Ok Justin
I give up on this. Each time I post offering assistance, a new posting is added with more reasons why you feel people should not buy Hypnotrick. As a rule I follow the stance most dealers prefer, and do not comment on reviews. However, I REALLY like Hypnotrick and feel you have very unfairly hammered it, without giving it a proper try.
I think you feel £11.99 is too much to chearge for an effect in booklet form, which is a pity as so many great effects are out there in that format at far more money
I really don't feel you attempted to make the gimmick properly as you were already hacked off about the price:
Justin wrote... 'I made a gimmick with the materials I could find and performed it'
My main gripe is that the thing is so awkward to make and you need materials which are not normal household items
You did contact us to say you were unhappy that you needed to buy about £5 worth of craft materials you can get almost anywhere to make the gimmick and we offered advice and a solution to help you resolve the problem you were having.
You phoned up and asked for special discount prices on books, which we explained we could not do.
You then posted a rather insulting ccomment on our site which exposed the method and claimed we had conned you!?!? I would not really call that a review to be honest with you Justin.
After we took this down you posted a review on this site claiming we had conned you.
I really do not like to have to highlight this, but you have taken this into a public forum.
At the end of the day, for every few hundred copies sold of any effect, there will always be a few people that do not like the process involved in the method, or that don't feel they will be able to present it as it should be. I love the effect WOW, and another forum voted it the best effect of 2006, but if you read the forums, there is a lot of critisism too.
I sell thousands of different magic tricks from my shop, and my sales team help customers choose effects that they think are right for them. I expect many of the readers of this thread may have also spoken to me or one of the sales team and have been recommended effects. Each can judge the quality of this service personally. When you were having problems accessing your account from you PC at work, I spent several hours helping you (including working on your account access at home in my personal time.) With each attempt your responce by email was to complain and threaten that unless it was resolved right away you would be buying from another magic shop, I did not complain then, but Justin, I do draw the line when you claim I conned you with hypnotrick,
£11.99 for the price? well what price do you think is fair for someones hard thoughtout and researched effect, the marketing and printing of the product and royalties etc etc. £3? £6? how about at cost price? If we had decided to release it on DVD it would have been a lot more.
Hypnotrick has been selling worldwide for some time now and is being used by many professional magicians internationally, with fantastic feedback.
I have no real problem with one person filling up a forum thread with the reasons why they don't like one of our effects, but I do object to unfair comments which are perhaps the result of a different agenda.
I hope everyone reading this thread will see that I have tried to resolve your issues as best as I can. Each to their own at the end of the day my friend. I stand by my reputation as a magic dealer and professional magician. I recommed Hypnotrick. Readers can make their own conclusions.