Beggars' Blessings Ebook
/Beggars’ Blessings, the ebook that collects the trick recommendations from the Better With Weber contest will be sent out by the end of the day today.
The ebook contains 280 trick recommendations from other Jerx readers as well as a couple bonus items plucked from some older releases by Michael Weber himself.
As he describes them:
The first is an experience where the real magic happens over time and distance. Something you give your participant transforms after he takes it home.
The second is a great (and very fair feeling) little swindle that allows you to have an associate get the money out of his pocket and pay for lunch.
If you don’t receive the ebook then one of these things happened:
I screwed up. Let me know and we’ll sort it out.
You didn’t follow the rules of the contest as delineated in the post on April 2nd. In which case, your email was probably filtered out at some point along the way. Ask yourself, “Did I provide him the information he asked for?” If the answer is “No,” then that’s why you weren’t on the ebook mailing list. If you’re in this group that did respond, but just didn’t do so correctly, you can still get a copy of the ebook by sending me an email with the subject line: I’m a big dumb dummy. And in the email explain what you did wrong. The point of this is not to shame you. The point of it is to make you jump through at least as many hoops as the people who did it properly jumped through. If you got the same reward for screwing up that the people who did it right received, that wouldn’t be very fair to the people who did it right.
You didn’t contribute a submission to the ebook. In which case, why would I assume you’re interested in it? If you’d like one you can buy a copy for $5.
(“Oh, so this was some money-making scheme?” Yeah, that’s right. You figured it out. My big money-making scheme was to give away $600 worth of magic products. Then spend a couple days of my life collating and formatting a 300 page ebook that I gave away free to anyone who expressed an interest in it over the course of eight days. Then, so as not to completely shut-out the few people who would want the ebook but missed those posts—while at the same time keeping the “bonus” aspect of this for those who did contribute to the ebook—I’m making it available for $5. Hold on. Thanks for reminding me. I need to call my bank and tell them to clear out some space in the vault, so we’ll have room for all my new monies!”)
You’ll have the ebook later tonight. If you expect it and don’t see it, check your spam. If it doesn’t show up by tomorrow, then you can contact me.