 20, of Sylvania, was one of four people killed Sunday in a crash on the Indiana Toll Road near New Carlisle, Indiana State Police revealed Monday. The other three victims have been identified as Aaron F. Esposito, 23, of Novi, Mich.; Lauren Diefenthaler, 19, of Ypsilanti, Mich.; and Rodney M. Echelbarger, age unknown, of Holland, Ohio.
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According to police, about 8:05 p.m., the four were eastbound about 10 miles west of South Bend when their car slid across the median and into the path of a westbound semi-truck.
The road was reportedly covered with snow and ice.
Three of the victims were pronounced dead at the scene, police said, and the fourth died later at an area hospital. The driver of the truck, Duane Rigdon, of Carlsbad, Okla., was not injured.
According to Andy Sporleder, Kyle and the other three victims worked for Amway Global. He said they had attended a conference in West Lafayette, Ind., on Saturday and were returning Sunday when the accident occurred.
"They were all business partners," he said. "They were in this business together."
Kyle Sporleder and Echelbarger were also both lance corporals in the Marine Corps Reserves, according to Capt. Nathan J. Braden, with Marine Forces Reserve Public Affairs. Both were inactive.
Andy Sporleder said his son knew Diefenthaler and Esposito as colleagues, and met Echelbarger in the Marines.
He said his son joined the Marines out of high school.
"It was just something he wanted to do," Andy Sporleder said. "He wanted to make a difference."
Sporleder said his son left for West Lafayette sometime Friday or early Saturday. He said he hadn't spoken to him at all over the weekend.
"He was a go-getter," he said. "He had a plan with this business of his. He knew where he was going and what he wanted to do. He had a fire in him that you just couldn't put out."
Of the accident, he said, "He was just in the wrong place at the wrong time, I guess."
Staff writer Sue Lowe contributed to this report.
Staff writer Erin Blasko:
eblasko@sbtinfo.com
(574) 235-6187
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