Comments on: A DVD I Didn’t Plan To Like http://www.intenselymagic.com/2005/11/a-dvd-i-didnt-plan-to-like A different perspective of the strange little world of magic and conjuring Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:09:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: EuanMBingham http://www.intenselymagic.com/2005/11/a-dvd-i-didnt-plan-to-like/comment-page-1#comment-50 EuanMBingham Thu, 05 Jan 2006 18:34:00 +0000 http://intenselymagic.com/2005/11/15/a-dvd-i-didnt-plan-to-like/#comment-50 There's nothing vindictive about keeping the truth alive. I suppose in your eyes all the people who celebrate Remembrance Day are also 'vindictive bastards', mister anonymous...<br/><br/>Euan There’s nothing vindictive about keeping the truth alive. I suppose in your eyes all the people who celebrate Remembrance Day are also ‘vindictive bastards’, mister anonymous…

Euan

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.intenselymagic.com/2005/11/a-dvd-i-didnt-plan-to-like/comment-page-1#comment-48 Anonymous Fri, 23 Dec 2005 22:26:00 +0000 http://intenselymagic.com/2005/11/15/a-dvd-i-didnt-plan-to-like/#comment-48 --I don't intend to let people for get who (and what)he is......<br/><br/>Ah, I see. You'll prove what a vindictive bastard is by being one yourself. All the while continuing to spread "facts" which are anything but.<br/><br/>Nice. –I don’t intend to let people for get who (and what)he is……

Ah, I see. You’ll prove what a vindictive bastard is by being one yourself. All the while continuing to spread “facts” which are anything but.

Nice.

]]> By: Intensely Magic http://www.intenselymagic.com/2005/11/a-dvd-i-didnt-plan-to-like/comment-page-1#comment-46 Intensely Magic Thu, 01 Dec 2005 15:54:00 +0000 http://intenselymagic.com/2005/11/15/a-dvd-i-didnt-plan-to-like/#comment-46 Thanks for commenting.<br/><br/>My problems with Youell revolves around the "how", more than the "what". Frankly I think he's a cruel liar and hypocrite.<br/><br/>I've seen the email to an old man, like me, where he chides him with "have a good life - or what's left of it". There are other examples.<br/><br/>When he says he notified all subscribers when things were late - that's an out and out lie.<br/><br/>....and changing his email to a Bible citation is the ultimate hypocrisy - at least to me.<br/><br/>I don't intend to let people for get who (and what)he is......<br/><br/>Take care.....<br/>i/m Thanks for commenting.

My problems with Youell revolves around the “how”, more than the “what”. Frankly I think he’s a cruel liar and hypocrite.

I’ve seen the email to an old man, like me, where he chides him with “have a good life – or what’s left of it”. There are other examples.

When he says he notified all subscribers when things were late – that’s an out and out lie.

….and changing his email to a Bible citation is the ultimate hypocrisy – at least to me.

I don’t intend to let people for get who (and what)he is……

Take care…..
i/m

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.intenselymagic.com/2005/11/a-dvd-i-didnt-plan-to-like/comment-page-1#comment-45 Anonymous Thu, 01 Dec 2005 07:24:00 +0000 http://intenselymagic.com/2005/11/15/a-dvd-i-didnt-plan-to-like/#comment-45 You might note that Youell eventually delivered all promised articles(6 months worth), albeit a few months late.<br/><br/>And all those who subscribed past that amount (6 months worth of articles) were appropriately refunded. You might note that Youell eventually delivered all promised articles(6 months worth), albeit a few months late.

And all those who subscribed past that amount (6 months worth of articles) were appropriately refunded.

]]> By: Scot http://www.intenselymagic.com/2005/11/a-dvd-i-didnt-plan-to-like/comment-page-1#comment-42 Scot Wed, 16 Nov 2005 14:39:00 +0000 http://intenselymagic.com/2005/11/15/a-dvd-i-didnt-plan-to-like/#comment-42 You really hit the nail on the head with this one. But until we stop buying this crap that's out there, it will never stop. You really hit the nail on the head with this one. But until we stop buying this crap that’s out there, it will never stop.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.intenselymagic.com/2005/11/a-dvd-i-didnt-plan-to-like/comment-page-1#comment-43 Anonymous Wed, 16 Nov 2005 14:39:00 +0000 http://intenselymagic.com/2005/11/15/a-dvd-i-didnt-plan-to-like/#comment-43 I have always been shocked by the total lack of standards exhibited by professionals in magic when it comes to undertakings such as trade magazines and newsletters. Stan Allen at Magic, I think, raised the bar by producing a timely, quality product, a standard unheard of in the magic world before the inauguration of his magazine. The "Always late but always great" Genii, for example, was a travesty until Richard Kaufman took the reins and placed it an a more professional footing. Most newsletters have taken subscribers' money and never fully delivered. I believe that once a person takes money for a performance there is a contract to deliver. All the subscribers get is whiny excuses like the dog at this issue. Where are the final issues of Ted Lesley's, Dan Harlan's, Bob LaRue's newsletters? Again, although very late, Richard Kaufman at least managed to produce all four issues of Looking Glass. The standards (and I use that term loosely) experienced in magic circles are appalling. I am sure the producers of these perennially late and incomplete publications would be first to decry a professional performer who hid not show up to a performance on time; but their own parctices in failing to deliver promised issues is the equivalent on not only failing to show up on time, but also failing to show up at all AND taking payment for the performance never delivered.<br/><br/>Spare me from the sob-sister apologists who tell us that we should be grateful the we get even the aborted subscriptions. I am not so ravenous for "secrets" that I would find this behavior acceptable. I say that if someone undertakes to do something and takes payment for it, he better follow through. If ha can't, he had no domn business <br/>taking a subscriber's money in the first place. <br/><br/>Now, THAT'S a real ethical gap. I have always been shocked by the total lack of standards exhibited by professionals in magic when it comes to undertakings such as trade magazines and newsletters. Stan Allen at Magic, I think, raised the bar by producing a timely, quality product, a standard unheard of in the magic world before the inauguration of his magazine. The “Always late but always great” Genii, for example, was a travesty until Richard Kaufman took the reins and placed it an a more professional footing. Most newsletters have taken subscribers’ money and never fully delivered. I believe that once a person takes money for a performance there is a contract to deliver. All the subscribers get is whiny excuses like the dog at this issue. Where are the final issues of Ted Lesley’s, Dan Harlan’s, Bob LaRue’s newsletters? Again, although very late, Richard Kaufman at least managed to produce all four issues of Looking Glass. The standards (and I use that term loosely) experienced in magic circles are appalling. I am sure the producers of these perennially late and incomplete publications would be first to decry a professional performer who hid not show up to a performance on time; but their own parctices in failing to deliver promised issues is the equivalent on not only failing to show up on time, but also failing to show up at all AND taking payment for the performance never delivered.

Spare me from the sob-sister apologists who tell us that we should be grateful the we get even the aborted subscriptions. I am not so ravenous for “secrets” that I would find this behavior acceptable. I say that if someone undertakes to do something and takes payment for it, he better follow through. If ha can’t, he had no domn business
taking a subscriber’s money in the first place.

Now, THAT’S a real ethical gap.

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