Hello fellow SMCers,

I am proud to annouce that I am launching a new online magic site to provide members with all your magicial needs. Attractive prices, latest products and no hidden costs! The best thing about Spellbound Magic Shop is you do not have to pay for expensive overseas shipping!

Its called Spellbound Magic Shop and here's the link:
www.spellbound-magicshop.com

Kindly register as a member and you can start shopping right away.

To celebrate the occasion, I am giving a 10% discount to all SMC members.
Just type "launchspecial" at the "Add Comments About Your Order" section during checkout and you will be included in the promotional offer.

The discount price will not be reflected during checkout but I will personally make sure that it will be done by me during order processing.

Wait there's more! The first 3 orders will receive a special free gift together with your order! Remember you have to register as a member in order to take part of this sales event.

As the the site is still quite new, you may not find some products you might be interested in. You can view my entire catalog over at www.murphysmagic.com . Just drop me an email under the "Contact Us" section and I will reply you asap with the price and availability of those products you display interest in.

Feel free to contact me regarding improvements on the website. I will do my utmost best to give you a hassle free online shopping experience.

I wish all SMCers a wonderful magical journey ahead.

Best Wishes,
Zhan Rui

congrets on your webbie!!
at last some were to crash at :)

Pardon me for asking but since the thread was meant to launch the website and announce a sales event, shouldn't it be in the marketplace? Any reason for it being moved to dealers reviews?

I mean reviews of this shop should come from members after their online shopping experience.

Because it is about you as a dealer and your online shop. :)
The reviews will naturally fall under this thread later.

You can have a seperate thread about the sale in the marketplace if you want.

Ok thanks.

Btw, will makanmonkey have the list of dealers up anytime soon? Been some time.

Actually, we are going to accept advertisments in SMC soon, just working out how to do it fairly. B)
That's why the list was taken off. in prep for that.

Actually, if you have any suggestions about what would be fair and how it could best benefit the dealers, please do let me know?

I was wondering about how is the product going to be delivered to us when we order it. we take it personally from you or?

For the time being, collection is on Saturdays at Dhoby Ghaut.
If you want the items shipped to you, it would incur additional postage charge.

Some new and interesting items added for the month of April.
Do check them out.

Register as a member and receive updates on new items added from time to time. Registration is free.

Magically yours,
Zhan Rui

My first shopping experience from SpellBound-MagicShop. All I can say is that Exo does a great job in the transaction, smooth and steady ^_^ . As a newbie in this community and art, Im very glad to say that Exohordon is one of the best dealers in SG. Its hard to say here ,but I guess you need to see it for yourself. Great Job Exo, keep it up :D . Watch out for new items at relatively good prices!

Should I be posting it here? Magic dealers review?

Regarding my experience with Spellbound Magic Shop:

I knew exohordon since 2004 as a normal member in SMC, was surprised to see him as one of SMC New Online Dealers, at first i wasn't very sure whom should i really get my stuff. Since i knew him for a long time, therefore i decided to try his new services out.

The first product which i got from him is "Subterfuge" also known as SMS, in the first stage of buying this products, i was very afraid to get something which i wasn't sure. Therefore i used to bombard him with lots and lots of question about different products beside subterfuge every night on MSN. At that point of time, he was offering this 10% discount due to the opening of his new shop.

As he were placing orders soon, i was told to make a decision whether to purchase the stuff i needed, then i decided to get Subterfuge from him. As my current ring was 12 (SG Size), i actually asked for a 13 (US Size). He told me, that 13 (US Size) would be a little too big for me, but as i was unsure of which size to get, i took the 13 (US Size) instead.

The fast services which he provided was Satisfying and a totally new experience compared to other magic shops in Singapore. When i got my ring, i was a little disappointed as the ring i got from exohordon was TOO BIG for me. After some thoughts, i asked him to replace the ring for me, i met him at Orchard as i was somewhere near that area and within a few days, he message me and told me that my ring is on the way to US.

One thing i would say is that he would actually tell you where is the current product right now, so you know roughly when will you receive your stuff.

