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Postby evan_bart » Mar 21st, '06, 18:12



Hi, I'm wondering are there any magic sites which teach you convincing magic tricks without you having to pay or having to give away your address?

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Postby Tomo » Mar 21st, '06, 18:25

Magic is not open source, you know. Quite the opposite, in fact.

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Postby Johnny Wizz » Mar 21st, '06, 20:39

They are usually linked to the sites giving away free Ferraris

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Postby tiggy49 » Mar 21st, '06, 20:45

Johnny Wizz wrote:They are usually linked to the sites giving away free Ferraris


well i found a site that did give away magic secerts and if i signed up i got a free house and that was linked to the ferraris site. i really think u should get your facts streight before posting thing like that :lol: ohh and just as a note the ferrari one was linked to 100 free shares in microsoft jsut so were clear

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Postby Johnny Wizz » Mar 21st, '06, 21:22

Oh yeah? Well my free Ferrari site gives away racehorses as well and guarenteess that they will be winners. Top that boyo! (Oh and a version of the Ambitious Card with every Ferrari of course)

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Postby Jelmo » Mar 21st, '06, 21:25

The tricks on those sites are mostly just easy tricks anybody can do, for a bit more professional (looking) magic you should and have to pay.

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Postby tiggy49 » Mar 21st, '06, 21:26

well i only use the sites for the free stuff :(

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Postby Mandrake » Mar 21st, '06, 21:34

Hi, I'm wondering are there any magic sites which teach you convincing magic tricks without you having to pay or having to give away your address?
You won't be surprised to hear that you're only one of several hundred visitors who have asked the same question! the answer is very simple; yes there are sites which give secrets away and others which do the same under the guise of 'teaching'. From our studies of many of these sites, they're just exposing secrets which don't belong to them and therefore are helping to steal someone else's intellectual property. For that reason even if we had details of such sites to hand, we wouldn't pass them on or leave any responses visible which gave such information. Something for nothing sounds good until it's your something which is being stolen and then it's a very different story.

Instead of looking for freebies, why not invest a very small amount of money in a basic magic book, video, DVD ect? If you use the search function on TM you’ll find many suggestions of where to start and what to buy - it won’t cost a fortune but it will be priceless in terms of working towards learning something valuable.

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Postby Pyro Ellvelin » Mar 21st, '06, 22:08

Mandrake wrote:
Instead of looking for freebies, why not invest a very small amount of money in a basic magic book, video, DVD ect? If you use the search function on TM you’ll find many suggestions of where to start and what to buy - it won’t cost a fortune but it will be priceless in terms of working towards learning something valuable.


OOOOR you could take that small investment, put it in a bank account, wait around about hmmmm 200 years at a typical APR of 2.5% and buy the ferrari....

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Postby Mandrake » Mar 21st, '06, 22:12

wait around about hmmmm 200 years at a typical APR of 2.5% and buy the ferrari....
Don't forget the Income Tax liability - better make that 300 years...

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