e-magic 9.1
There are loads of general auction sites, ebay style, on the web but now there is a new one specially for magicians. It's a brand new UK web site launched and written by Kevin Gallagher. After being disappointed and concerned by some of the professional magic items that appeared on eBay, Kevin decided to launch an auction website which offered the same type of facility but which was restricted to magicians.The website has been live since the middle of August and has slowly risen in popularity and usage. Take up has inevitably been a little slow until the site gets established but there is no risk to the seller since it is possible, if desired, to set a minimum bid and reserve price to ensure that no valuable items go for silly money (unlike most magical society auctions!).
A Dutch Auction facility is also provided which allows numerous identical items to be sold at the same time with bidders indicating how many items they are bidding for. At the end of the auction, the items are awarded to the highest bidders in the order they were received until there are none left. It is hoped to encourage magic dealers to place clearance items here.The website basically provides the service of placing winning bidders in direct contact with sellers. There is no charge for either selling or buying, all costs are currently being absorbed by Kevin. To bid for an item or put one up for sale, it is simply a case of registering at http://www.magic-auction.co.uk and, after responding to the automatic confirmation email, the account is activated and ready for use.Some very worthwhile items have so far been sold so it is well worth taking a look from time to time. If you have a number of magical items you would like to sell, this will hopefully provide the perfect forum.It's very easy and quick to sign up, and you will be instantly ready to buy and sell items, it's like a HMC auction night 24/7!
Now to other web-news, there has been a number of new magical weblogs springing up. As you may recall from previous articles, a weblog is generally described as a chronologic, constantly updated site consisting of links and commentary, usually run by an individual or small group. I believe my site at http://www.magician.org.uk was possibly the first proper magical weblog to exist when it started over four years ago; it seems that just recently this has caught on, possibly due to the publicity given to weblogs by the media, as they begin to realise what this corner of cyber-publishing has to offer.
Steve Pellegrino has just started two new blogs. He updated the L&L publishing site and replaced the message board there with a new L&L blog (http://www.llpub.com/weblog) and a personal weblog (http://magic.atomicbrew.com/) which is subtitled ‘Magic rants from the Web’ and is quite a hard-hitting blog focusing on dodgy magic dealers and message board exploits.Kellar’s Nightmare (http://magic.typepad.com/kellar/) is a new weblog with categories focusing on General Info, News, Stage, Television and History, and the last new blog I have spotted is Gordon Meyer’s Rebuilding a Mystery (http://gordon.typepad.com/magic/).That’s it for this issue, don’t forget to sign up for Kevin Gallagher’s Magic Auction site, tell him Oracle sent you!
A Dutch Auction facility is also provided which allows numerous identical items to be sold at the same time with bidders indicating how many items they are bidding for. At the end of the auction, the items are awarded to the highest bidders in the order they were received until there are none left. It is hoped to encourage magic dealers to place clearance items here.The website basically provides the service of placing winning bidders in direct contact with sellers. There is no charge for either selling or buying, all costs are currently being absorbed by Kevin. To bid for an item or put one up for sale, it is simply a case of registering at http://www.magic-auction.co.uk and, after responding to the automatic confirmation email, the account is activated and ready for use.Some very worthwhile items have so far been sold so it is well worth taking a look from time to time. If you have a number of magical items you would like to sell, this will hopefully provide the perfect forum.It's very easy and quick to sign up, and you will be instantly ready to buy and sell items, it's like a HMC auction night 24/7!
Now to other web-news, there has been a number of new magical weblogs springing up. As you may recall from previous articles, a weblog is generally described as a chronologic, constantly updated site consisting of links and commentary, usually run by an individual or small group. I believe my site at http://www.magician.org.uk was possibly the first proper magical weblog to exist when it started over four years ago; it seems that just recently this has caught on, possibly due to the publicity given to weblogs by the media, as they begin to realise what this corner of cyber-publishing has to offer.
Steve Pellegrino has just started two new blogs. He updated the L&L publishing site and replaced the message board there with a new L&L blog (http://www.llpub.com/weblog) and a personal weblog (http://magic.atomicbrew.com/) which is subtitled ‘Magic rants from the Web’ and is quite a hard-hitting blog focusing on dodgy magic dealers and message board exploits.Kellar’s Nightmare (http://magic.typepad.com/kellar/) is a new weblog with categories focusing on General Info, News, Stage, Television and History, and the last new blog I have spotted is Gordon Meyer’s Rebuilding a Mystery (http://gordon.typepad.com/magic/).That’s it for this issue, don’t forget to sign up for Kevin Gallagher’s Magic Auction site, tell him Oracle sent you!
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