Laurence Miller The Joker Bicycleman Pike Place Market Waikiki Santa Monica
Reports from some dissatisfied consumers:
VERY bad product!!
I bought the BicycleMan DVD on the Waikiki Street back in April 2007 directly from Laurence Miller. I wanted to stay there for some more time to watch him performing but I was in a hurry with some friends, so I had to leave soon. Next evening I came back in the same place to see some effects, but he was not there anymore, and I could find him anywhere else in Honolulu. I was there for a conference, so I had no time to watch the DVD, but I put it in my DVD player as soon as I came back home.
I was happy to see so many moves advertised in the intro clip and I was so impatient to learn them, but I was very disappointed when I realized that the DVD contains only some not-so-well explained effects (the only one worthing is Ambitious Card) and some cuts and flourish, for a total playing time of a little less than a hour (DVD claimed to contain material for 1:40!).
I'm still very disappointed about the poor quality and misleading content of this DVD, so I recently tried to send an email to Laurence to receive explanations and an eventual refund, but he never answered, so now that I understand that this was not a single case for me, I hope that he get in touch with his unsatisfied customers and be honest with them!
Shame on you, Tricycleman!!!
-Guido B.
May 27, 2009
I bought a Bicycleman DVD from Laurence Miller on the sidewalk in Waikiki in May of 2007. I didn’t find the tricks he claimed were taught on the disc. I gave him the benefit of the doubt and asked him about it when I saw him on the street again. Each time he told a different lie as to why I could not find the tricks he had promised.
Eventually, I asked for a refund, and when he refused, I filed a suit against him in the Honolulu District Court. When the process server handed him the paperwork and asked him, “Are you Laurence Miller?” he said, “No”. I witnessed it. He failed to appear in court and the judge issued a default judgment in my favor. He was served two copies of the judgment, one by mail and the other in person when he approached me in public to harass me. He failed to pay so I had him subpoenaed into court again for an Examination of Judgment Debtor hearing. He failed to appear and the judge issued a bench warrant for his arrest. About 55 minutes late to court, he pleaded with the judge to set aside the warrant. The judge did so and rescheduled the examination hearing.
He tried to file a motion to set aside the judgment claiming under penalty of perjury that he had never received the paperwork. His motion was denied.
At the second examination hearing I asked him if he wanted to pay the judgment or answer the examination questions. He said he wasn’t going to pay the judgment. He didn’t want to answer the questions either. While answering questions under oath before the judge he tried to make the judge think that he didn’t understand that all he had to do is pay the judgment and he wouldn’t have to answer the questions. So he paid the judgment. I got a refund, plus court costs.
-Craig D.
January 25, 2009
Thank you for replying, I really appreciate it and I would be happy to give you more information on Laurence Miller.
I actually have met him three times, all three performing on the street of Pike Place Market in Seattle. I bought the second DVD on the third visit. I was not planning on seeing him there. I was with several of my friends when he was performing. I had remembered him from previous times and bought his DVD on my second visit, I was very disappointed with it.
Now this is when he tried to sell me the DVD. I said I had an older one, (the one shot in a studio) from my second visit. He then when on about how this one was way better and he pulled out his iphone to show me the "new" intro and ad for it. The internet connection didn't work, so instead, he showed my some really cool moves (like the Chang Photo Change, which now I know is a rip off), I thought they were awesome, and he said they were on the DVD, then he went into the FISM thing. He said the pull back pass was his pass and that got him the FISM and sponsored by Bicycle brand cards. The man told me that he was a FISM award winner and that his pullback pass won him the FISM. I kept on saying no to the DVD but he sounded desperate to sell it to me, so he knocked $5.00 off the price (the DVD was $20.00), so I bought it. When I got back, I was pretty excited to see the new stuff, but it was just the same one I had bought before. He sold the dvd twice to me because the second time I had bought it he said that it was a whole new dvd. At first I didn't want to contact him because I thought it was just a misunderstanding, but then I begun to think it wasn't, but I never contacted him.
On his DVD, at the end of the intro it said cherrydeck.com, so recently out of curiosity, i visited.
-Adam T.
January 4, 2009
u are right about bicycleman. his material that he uses are stolen from other magicians. it is good that u are warning others about him. As for me.....im too late. i was conned into buying his membership. i wasted $40 (instead of $60 cuz he gave me a $20 dollar discount) on tutorials that have a poor explanation and understanding. his tutorials are basically just a slowed down performance... he also changes the name of a trick so it sounds new and exiting, but they are just a rip off of an original trick performed by real magicians. i regretted buying the membership from him. just because i practically wasted my money... Boy, that guy is such a D***!!!
But he did teach me one thing: the bicycleman is a D***!!!!
-Noel B.
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