On Dec 16, 2019, GeraintClarke wrote:

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On Dec 16, 2019, mantel wrote:

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On Dec 14, 2019, Magicsquared wrote:
I got it for a gift, and it will remain a gift. It's not good. It's not bad. It's about what you'd expect for $100. I can't imagine anyone using these props who isn't a complete beginner to mentalism. I'm confused by any review saying the props look good. The wallet doesn't look normal, the pad doesn't look like something you'd actually carry with you, the book doesn't look real, the credit card is obviously fake, and the ESP cards are see thru. That's only what I noticed at a quick glance. But mine is a gift for a 10 year old so it's fine for that.

If the 10 year old doesn't like it, get all your money back. As the product has IRON CLAD money back guarantee. I don't think it includes shipping even though the product page implies that "Ellusionist will refund every cent of your hard earned money", perhaps Geraint Clarke could clarify

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“90 DAY, IRON-CLAD MONEY BACK GUARANTEE”

You might be going something like this...

“This is fake. This can’t work. Look at these claims. I’ll never be able to do this.”

We know because we’ve been there. And we don’t fault you. But we can end that voice in your head. First, remember one thing. This is all we do, is teach this stuff. We’ve done it for two decades and have taught over a million magicians. Some of them are on TV. We’ve taught many of the magicians you see on America’s Got Talent.

This kit WILL BE everything you hoped for. We already know it, and so we’ll put our money on the line… instead of yours.

Have you seen those return it “within 10 days” policies? It’s the standard, but we never thought it was enough. You barely have enough time to get it out of the package!

So go ahead and take a full 90 days…learn a few of the best tricks. Go to Sunday dinner with the family and read the minds of your Mom and sisters. Read some minds in the office. Go to the bar and win some drinks. Get acclaim.

If How to Read Minds doesn’t do everything we say it will, send back the kit within 90 days and Ellusionist will refund every cent of your hard earned money.

Over 3000 buyers (and rising every second) can’t be wrong. So that’s 100% of the risk taken out of it and there should be nothing stopping you now.

The money-back guarantee does not include shipping

Hope that helps,

- G

On Dec 16, 2019, Troof wrote:

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On Dec 14, 2019, Magicsquared wrote:
I got it for a gift, and it will remain a gift. It's not good. It's not bad. It's about what you'd expect for $100. I can't imagine anyone using these props who isn't a complete beginner to mentalism. I'm confused by any review saying the props look good. The wallet doesn't look normal, the pad doesn't look like something you'd actually carry with you, the book doesn't look real, the credit card is obviously fake, and the ESP cards are see thru. That's only what I noticed at a quick glance. But mine is a gift for a 10 year old so it's fine for that.

The reviewers are given the stuff for free, or in some cases paid to do the reviews. So of course every review is good.

On Dec 14, 2019, Magicsquared wrote:
It's a real book. Dracula... with the actual story in it. Even the force words are from the genuine book.

On Dec 17, 2019, DavidKenney wrote:
On the USB key the gold prongs need to be face up when it slides in ... I'm sure you tried it that way, but just letting EVERYONE Know

On Dec 16, 2019, mantel wrote:

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On Dec 14, 2019, Magicsquared wrote:
It's a real book. Dracula... with the actual story in it. Even the force words are from the genuine book.

It's not really a real book though, is it? Took me all of two seconds to see the gaff, and saying that I'm an amateur at mentalism would be unduly complimentary towards me. Which is fine, there's only so many ways to do book tests, it doubtless flies right by the specs (unless they want to look at it), but come on.

Also, the USB drive I got doesn't work. In any USB port on any of my computers (2 PCs, 1 Mac). The ports are fine, as other things I plug into them work with no issue. I'm really surprised that there isn't a backup plan for this sort of eventuality, such as a separate download/streaming link. Because I can't imagine I'm the only one who's had this issue.

On Dec 16, 2019, GeraintClarke wrote:

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On Dec 16, 2019, mantel wrote:

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On Dec 14, 2019, Magicsquared wrote:
It's a real book. Dracula... with the actual story in it. Even the force words are from the genuine book.

It's not really a real book though, is it? Took me all of two seconds to see the gaff, and saying that I'm an amateur at mentalism would be unduly complimentary towards me. Which is fine, there's only so many ways to do book tests, it doubtless flies right by the specs (unless they want to look at it), but come on.

Also, the USB drive I got doesn't work. In any USB port on any of my computers (2 PCs, 1 Mac). The ports are fine, as other things I plug into them work with no issue. I'm really surprised that there isn't a backup plan for this sort of eventuality, such as a separate download/streaming link. Because I can't imagine I'm the only one who's had this issue.

The book I feel looks great, there are also subtleties on the set in the explanation section to make the book look even more real worldly. I also share how to integrate the book into a group of other books and even go as far as performing this live and sneaking this book into a selection of a restaurant owners other books.

I never once had a problem with the book.

But just to press/ share something for anyone that is new to mentalism or even intermediate that is often overlooked.

The book is a means to arrive at a word randomly. Regardless of how you arrive at a word, a b*llet, a book, flash cards they are only the bridge to getting to the word. Liken it to a lottery drum to arrive at a random number.It should never be the highlight of the routine, the book should be out, used and placed away without drawing much attention to it anyway regardless of whether you are using a real book or a gimmicked one. The process of reading the person or how you present the moment that you're receiving the information from the participant. That is the same as the rest of the props in this kit, use them as a means to getting what you need, but the participants should always believe it is a connection between you and them that is where the information is coming from.

A book is also a great way to make a performance seemingly grow, once you move into a b*llet later down the line one method kills the other and also it enables you to expand the size of the performance.

Another important factor is that in that particular type of routine the participant who verifies that each page is different and each and every word is different also (the eyes of the group/ the 'trusted' member of the group) is the person whom confirms everything is fair and above board. Therefore it puts the group into a double bind as they have to basically imply that they don't trust their friends judgement to want to question their book.

All of these points though don't matter as the book looks great, you can see it in David's review up close on camera - there are no issues, be your own judges.

Glad that people are loving the set, I was really confident that any preconceptions might be quashed when people received the sets. Thanks for being cool guys,

Pete x

On Dec 17, 2019, 252life wrote:
You did a great job with this release Pete.

On Dec 18, 2019, Nathan Horne wrote:
I wish this release existed 10 years ago :-O - It looks amazing and looks like it contains all the basics. The Dracula book test looks cool though.

On Dec 18, 2019, dyoung wrote:
Did you turn the USB drive 3 times before it worked? We all know USB drives has 3 sides before it fits

All the best,
Dan

On Dec 20, 2019, WitchDocChris wrote:
In the IT world we used to call it "Tech hands". The problem persists until the technician touched the computer, then it'd be impossible to recreate.