I’m watching more and more magicians who barely have any experience in the field decide to write a book or make a video to teach something that they barely have a grasp of much less have any real expertise in. They get all their friends to help hype whatever their creation is and then put it out there at a high price so that once you discover they are actually amateurs, they have your money and there’s nothing you can do about it. I just watched an insanely expensive “hypnosis course” go on sale by a guy I’ve never heard of in my years in hypnosis, and he didn’t even use his real name. Instead he used a cutesy play on words regarding something involved with hypnosis to show he has zero chance of sticking around after the sale. No real name = no freakin’ chance.
Then there’s this problem that every new magician faces: you see a trick and it fits your style but of course since it’s magic, they’re not going to reveal that you have to use sleights or a million other things that might give away the secret but also may be the one thing that you can’t do, so once you’ve bought the effect, you can’t even use it, so you lose money on it even if you resell it. Most magicians aren’t made of money so this cycle is very self-limiting and can drive people away from magic. If you put out a piece of garbage, you are essentially stealing(the law would call it something similar to “conversion”) from magicians and this blog is here to put a hole in your pocket at every chance I get.