If you ever put out an effect, book or dvd.

If you ever have a trick of yours marketed, don't get it reviewed by Online Visions. Because any magician worth his salt is going to realize from the existing reviews that Shane doesn't know a good trick from a terrible one.

Go look at what he has reviewed and how many things get 10 out 10. Then work out how many deserve it. Maybe a handful.

I think those who got good reviews at Online-Visions either has something good and Shane just happens to like, or they've met Shane and given him a blow job.

Here's some examples:

http://www.online-visions.com/reviews/0410one.html - That's 9 out of 10 for 'One and Only' by Paul Harris. Now while Harris used to put out some good ideas, this one isn't worth the money at all. The One and Only is just equivoque, an envelople thicker than Steve Brooks and a bunch of double face cards. It's the exact idea anyone would first come up with for this effect and then cast aside as a bad idea.

http://www.online-visions.com/reviews/0410heirloom.html Heirloom gets 10 out 10! Why? Its trash. A cheap wallet that isn't good enough so you have to go buy the decent one as an extra, a bunch of photos, and a letter that says 'I will be off by one'. Sure its an improvement on Kentons Kollossal Waste Of Time, but its still a prediction that you have to confess to being wrong 2/3rds of the time.

http://www.online-visions.com/reviews/0406cig.html - Cigarette up the nose gets 10 out 10 too. This is the old shrinking wand idea stuck on an elastic pull. A two year old could come up with a better idea than this. I'm guessing that Gary Kosnitzky swallows.

http://www.online-visions.com/reviews/0102alida.html Ben Harris's Alida gets 9 out of 10. It's a fucking ear plug you balance a card on. It's not magic, its just shit.

http://www.online-visions.com/reviews/0411magiceyes.html - 9 out of 10 for a DVD full of effects that can be done many ways, now apparently 'improved' by the use of sticky tape - give me a break. Most magicians realized as soon as NFW was released that tape and cards is a crap idea.

http://www.online-visions.com/reviews/0407stainedglass.html - 10 out of 10 for a terrible, obvious idea from Adam Grace involving a small piece of glass and a dry erase pen.

http://www.online-visions.com/reviews/0502anywhere.html - See Cellini the offical hobo of magic doing a bunch of old tricks that aren't his. And again Shane gives this dross 9 out of 10.

I'm not saying all the stuff Shane gives a good rating to is terrible, but the ones where he gives a great review to a piece of shit really tarnish all the other reviews.

MW.