This morning, he MSN me and told me that he was upset due to some "Subtefuge Problem" but ensure me that the ring is currently on the way back to Singapore and told me that i could collect my ring the moment it reaches Singapore.

After that i got another product from him, which i wouldn't really wish to mention, but the product was again delivered to me on time. Again the services which he's providing should be Commendable.

Services: 9/10 (He provides fast and reliable services no matter what happen)

Attitude: 10/10 (He always make the effort to do his business well and make his customer happy)

P.S: He treat his customers like friends and always advice me on what to get and what not to get.

This is my review for exohordon.

Good Day ! [Kindly Correct if there are any spelling mistakes] :g:

I'm posting this review on the Spellbound Magic Shop because I believe exohordon truly deserve this.

I knew Zhan Rui (i called him exo) when I was only 2 weeks old into the art as well as in SMC.

I remembered I ordered the Mark Wilson's Complete Guide to Magic (can't remember the name though) from exo. On the day of collection, I was told to meet him at the McDonald's near the Clementi Central, unluckily on that time when we are suppose to meet, IT RAINS!!! -_-"

Exo sent me a message and told me that he will be held up due to the rain. (it was pouring anyway) My heart was 1/2 sian liao, my subconsious was telling me, definitely he must be waiting for the rain to stop before he comes down. Which means I would have to wait.

BUT...15 mins later, I received a call from him, saying he already reached and was asking me where am I (it was still raining by the way). I was surprised!! It was not because he was driving thus "escaping" from the rain was easier. But it was his sense of responsibility in not wanting his customer to wait too long for their collection. *Thumbs up*

Exo was also extremely patient with me when I kept cancelling, re-ordering and cancelling my orders. I don't ask a lot of questions about the effect, as long as the description is good, I will buy it...(a bit of those suckers) *lolz*

Anyway back to the topic, there was alot of last minute cancellation and yet not a word of unhappiness from him (at least he did not show it in front of me) *laugh*

Even sometimes I felt a bit paiseh when I got to delay payments even when I've collected the items.

Thumbs up for this dealer!

After knowing Exo for a while, he gives a really good attitude towards his customers. He is VERY patient in everything, he cares for customers and he is a trully wonderful dealer(and magician too). He gives good prices too, he gave me a very good price for a upcoming product and I shall not reveal any infomation about this.


Exo is a trully wonderful person to meet. Seeing is Believing.

Personally, I buy stuff online from mainly Hocus Pocus and sometimes Penguin but I just felt that I really had to share this so I'm coming out from my lurking place. I'm seriously not sure about trusting Exohordon after knowing the same guy has been kicked out of the Genii forums for selling pirated products and ripping people off. Dude, don't get me wrong. I'm not slandering the man. But just so you know the truth and not just believe one side the guy shows you. It's all here:

http://geniimagazine.com/forum/cgi-bin/ult...c;f=14;t=005010

They found out Exohordon's real name and his singapore address man. Just scroll down towards the bottom and you'll see... Richard Kaufman was so pissed our local brother was ripping people off and apologised about it. Serious stuff. I wont ever trust this guy man. I hope moderators don't flame me for posting the truth. It's just good for people to know.

Disgrace to singaporean!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

All the issues and complaints raised were resolved privately with the buyers more than a year ago.

Exo's a good man. i went to singapore, met up with him just to get my order anbd after a few months i received my order when i went back home.

He's really a good man.

Peace out brother.

Can't seem to access the weblink.

Because he actually posted the wrong address. Here you go:
http://www.spellbound-magicshop.com/magicshop/

It's a little outdated though.

No offence "Exo" but dude, your one liner reply in the previous page does not hold a lot of weight. Look man, if you really did rectify all those dishonest things you did at the genii magic forums (piracy, fake names, fake addresses, false personal information, etc.), would the moderators still ban you?

You still have international magicians who are pissed off man, at what you did to them. Would they if you 'cleared everything up'? People aren't unreasonable by nature. You don't have to say anything but you know if you're trustworthy in character or not dude.

