False assumption that consumers on penguin are immediately considered "magicians".

well when some specs are dying to know how i did some tricks..i always have one really easy no sleight of hand required card trick that i then do explain so they are happy and so do you when they stop asking for that other trick.

Don't expose them. I enjoy my secrets bieng kept, well, secret. I will sell my tricks, but only if the person is someone I can trust and not someone who will go up to everyone and say, "Hey, look what I can do!" Do it and then reveal it.

It'd be awesome to sell a coin-through-bottle bottle, I tricked my brothers that I had worked on my revolutionary new bottle for weeks .

I was offered a hundred bucks once to show a spectator how I did Ambitious Card. He actually through the hundred in front of me and said, "Show me how to do that and its yours." The dude was serious too... a richboy loaded with money wanting to spend it.

I didn't do it. Having some richboy flipping out and not getting what he wanted was more worth it actually! He ended up paying me well that night, as did the party he was with anyway, and I got a couple good paying gigs too.

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