On Dec 29, 2014, BlackZ wrote:
I have just finished to watch both the DVD.

First of all they could have done everything on a single DVD instead of two but I think that this is a marketing move to justify this high price that is anyway too high for what it is.

In the first DVD you see some performances, then there is a general introduction of the cold reading and how it works with a general script on Barnum's style (Barnum's statement) and it end with a superficial description about palm reading, I hate when they told you, if you want to know more about that, buy this other product of mine... for what this DVD cost, just go into the details as you have a lot of space to use on both the DVDs.

The second DVD is about Tarot's reading, again a superficial introduction that you can deepen on another product of him, and on how to close the reading.

Do not misunderstand me, the product is not bad at all but of course it is too expensive for what it is and it is just for a person who has never done a cold reading before and, anyway, this person have to study in details on some other source how to do a palm reading or a tarot reading because of here the presentation is very superficial.

If I want to learn readings (palm, tarots, ...) there are a lot of better products which cost much much much less.

At the very end then he tolds that these DVDs could be the right companion for the Ice Cold Reading book... I have thought that this is a subtitute of the book not a companion... anyway that's my mistake.

Hope this could help.

On Dec 31, 2014, Kyoki_Sanitys_Eclipse wrote:
Alright guys I really need your help with this. I am a magician that has been practicing for about three and a half years. I love magic and have decided I want to learn mentalism too. I need to know if this is a good starting source for me or if it wont be worth the money without other resources and prior knowledge. If this wont be a good buy for me what should I get. I really appreciate all the help.

On Jan 7, 2015, clairvoyant wrote:
This was one of the worst mentalism products I've ever purchased. Nothing that hasn't appeared in numerous other cold reading publications. The "system" is too basic and not explained well, and jumps all over the place.

Jheff also didn't like it, from his newsletter: "Morgan Strebler's ICE COLD - I have serious issues with this. The marketing is incredibly misleading, it's priced much higher compared to other similar items, the information on the DVD is not organized or presented in a way that delivers on its promise, and, most importantly, I found hardly anything original and/or worthy of the marketing and price that's being asked. Yes, I know Bob Cassidy and Marc Salem both seemed to give high praise to it, but I think the comments may have been taken out of context. Anyway, if you still want it..."

There are much better cold reading products available at much more reasonable prices.

Now, I got a question.... Is there books out with different techniques on how to handle misses?

On Jan 10, 2015, sbays wrote:

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On Jan 7, 2015, clairvoyant wrote:
This was one of the worst mentalism products I've ever purchased. Nothing that hasn't appeared in numerous other cold reading publications. The "system" is too basic and not explained well, and jumps all over the place.

Jheff also didn't like it, from his newsletter: "Morgan Strebler's ICE COLD - I have serious issues with this. The marketing is incredibly misleading, it's priced much higher compared to other similar items, the information on the DVD is not organized or presented in a way that delivers on its promise, and, most importantly, I found hardly anything original and/or worthy of the marketing and price that's being asked. Yes, I know Bob Cassidy and Marc Salem both seemed to give high praise to it, but I think the comments may have been taken out of context. Anyway, if you still want it..."

There are much better cold reading products available at much more reasonable prices.

I agree with Jheff's assessment of this product. Nothing new or original here. It is a haphazard "system" that obviously "borrows" from other sources. The routines and performances are uninspiring to say the least. This came off completely as a guy just trying to fake it. A DVD set priced at 150 dollars should be delivering big time. This should have been a 40 dollar set, but even at that price this would have been very disappointing.

I bought this purely on speculation based on some of the endorsements. Big mistake. 1 / 10 for me.