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by **taffy** » Aug 29th, '08, 21:34

Hi Guys,

I was wondering what are the worst magic purchases you've made (Tricks, books dvd's etc) and for what reasons?

by **Ian The Magic-Ian** » Aug 29th, '08, 22:03

I regret none of my magic purchases come to think of it.

They were good at the time I bought them and It expanded my magical knowledge so I'm happy with them.

If you mean disappointing items, than the revolution coin vanish.

by **queen of clubs** » Aug 29th, '08, 22:17

I'd have to say my "worst" purchase (although Ian makes a good point that worst can mean so many different things in this context) was the coin-in-bottle effect, Factory Sealed.

I am not exaggerating in the slightest way when I say that a two minute video could explain how to do this trick - and even in detail! - yet they put out a whole hour long DVD with flashy graphics and raked in the cash. And I fell for it.

by **taffy** » Aug 29th, '08, 22:25

Yeah, maybe I should have clarified. I don't mean in terms of knowledge and 'I won't do that again' I mean, Oh Hell Why did I spend so much money on this when its S*** :roll:

by **taffy** » Aug 29th, '08, 22:28

Hey Queenie, I know what you mean with factory sealed. I know the method and would be totally peed off if I spent that money on it.
VERY misleading!

Thats what this threads about, A warning to other would be buyers!

by **Tomo** » Aug 29th, '08, 22:35

Mindbender by Ellusionist. £15, but most people who ply their magical in pubs come across it for free eventually!

by **lindz** » Aug 30th, '08, 00:10

Calling Card for me, the gimmick was just blatently obvious to me, it was just the worst £15 I think it was in my magical purchases, Ended up using the the gimmick for something else I made up so overall it wern't that bad even thoe I could have got the gimmick for about 30p but hey that's magic.

by **dat8962** » Aug 30th, '08, 01:17

There have been lots of worst purchases - too many to mention :oops:

The most recent has been the Jeff McBride DVD called Magic at the Edge. Not at all what I anticipated.

by **Ian The Magic-Ian** » Aug 30th, '08, 01:30

I remember your review on that. :lol:

by **dat8962** » Aug 30th, '08, 01:33

I just can't get away from how bad it was.

I might give it away as an Xmas pressie to someone that I don't like :lol:

by **Ian The Magic-Ian** » Aug 30th, '08, 01:34

At least it can serve a good purpose. :lol:

by **Relish** » Aug 30th, '08, 09:41

perhaps a bit controvertial but i was disappointed with Diceman

perhaps thats just me though

by **kevsashark** » Aug 30th, '08, 22:25

I was very displeased with "Card in WHAT?"

by **magicdiscoman** » Aug 30th, '08, 22:33

hell bent, £30 for a key trick thats looks better using a bobo switch.

by **MagicBell** » Aug 30th, '08, 22:52

dat8962 wrote:I might give it away as an Xmas pressie to someone that I don't like

A word of warning to anyone receiving Xmas presents from you. :lol:

He doesn't like you.

I bought a Bicycle Tiger Deck cause i liked the look of them, and although they're fine and all, I guess i kind of expected a little more for that extra cash.

Luckily, I can say that's my biggest disappointment to date - not much really.

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