What I'm really upset about dude, is that what you did as a dishonest pirate reflects very badly on us Singaporean magicians on the whole. It is because of people like you that we have difficulties engaging in overseas transactions man. Where's your morals? The magician code, man!

Let me just say this man. It was an American magician who pointed out that YOU were the reason why he refuses to transact anything with Singaporean magicians.

Those who contacted me either had their payments reversed or refunded over time. Maybe you would like to let me know that American magician who still bears grudges against me and I will personally contact him to resolve the matter once and for all.

First of all, i am a paying customer of SpellBound Magic Shop. I have done many kind of transaction in Singapore Magic Circle with all the dealers in here. Exohordon, Cynwell, Ning and Illusionist(Mac)

Everyone has a past, and i believe that everyone is regretful of his or her past. Whatsmore i believe that exohordon had already tried to resolve everything and put everything to the back of his life.

Yes, you were saying reflecting badly on Singapore Magicians. Well it did reflect badly, but i believe there will be better Magicians to correct this error, whatsmore alot of magic shops are doing this. If you want to stop this, you have to start from the roots. I think this thing about reflecting badly on Singapore Magicians, we would have to think of a way to solve this problem and cultivate the young one not to follow the steps of us. I mean we are all Singaporeans, we know that exohordon is not the only 1 right ?

I believe he has already changed for the better ever since he understood the Ethics of Magic.

The post and claims were in Year 2005 which was like more than 1 year. 1 Year is enough to change someone, i believe everyone has the rights to change over and become a better man. The question is that "Are you ready to accept his changes (In the good way) ?"

Whatsmore he did reverse the transaction or refund the people whom contact him.

Let me tell you this: If anyone doesn't wish to transact with Singaporean Magicians because of this matter, this mean that he's "erm", i can't find the words for this, even if i can. I would find this very insulting.

Just because of 1 thing which was consider a foolish mistake, he didn't want to transact with Singaporean Magicians, a man with great ambition should know better, never let minor things affect your judgement.

From the way i trade with him, exohordon prices are Reasonable, do a comparison and you will find out, meet him up and you will know how friendly is he. He is willingly to reverse, refund and forget. So are the people out there "Are you ready to forgive and forget" and accept a dealer which would provide you the service which you will never regret.

There were times, when i didn't bring enough cash and i had to pay him some other day. He trusted me and allowed me to do so. Simply refer to my earlier review on his company service and you will know. By not insisting on advanced payments, exohordon is building his business based on trust. Since he is willingly to trust his customers, don't you think it's time WE forgive, forget and trust him in return.

Good Day ~
Winder

Dude, while I understand you are trying to defend your friend, piracy is still not right. Exo is still guilty even though "he may not be the only one". Dude, while piracy may happen in Singapore because many people engage in it, aren't dealers supposedly "the roots" as well? It doesn't make it okay that Exo is "not the only one". He is running a magic shop business right?

Man. I have no intention of blowing this up but you saying he reversed the transaction or refunded those who contacted him, is only based only on what Exo says, man. The man has no records of others he didn't refund? Too many to recall? Get real.

A real gentleman would make the move to reach out those he had hurt instead of conveniently reacting to only those who (successfully?) contact him. Winder, dude, I know you're trying to be nice man, but I'm quite taken aback by the excuses (or reasonings) you gave for Exo's actions but this is merely my own personal sentiments. It is NOT the job of other Singaporean magicians to clear up the sh*t Exo created. Unless you tell me Exo is a kid, fine. But anyone who is running a business cannot be naive enough to not think for a second that he is not running a scam job like what Exo did on genii.

Damage done dude, at the end of the day, we are a very small country. I am very saddened too but we can't change people's perception of Singaporeans should they encounter a bad egg. It's not fair to judge these outsiders or call them names for their personal point of view because they did get scammed in the first place. I think this is something you have to experience first hand man, to know what I mean.

This will be my last post on this page. I will not turn this into a flaming debate because it is not my point to. But dude, if you really love magic, its rules and ethics and morals should begin from 'you'.

You don't just leave it to someone else, man. How can we cultivate the ones behind us if we don't do anything about this problem? All of us should be responsible and take up ownership. Peace.

