Greetings all!

Interesting how Steve is selling his effect for $6.95 while I can read these posts and figure out the "secret" without investing that exhorbitant sum!

Thank you Magic Café!

Great...

Two things come to mind as I read your post.
1) I don't know if that's the attitude that Magic Café prefers in a member.
2) $6.95 is not an exorbiant sum. Though on second thoughts it can be for this effect.

It (the trick) amounts to a prank, a gag...hard to believe how many pages have accumulated on the subject, but here I add even more!

I'll save it for April Fool's day...it'll get a good laugh.
and Magic w/ HART, no offense taken, we at the Café welcome constructive criticism, and the preceding posts DO give almost the total of the "effect" away...
but many will appreciate saving the 7 bucks for sure.

do the Baludduci instead...but do it well!!

Two things come to mind as I read your post.
1) I don't know if that's the attitude that Magic Café prefers in a member.
2) $6.95 is not an exorbiant sum. Though on second thoughts it can be for this effect.
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Reply to 1) above: It is difficult to ascertain attitude through mere words on a page.
Reply to 2) above: My saying that $6.95 was an exorbiant, um, er, exhorbitant sum should give a clue as to my attitude (all written with tongue held firmly in cheek).

Although the method has been 'tipped', I'm sure Fearson has seen a modest return on his investment. The whole experiment should teach us that there truly is "nothing new under the sun" and that "those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it". In other words, many in magic are still doing the "parlour trick" while others have adapted, learned, and created better effects with the same methods. I for one have learned that I should re-examine some of the old effects I am doing and try to develop better effects using the same or similar methods.

OK, I've waited for 12 pages before I posted anything. I am not attempting to change anyone's mind with this post, but I wanted to share the experience that I had trying this effect out.

I am fortunate enough to have enough magicians around my area to attend a weekly Friday night magician's workshop. We tried out the Fearson vanish on a bunch of 20 somethings (laymen who happened to be there). We actually did the effect as a metamorphasis, rather than a vanish because it seemed to have a larger impact.
I did it sitting in a chair opposite of the spectator, who we brought into the room one at a time. I never saw their expressions, since I was the one doing it and I was being morphed into another person, but I could hear their screams of surprise.

One other magician in my club bought it too, so he did it on me as well. I was really shocked on how good it looked as a spectator and how shocking the effect actually is. And I even know how it's done!

My opinion is the folks who are slamming it without trying it are really missing something. Given the right place and time, it can be a shocker. It is a gag, but does it's job in shocking poeple. Are poeple REALLY going to believe you vanished into thin air? I don't think so. But can you entertain them with this clever stunt? In my experience, yes.

Now, I think Steve could have positioned the effect in his advertising a bit better and not recieved the backlash that he got. For instance, if he would have mentioned that it was a one-on-one type effect (because some folks got the idea that they could do this on the street or on stage). It might be able to be transfered to the stage, but more like a "paper over the head" type effect/gag.

Thanx for your input...sound like you had success.

I admit, I too had success....with my 9 yr. old! LOL

I don't mean to sound brash, but I just cant believe the hype...but same goes for countless so called tricks out there...half the time the dealers straight up lie in their description...what a shame...

ah, also, I just wonder, whether one-on-one or otherwise, how effective can a stunt really be if the spec, has to have her eyes closed for the whole thing???

crazy I say...but have fun and enjoy yourselves anyhow.

Hi,
I for one don't think this effect is worthless. But I am angry at the way it was publicized. The effect I first came across in the same genre was Larry Anderson's Jawdropper series and I loved the effect in it about the guardian angel. Fearson hasnt done anything special and this is not really his "creation" as he claims it to be. Also whats the spaceship crap in the vanish logo? He is trying to put some extra effects into this. Either people are too proud to admit that they are taken by a fraud or they havent come across this effect before.
I do the effect (the gaurdian angel) once in a while and get good reactions. Its a happy feel trick cos the audience also enjoy the trick.
And I seriously hope this is his goodbye vanish.....

LOL!!!!

Harishjose --

So you've been using this technique to allow a metamorphasis or vanish prior to reading the manuscript?

Well, I've bought "Goodbye vanish" on the release day on http://www.downloadmagic.com
As many of you agree , it's rubbish. The ones who don't agree that's fine for me.
I've received last the newsletter from Mr. Fearson , and amoung other stuff he says:

"> At just $6.95 the Goodbye Vanish really is a "Good Buy".
>
> And if you don't agree, I'll give you your money back. "

Well, I've asked for the refund that Mr. Fearson talks about on the newsletter and until now I've not been refunded.
Just to let the Café members know what we are dealing here with. I Hope I don't have to use a legal procedure on this Issue.

Best,

Can we make this post self vanish? Old already!

seriously, all this bashing over this effect is getting cliche`

Okay....but one more thing....

the NERVE of that guy!!! LOL!!

Angelo, you Pm'ed me and I apologize...methinks. I'll stick to magic vs. comedy.

now shall we here end this post? we've spent more time on this thing than many, many other worthwhile effects.

**THE END**

Hi,
Sure the others can make a decision by themselves : "The ones who don't agree fine that's fine for me. " That's what I said on my previous post.
Thanks for the refund.

Best Regards

** A response was posted to this accusation last night and it was promptly removed by someone at the Café. I would hope that the Café moderators agree that we at DownloadMagic have the right to respond to false accusations of this nature and not remove this post again. The original post follows **


Hello Joao,

On the rare occasion that we are asked to issue a refund to a DownloadMagic.com customer you can trust that we always do so promptly.

I looked up your email and you actually did receive a full refund within 20 minutes of requesting it.

Whether you are receiving notifications from your Paypal account is another issue you may want to look into.

Sorry if you were dissatisfied with the ebook or the vanishes contained in it. The vast majority of customers are satisfied though. Considering you did in fact receive your refund, I would hate to see your "call to attention" keep others from the product. I'm sure our customers can make that decision for themselves!

Thanks for your time,

Janet
DownloadMagic Customer Support

I love steve Fearsons stuff but I felt as though I've been jipped because its nothing new. In fact, it is one of the first tricks I learned but steve put a little spin on it. You can vanish with it and he is right about it not being easy. I have the poltergiest perfected and I have been caught several times with the vanish but I still want to give it a shot.

It is based around a concept called the spirit touch. The magician puts his fingers on the spectators eye lids and they feel someone touch them even though you and her are the only ones in the room. Well it's the same as poltergiest except instead of a spirit touching her or him it smacks them in the back of the head.

The same thing is put to work in the goodbye vanish. Now if you do or don't know the spirit touch get his ebook and you will learn how to use it more effectivly. I paid my 7 dollars now you pay yours.

john

WOW.
Over 19,000 views on this thread.
I gotta come up with a dollar item to sell, quick.
I know, send me a buck and I'll tell you how to get an endless supply of invisible thread for less than the price of a movie ticket...oh, that's been done already - sorry.

Ha!

I'm familiar with the gardian angel effect with the tap on the shoulder.

But this idea with the poltergeist sounds really dangerous. Correct me if I'm wrong,
but if you use one hand with fingers on someones eyes and then smack them in the back of the head with the other hand, wouldn't you end up jabbing your fingers into their eyes?

That's just craziness.