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Mad Jake Inner circle All the voices in my head helped me make 2202 Posts 
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China has stepped up their game. Copy of new effects are coming out within weeks of the originals. The Gift in Gold is 12.96 with free shipping from Hong Kong. The really bad part about it, besides it being a rip off is that it's a GOOD Rip off. I don't know how they are doing it, but the quality of the copies are as just as good as the original. The one person who took a real hit was Joe Poper, now the Strong Box, Folding Key aren't really original ideas, they date back to the early 70's, I was able to trace something similar to the Strong box from Tannen's in 1971 that uses the same concept. The folding key, that's been around just as long. The really bad thing now is they are copying original routine books included with their version of the props, blatant copyright fraud.
Jake Jr.
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Tom Cutts Staff Northern CA 5930 Posts
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It is EXTREMELY possible that China made the originals of The Gift. This is what happens when you use Chinese manufacturing. They will run more than your contract run and sell them off. I have personally been privy to this happening. The big guys know it and just chalk it up to a price of doing business.
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Mad Jake Inner circle All the voices in my head helped me make 2202 Posts
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Dang, OUCH.
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paul180 Loyal user 219 Posts
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On Jun 10, 2017, Mad Jake wrote: I take it you know this because you bought the knock off?
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Mad Jake Inner circle All the voices in my head helped me make 2202 Posts
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No, not actually bought it. I saw one and you can tell a slight difference but they are using the packaging and instructions too. I have the original Gold Gift. I have a lot of electronics work done in China and they also sent me some new servo's. It wasn't till I went to program the servo that I noticed that too was a copy., the sad part was it was better than the original manufacturer. My father and I have been in magic for over 30 years together and I've seen a lot., no no PAUL I DID NOT BUY The KNOCK OFF.
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27300 Posts
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There's been some discussion of this ...
https://www.amazon.com/Coming-China-Wars......9&sr=1-7
...to all the coins I've dropped here
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Mad Jake Inner circle All the voices in my head helped me make 2202 Posts
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Jonathan,
thank you for the link, I just bought the book. This should make for an interesting read. I noticed on ebay that there are some more Porper items coming out and they are including the original routines with them, they think by spelling Joe's last name wrong it changes things. Well it kind of does, not only is it copyright infringement now it is also plagiarism. Correct me if I'm wrong Johnathan. Jake Jr.
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27300 Posts
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Somehow the "right to make copies" and "copyright" don't seem to be translating too well there. I found a bad copy of Platt's Blackout coin item.
Lowered production costs are just part of the "China price". I wish they'd direct their efforts as locally relevant magic. Someone there's offering gold foil/paper banknotes - wonder how they are for money magic.
...to all the coins I've dropped here
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Mad Jake Inner circle All the voices in my head helped me make 2202 Posts
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I have quite a few Chu Magic effects from when I was younger. They made good effects and it was suited to their country of origin. Did they too fall victim of the cheap magic that was starting to show up.
I'll have to give China this much, their quality is better than India. Back when India was having all those mudslides I never wished harm on anyone but certainly wished it would take out some of their magic factories. Gold foil bank notes LOL, that's like drawing a bill on gold leafing..
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magicmind Inner circle My fence has 20, 3226 Posts
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There is a guy on FaceBook that sells these Chinese knock-offs. He advertises them as the actual effect, using the write up and creators name. When you receive the item he says different and the sales ad is gone. I had screen shots and he offered to let me ship it back and refund my money.
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Joshua Barrett Inner circle Cincinnati, Ohio 3631 Posts
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The guys from utah?
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debjit Loyal user India 213 Posts
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My new product ended up in Chinese sites in 2 days! :/
My new effect: www.penguinmagic.com/p/10638
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EZrhythm Inner circle Only three EZ payments for a PDF of my 1855 Posts
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On Jun 11, 2017, Tom Cutts wrote: This is absolutely happening and Chinese magic sites are having their inventory provided with these products.
How many magicians does it take to change a lightbulb? Regardless, for magicians darkness is a time for d'lite.
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Deckstacker Elite user Sunny SoCal 442 Posts
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Debjit: I just checked and you are right, your product offered on Penguin Magic for $9.95 is listed on one of the Chinese websites currently for $2.99. From this I can only conclude that it must be an excellent product, otherwise the pirate site would probably be charging $.99 by now. (sigh) I continually puzzle over how quickly they manage to acquire products such as yours, also how blatantly they reproduce all the exact same ad copy as the legitimate site(s). I've reported such transgressions to the owners of the legit sites from time to time and have received thank-you messages in return. However, while it seems that they are well aware of the situation, they are powerless to put a stop to it. Tsk! Sadly, the elephant in the room here must be that such piracy is highly profitable, else why would they persist in doing it?
Never try to teach a pig how to sing. You will waste your time, and it annoys the pig.
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debjit Loyal user India 213 Posts
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On May 14, 2019, Deckstacker wrote: Haha yeah, them charging $3 is kind of a compliment then  I've reported the sites myself but I've come to the conclusion that the Chinese sites can't be taken down. And a lot of people do buy from these sites... I have a Facebook group for my effect and I get a lot of requests from these pirates to accept them into my group lol.
My new effect: www.penguinmagic.com/p/10638
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Deckstacker Elite user Sunny SoCal 442 Posts
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As I have observed elsewhere on the Café, there are also semi-hidden areas on the Internet where huge amounts of copyrighted material are posted merely for the bragging rights to having done so--no profit motive whatsoever. Practically all the major works of Gardner, Scarne, Lorayne, Fulves, Hugard, Tamariz, and many 100's of others sit on Usenet servers free for the downloading by anyone who knows how. The posters of this material do not appear to be exclusively Chinese or even Asian for that matter.
Never try to teach a pig how to sing. You will waste your time, and it annoys the pig.
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mantel Special user 923 Posts
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It's piracy for all the Magicians you listed except for Hugard as his copyrights have expired. Which means they're in the public domain.
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Deckstacker Elite user Sunny SoCal 442 Posts
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Mantel: Thanks, guess I should have known that. There are literally hundreds of names I might have mentioned; I was just listing a few I figured everyone would recognize. There are also magazines like Center Tear, Genii, Reel Magic et al. plus many, many books and individual tricks in PDF format by authors such as Lesley, Burger, Osborne, Garcia, Aronson, Tarbell, Slydini and others. Who uploads all this material? I have no idea, as the posters all use pseudonyms from bogus sites/domains like "nowhere.com."
Never try to teach a pig how to sing. You will waste your time, and it annoys the pig.
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MateosSpain New user 15 Posts
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Torrent pirates upload the video next day, in 3 days anyone with $2 can buy it somewhere else
but the aliexpress stuff is astonishing ! "double cross" got falsified in 1 week, AND IS A SPECIAL INK ! Venom the ITR falsified in 2 weeks and so many quantities that they even needed to put IN THE OFFICIAL SITE A DISCLAIMER ABOUT FALSIFICATIONS !
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Dannydoyle Eternal Order 21245 Posts
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The problem with selling “secrets” as they are laughingly referred to, is you don’t know what will be done with them by the purchaser. One likes to think others will respect them, but culturally that is not always the imperative universally.
I guess the only way to keep a secret is is keep it and not sell it. Otherwise it seems creators get ripped off into oblivion. Very sad.
Danny Doyle
<BR>Semper Occultus <BR>In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act....George Orwell |
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