Best site to sell magic?

[pizzapie567]

hey i was wondering what the best site to sell a really good magic trick i invented would be. i was thinking either pubtricks or illcenter. please help me.

[Magic Orthodoxy]

Well... the BEST way would be to:

1. First find the contact information for companies that actually make magic tricks (not sell them). Look at some of your favorite tricks and see who the manufacturers are. Find their email or 1-800 #'s or better yet, find their actual addresses.

2. Next, send out a letter requesting their "submission guidelines" each company will be different. Some will ask just for a write up, some will ask for a video, some will ask for you to send them a demo. Each company will ask for a different thing, so you need to find out in advance what they require - if you don't do this step - chances are your submission will end up in the trash. Some companies are very particular about accepting unsolicited effects.

3. After that, you wait.

Chances are – unless you have a name for yourself – they won’t even consider you. Names drive effect sales these days. It’s hard enough to drive interest in effects as it is. But good luck

Let me also add, make sure that if there are any sleights that you are using that were invented by other magicians - it generally is good form to get their permission to use them in a marketed effect - especially since you will make money on their invention.

You also need to make darn sure this effect has NEVER been done before, not even close. So bounce the idea off of some magicians who have been around a while (people older than 30) and let them give you their opinions.

And if you used the search feature, you’d see this question has been asked and answered already.

http://www.learnmagictricks.org/forum/showthread.php?t=15120&highlight=market+effect

[James]

hey i was wondering what the best site to sell a really good magic trick i invented would be. i was thinking either pubtricks or illcenter. please help me.

If you know the effect isn't going to make it big, and your doing it for just a little extra cash on the side, then I suggest you use pubtricks. If however you think you have an amazing original effect that could make it big take the advice in the post above.

[pizzapie567]

ok thanks guys ill see and look through it some more. and ill look at the other forum. sorry i didnt search.but what about illcenter? is that better than pubtricks?