I try to stay away from all this and do my own thing. The recent emails however regarding a underground warhouse buying out certain popular magic products got my attention. The first thing I tried to do was contact the email sender only to find the email non existent. A lot of scam operations use these emails so they can't be tracked and they can get away with their scam using anonymizing service like Anonymizer or Zero Knowledge.
Why would a underground warehouse buy out popular magic products? Because magic is a huge industry. Think about it! Magic is a huge industry. The community is small, but the market is big. In order to keep the market flowing and growing, product has to move. I'm trying to understand if this anonymous email was coming from the underground itself or perhaps someone from the inside. Regardless, I can't determine what the benefit would be for the underground warehouse leaking this out. So my guess is someone from the inside that may of had a fallout.
In the world of inventing magic products many inventors have motives. Some just want to make as much as they can while others do it for the heart. I myself don't mind the money I make on my products such as Butterfly in a BOX, Magicians Tape, Turbo Tube and my most recent "Room Service" but I mostly do it for the heart. I truly love creating magic for magicians. It's very competitive. We have a lot of magic creators in the business. We need them to keep the guts of our art alive. You may think that creators are just pushing junk or candy on you like we are some sort of crack dealer, but it;s much more then that.
Every time a new effect comes out it sparks interest, motivation, imagination and creativity. When magic effects create these types of motivation and creativity it also creates new magicians. Some who may some day fill the big mans shoes so the magic food chain can keep thriving. Your probably wondering how this underground warehouse that buys our magic comes in. Well from what the person sending me this anonymous email said. They are buying magic product all the time. They apparently have a warehouse where they stock the purchased magic. Inside the warehouse everything is carefully documented and stored away. Some magic such as the Tenyo hard to find items are stored away in this warehouse. You might find them every now and then on ebay or at a magic flea-market.
What does buying out magic products do? It creates a felling of demand. When magicians go to make a purchase on a new product and they see it's sold out. It creates more demand for it. The warehouse can then control the market. it's almost like an area 51, but for magic. So far I'm not buying into this. How about you? I just thought this would make an interesting blog story. I highly doubt that my "Room Service" effect sold out in only 5 hours because some underground warehouse bought them all.
I was also told that this warehouse has several rooms where actors come in and out. Making videos and writing magic reviews to increase the demand. In the world of inventing there can be many perks and deals when sighed on to a company. It's all part pf the business. In the anonymous emailer he/she explained that it was like a underground mafia. Could buying out magic products have that much of a impact? I'm not really sure. I never really had a problem buying a new magic product, but them again I usually buy it right away because I have to have the hottest new magic toy. I guess creating a demand sounds like it could somewhat work, but would it generate that much money that they would hoard magic? I don't know. All I know is that there seems to be a lot of undergrounds going on here in the magic community. It's like we want to believe in magic so much that we are actually taking on the roles of forming secret societies and forming committees with important role titles.
Maybe there really is some un-discovered gem in magic. Maybe the whole part of magic is believing and playing the role of someone you're not. If we believe hard enough it just might come true. Maybe this so called "Secret Warehouse" is for the good. Maybe it regulates our magic so that the spark of new magic discovery will always be there.
I'm a little bit skeptical, but I am the Imaginator and well! I guess with Imagination anything is possible. So we are left with our own imagination to decide for us.
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