The Old MagicVideoDepot (MVD) Exposed

[Mark]

Originally Posted by sameoldsameold

A few facts, Mark.

Let's actually give a few facts, okay?

JK was never one of your haters. Most members of MVD found your grandiose forum posts quite hilarious, though JK never once commented on them. I guess it suits your purpose to portray him as one of your haters, given the fact that you have recently now tried to discredit him in another thread on this forum.

Actually, JK was the very first person to hate on me, which he did in the comment sections of my videos. He even apologized for this specifically in a phone call I have had with him. It's even the only thing he apologized for.

Re your performance videos. Simply put, there were none. You have never posted any real live performance videos in the entire time you have been on the internet posing as a magician. This is why people question your integrity, I see nothing has changed.

In fact, there were real live performance videos like 'Crazy Man's Handcuffs', an 'ACR', the 'Force Impossible' idea.

Re Force Impossible. You actually marketed the method for this, it was bought from you by an experienced magician, a staff member of MVD who exposed it as being a fake. As a result you left MVD in disgrace when members asked if you would be refunding the people who had bought the so-called "method" in good faith.

You are confused with the 'Casino Control'. The 'Force Impossible' release wasn't called fake on by anyone, ever. Your statement makes me believe that whatever you said in your post isn't based on what you witnessed yourself. Basically, everything you say can be found in and through posts by Mr. Musgrave on The Magic Café. I don't read anything original or anything actually checked (research rule #1: one source is no source). You should have known better, especially if you are who I think you are.

Re the magic competition that you won on MVD. Your video was one of only three entries nominated by the MVD staff and wizards, you won fair and square. Why would the staff and wizard members nominate your video as a potential winner if they were against you? Why are you continuing to bash and criticise the staff of MVD? They were always on your side when the rest of us wanted you banned. You say that Magic Depot took 9 months to send your prize, what has that got to do with the administrator of MVD who only hosted the competition?

Absolutely false. The competition was, as I said earlier, hosted by The Magic Depot (by Aaron Smith with Magic.org to be exact). They sent the administrator of Magic Video Depot the prize to send to the winner, as well as a second copy to be sure the winner would receive one. The contest ran without me even realizing it (every video submitted that month automatically entered the contest, and those were quite a bunch). And I won.

The Admin then said he sent me my prize, didn't happen. He then was asked by Mr. Smith to send me the second copy, didn't happen. The way he said he sent the second copy was too ridiculous too. He first said he personally shipped it the same day, but the very next week he said that he had his girlfriend just bring it to the post office. I told and showed Mr. Smith everything, who then decided to send me the prize by himself (a third copy may I add, as the Admin made the original two disappear into thin air.. or into his own magic collection). I received it from him in no time. It wasn't a prize to die for, but I'm more about morals which someone was obviously lacking.

I notice on Youtube there was a lot of trouble when you actually arranged a competition yourself but never handed over the promised prize to the winner. A lot of money was promised, was it not?

Actually, that winner got his money but has shown to be a liar who wanted more than just that money. Everyone who followed the situation could tell you that. He removed all the claims about not getting his money from his channel and videos too, which he wouldn't have if he wouldn't have gotten his money.

Also, I have had many more contests than just that one (although that one just happens to be by far the biggest one). In the 'Homebase Music Contest' I gave away microphones and stands worth over 650 euros in total (6 winners), in the 'Reveal Sandwitches' magic contest I gave away 100 bucks of cash, I sponsored some magic contests worth 200 bucks in total, and the winner of the 'YouTalent Contest' (the big one) ended up being paid too.. and yes, that was quite a lot of money. Indeed, everyone got their prizes. I have to add that most of the money came from sponsors, but it sure proves I'm a fake, doesn't it? (Yes, that last part is sarcastic.)

Magician and now a music producer too?

I've been a music producer far before I got into magic. And I take huge care of my artists (musicians and magicians). I'm willing to spend hundreds of bucks and hours on them, without there being quite as much in return.

Re the "hidden" thread about you. As I recall this was not in an admin only area, it was in an advanced member area and started by an advanced member aka: a wizard. It called on the staff to suspend your account, you will notice that they refused.

The thread in question actually was started by someone who wanted to have me turned into a Wizard. That is when hell broke loose and a bunch of admins and moderators said I should be suspended instead. But in the end, even when I asked to be removed or suspended, they didn't do it for the fact a lot of the regulars liked me, I actually helped a whole lot of them with their magic, and not to forget the fact I won the contest and was mentioned in the Hall of Fame, which I really couldn't care less about.

The MVD staff did not manipulate anything around you, you in fact attempted the manipulation but failed miserably. We members wanted you banned from the forums but the staff without exception wanted you to remain. Perhaps they found you amusing when we simply found you profoundly irritating?

Check your facts please. There is a reason so many people left when that thread about me got public. Fact is that I talked to almost a hundred members on MSN (including tens of inactive members at the time) and I shared the link with every single one of them. They saw it with their own eyes and plenty of the active ones made the decision of leaving independently.

You say that you asked for your account on MVD to be deleted, yet you immediately made several comebacks on the site under different names, once even using the name DarkSleightZ. Tres familiar?

Because my account wasn't actually deleted, and whenever it was disabled it would magically reappear a day later. For that, I had a couple of friends and an assistant of mine make accounts to communicate through, yes. These people actually used the accounts themselves too for what it was worth. It's not that it changes anything.

Did I mention that in the big anti-exposure petition that was started by MVD, some haters actually put my avatar and signature next to the most outrageous nicknames? My picture was in there more than anything, and only once with my own name. Real mature. And no wonder it didn't lead to anything.

Mark, you are all over the internet, dining out on the fact that you once won a minor magic competition and your mistaken belief that the great and good of magic are insanely jealous of your "skill", when actually you are probably not even on their radar. It has been proven over and over that you are a narcissistic, egocentric manipulator but you constantly invent alter egos who say they have seen you perform/ talk to you on MSN. It appears you are doing the same thing here on this site, they are very easy to spot.

You entertain me as always but please can you come up with some new patter, the old stuff is wearing a bit thin.

Your words, the words of a true disbeliever who is just like any hater who doesn't want to be proven wrong. Everyone on here can beg to differ, and I would be a true wizard if each of them would be an alter ego of mine. Their own videos must involve some amazingly animated holograms then.

Also, I never said the problem is that "the great and good of magic" are insanely jealous of me. I don't even think so. I think the main problem is that these people were all taught by others, either in person or by magic products, thereby being limited to what they know and thus overlooking a whole lot of things and possibilities out there.

Thanks.