The incident happened long before I engaged into this dealership business. I tried my best to clear up the mess before starting afresh. Once again, my words may not carry weightage but it's one's choice to believe. That is why I prefer to use actions to proof that I am running a legitimate business here. My customers can vouch for me.

Ian, like I said in my previous post, please provide me the name of the American magician who still bears grudges against me. You can choose to Pm if you do not want to post his name on a public forum. I will do my best to resolve the issue.

Mr Ian, whoever you are, I am not sure what you are trying to prove. The story about Exo is history. This happened soooo long ago before he became a dealer. Yes, he regretted alot about this incident and he was perhaps foolish back then. He had already sorted out the matter with the people who were involved and the case is close.

In any case, many people have supported him being a dealer now is because we know him in person. And thus, we trust him. He is no longer what he used to be. He is very honest in his dealings, fast and efficient. We get our orders on time and I believe none of us have encountered any sort of problems when dealing with him.

I believe he has already changed for the better. Even if you don't know him in person, after meeting him, you'll soon realise that he is one friendly dude. I keep going back to him because I know I can rely on him to get my stuffs fast and on time. There are times that I ran out of cash by the time the orders arrive, due to my "itchy fingerness" who likes to keep spending on new stage props... Knowing him for quite a while already, he even allowed me to take my orders first and paying him the remaining amount on a later date. He certainly has changed. And I know, he already understood what ethics in magic is all about.

With regards,
Shufi

In the first place, i didn't say that piracy was right, but everyone is doing it, and if they are willingly to STOP, shouldn't we encourage them ?

I guess i didn't make myself clear enough, the meaning of that sentence is to say if the roots and other people are willingly to stop, why should we keep saying that they are doing piracy stuff when they have already stop. The Magic Hall is 1 good example, they actually stop dealing with this kind of things and they should be praised. So shouldn't we encourage them to stop piracy instead of just saying "since you have done piracy, nothing can be changed ?"

"It doesn't make it okay that Exo is "not the only one". He is running a magic shop business right?"

All the bad stuff happens before exohordon even started his business, and i believe his passion and ethics for magic is there too. Therefore providing services for all his customers, a better service in the magic industry.

Answer: I wasn't trying to say that exohordon is not the only one, i was stating, beside exohordon there are others. We know there are others in this forum too, just that they don't stand up and tell us their darkest secret. I believe it's not very easy for someone to have this kind of history and wishes to clear everything up.

I don't know whether exohordon has their contacts or not, or like what you said he waited for people to contact him.

About the other Singapore Magicians part, i wasn't expecting you to interprete that we have to clean this mess up, just that whats done is done, shouldn't we as Singapore Magicians increase the standard that we put for ourselves and show to others that we aren't like the rest. So just because something damaging is done, do we just sit back and watch this "conflict". As Singapore Magician, if the other foreign magician do have a comment or feedback from us, shouldn't we start from the comment or feedback ?

This is not helping exohordon to clean up his stuff, but to raise our standing in the magic industry. Secondly, i am sorry about those Foreign magician whom got scammed, maybe like what exohordon said, you can try to ask the other magicians to message exohordon to try and resolve this problem, as a Magician myself, i don't wish to see the Black Mark been left behind by other foreign magicians. I have done trading all kind of trading on ebay and etc, i do get scammed too, there are very little things which you can do about this too. Take this as a lesson, which i always do and check for rating and etc.

Like what you said "don't leave it to someone else", i do agree with that. Thats why he's trying to rectify the problem ?

Like what you said either "we are a very small country", so shouldn't we unite together, work harder and show other magicians that we are different from the rest.

The point of this review is not to flame or to debate, it's simply just to clear up the air and present my humble opinion on what i have for the dealer: exohordon.

I have no intention of hurting/insulting or offend anyone, sorry if i did offended you Ian.

What i suggest is that is if we do have the time, WE as in those magician who wish to clear any doubts and want to know more about this dealer: exohordon, we can have a cup of coffee and at the same time, take this as a small outing to interact with other magicians.

