by Mensan » Feb 6th, '10, 09:33
I recently got this trick, and used it. It works great. If you bust your brain, do some research, shop around, and find a source for the gimmick, etc, you can pull this off without buying the trick...but that would involve time, which is money, plus money spent of the gimmick elsewhere, plus all that thinking. Mental effort is work...which you are not getting paid for. If you put 4 hours in, and figure it all out, and don't get paid for the time you could have been: flipping burgers, sweeping floors, performing magic, or such, for pay...you will have lost an amount at least equal to the cost of this trick...plus you will still have to spend time, and money, to get a gimmick elsewhere...so doing it the cheap DIY way will actually COST MORE than buying the trick. Your cheap way will cost more if it takes you days, weeks, or months, to figure it out...if you ever do. Don't be cheap.
The trick: is easy, takes some minor preparation, is not instantly repeatable for the same audience, is best done for one person/family at a time at one residence, can be done in any nation, is legal...but could be used in an illegal manner...requires a simple gimmick which the audience sees, but does not recognize as a magic gimmick, has a gimmick which can be used many times before needing replacement, comes with some replacements included, comes with a great instruction booklet, comes with a good tip sheet, and can be used in imaginative ways you come up with yourself in adition to those listed in the instruction booklet. All in all, it is well worth the cost. I am on a low income, in a recession, and can't afford to waste the few dollars I do spend on magic...and I feel I got my money's worth. It could have cost less, I should have thought of it myself, but I am happy to pay for a good effect which saved me the bother of figuring it out myself...so I could better spend my time in the arms of my girlfriend. Some tricks are worth spending money on...and this is one of them. I used it to predict some big sporting events, but you could use it in other ways, too. I suggest you get it.