P.S: Ian, how about a cup of coffee ?

Good Day ~

Winder

OMG! Take-5! Clear the air! :wacko: Chill people... ok, can we please stick to this being a thread that gives dealer reviews accordingly and not like, a flame war? This is looking like some mega-long debate on enthical issues or something! :lol: No offense to all parties, but this is me as Miss Ning the SMC moderator, speaking.

*ahem* Can we just move on please? ^_^

I'm sure everyone in SMC who happens to be a magic dealer would know much better than to engage in fishy business or pirate magic. We are very sticky about that and what exohordon did is now past :) Cadbury made that mistake before when he first joined but he's now back after the imposed suspension & I'm sure he goes by the proper rules and regulations now!

So, forgive and forget! ;) Just help SMC make this a better place, and yes, Winder is right (good fer ya, twin!)... let's encourage the peeps that are anti-piracy :bg: Okies??? No more flaming now *wags finger*

Ning :P

Mr Ian (or whoever you are) which part of,

or

you don't understand?

What are you trying to do by posting such a link in here? And mind you, its your first post. Are you trying to sow discord in here?

Personally, I'm also a paying customer of the Spellbound Magic Shop, I have never been once scammed by Exo or anything similar. He has been very patient and responsible for his customers' stuffs and queries. On the other hand, his prices, in my perspective are very reasonable.
If Mr Ian don't understand what it means by 'reasonable', I took the liberty to check it out for you on Dictionary.com,

And you listen up Mr Ian, I'm not defending a friend, this is a dealers review section, so these posts in here are truthful words from all the fellow magicians who have patronise the dealers in this forum.

You mentioned you order only from Hocus Pocus and in addition you are a new forum member, so I'm assuming you have no purchasing experience from any of the dealers here? Or know any of the people in here? Why are you doing all this and making such defaming remarks on ZERO purchasing experience??!!!

Stop picking on people mistakes, the poor guy has already tried to made amendments to the incident, and for goodness sake it happen before he got the dealership AND IT HAPPENED 1 YEAR AGO!!!!

I hope everybody just forget this matter already, (it shouldn't even be worth archiving) The reviews by all fellow SMC will shed light on how good/bad a dealer is. So we do not need a stranger coming in and post such nonsense in here to create havoc.


And no, Mr Ian, Exo did not pay me to write all these.

As Ning stated, we do not wish for a flame war to start on the forums. Ian, if you have any resentments towards me, kindly Pm me and we'll try to resolve the matter gentlemanly and peacefully.

For all those who spoke up for me, thank you very much. I really appreciate it and that means alot to me.

I am sure all the dealers will agree it is not easy running a one man show. Having to carry all the heavy boxes and making multiple trips during collection days. It's a tough job but somebody has to do it. At the end of the day, we just want to help fellow magicians by providing affordable magic minus the high shipping costs.

I have done wrong in the past and I learnt from my mistakes. I hope I can be given the chance to move on. I won't drag on with big theories and words. I believe action speaks louder. If anyone wishes to know me as a dealer or a friend, feel free to drop me a msg. I treat all my customers as friends.

Peace out,
Zhan Rui

That's enough. Bigbadwolf's post is going to be last of that kind. If there is going to be one more post about, I'm deleteing it from this thread. As mentioned... Please take all disgruntled resentments and resolve them some place else, all things noted.

I understand where everyone is coming from. All of you who have posted. But there is no more need for hostile words that do not promote any resolution and only propogate resentment.

Bigbadwolf, I would greatly appreciate next time you view my moderator note seriously. No more of this annoying debate.

We now are moving on. End of chapter.

Ning

I recommend buying from exo. He's a hell of a nice guy. He even gave me a free DVD for waiting for him! Heh. His prices are very reasonable and good. His positive attitude makes customers want to buy from him again in the future, and I think I definitely will =)


Truly,

Syafiq

Actually, Im not sure on how to use the website. What are u selling?? And I just realised that i just dug up an old post
Sorry

Is spell bound down? I can't access it.


ZiAn

PM exo... maybe he's been busy :)