About Us

So who are we? What is MagicTricks.co.uk?

MagicTricks.co.uk is one of the leading online magic tricks stores in Europe. From small beginnings MagicTricks.co.uk has grown to be one of the largest stockists of magic products in Europe, which means our bulk buying allows us to pass on the saving to you as customers. Owned and operated by respected magician and Quick Change Artist Keelan Leyser and Charlotte Marie and their great team who have devoted their every waking minute to building MagicTricks.co.uk to make it the number 1 magic tricks company in Europe. The MagicTricks team love everything magic and take pride in offering you some of the best customer service you will find online as well as the most up to date and innovative magic products available. We also strive to make our website one of the most advanced not just in the magic industry but when compared to any ecommerce site you'll find on the internet. We listen to advice from customers and try to give them the best user experience online we can.

So how did all this happen?

We have been established since 1999 and were one of the first magic retailers to set up online. Founded by a couple called Carl Fraser and Wendy Simpson they began running MagicTricks.co.uk out of their basement, until it became too big and moved to a small warehouse in Ashford, Kent. After some years, MagicTricks outgrew the Ashford warehouse and moved to Headcorn, Kent and was eventually purchased by British Magic Grand Prix Champions Keelan Leyser and Charlotte Marie as Carl and Wendy had ventured into other online projects namely TotallyShoes.co.uk which grew, grew and grew as did MagicTricks.co.uk but in the end they could longer give MagicTricks.co.uk the time it deserved, and needed to concentrate on the shoe business.

As well as stocking all the staples of magic and high quality main stream products we are also proud to offer you some exclusive items that can only be found on our site - MagicTricks.co.uk. MagicTricks.co.uk has managed to gain a great reputation in the magic community, magic creators and inventors feel at ease about working with us on exclusive magic projects which allows us to pass on exclusive items only available through us to our loyal customers. We also pride ourselves in investing our profits back into researching new ground breaking magic effects, starting with the 'Leyser 2020 device' back in 2004 up to recently the 'Mind Pad' in 2010.

We are aware that there are hundreds of new magic tricks being released every month... however, we try to be selective and only stock the highest quality products. If we receive negative feedback regarding specific products for whatever reason, we look at each case individually then make a judgement as to whether we should continue stocking this item because of that negative feedback. We want our customers to be totally satisified with the products they receive as well as our customer service.

The Team

MagicTricks.co.uk has a large network of incredibly dedicated people that make the company work as well as it does. Headed by Keelan Leyser and Charlotte Marie who have an extensive background in both magic and ecommerce. Being working professional magicians and Quick Change Artists Keelan and Charlotte are in a prime position to road test the new magic that inventors bring out as well as sourcing great magic from all around the world during their international performances. Aside from that Keelan's role within the company is running the technical and programming side of the site. Charlotte handles the financial, product buying and accounting side of MagicTricks.co.uk Click here to read more about Keelan and Charlotte.

Jo Philips is our dedicated support staff member who is head of the support and helpdesk and always goes above and beyond to help out our customers with their questions, issues and concerns. Jo has been with MagicTricks.co.uk since 2004.

Mary Gilmartin is our fabulous warehouse manager, she oversees that the warehouse staff are sending all your products out as soon as possible so you can start using your tricks super quick.

Richard Reed is head of the video and media department. Aside from also being a professional magician Richard Reed was for many years a camera crew for the television show The Bill on ITV. Due to the fact that Richard has extensive knowledge of magic makes him the perfect Producer and Film Director of all our magic DVDs and visual media, making sure that he gets the right shots, the shots that a magician needs to see. MagicTrick.co.uk has it's own dedicated graphics, web design and animation experts in house. Nothing is subcontracted out which means we can pass on those saving to our customers.

Products and Shipping

We are proud to offer you same day dispatch on all items listed on our main website MagicTricks.co.uk at some of the most competitive shipping rates in the industry, we do not profit from shipping. All items advertised on this site are in stock and ready for same day dispatch - of which we will do on all orders placed before 2pm weekdays. All our UK orders go out by First Class Recorded delivery which means in many cases our customers receive their items the next working day. If customers aren't in a rush for their product or needs a trick we don't regularly stock MagicTricks.co.uk also has a special order sister site called MoreMagicTricks.co.uk which stocks over 7500 magic tricks with some of the best prices on the web.

Our Brands

MagicTricks Limited owns the company and brand MagicTrick.co.uk but over the years MagicTricks has developed further brands to assist magicians, hobbyists and professionals alike as well as corporate and private customers and clients with a number of new ventures, namely MoreMagicTrick.co.uk, our special order website, MagicTricksJunior.co.uk, our magic tricks site devoted to magic tricks for kids, MagicTricks.TV which is our Magic Tricks video website and MagicTricksCorporate.co.uk which is our corporate client information website.

Our support.

We have created a whole area on the site dedicated to customer support. We try to get back to all our enquiries as fast as possible and therefore encourage you to use our Helpdesk rather than emailing us directly as sometimes emails can get lost as we receive hundreds per day, but with the Helpdesk service everything is logged and it is checked continuously throughout the day.

We also try to provide you with as much information regarding products as is available to us, whether it be additional images or videos, customer feedback or reviews. Where possible we also provide a difficulty rate of 1 to 5. 1 being the easiest tricks (mainly designed for children) up to a 5 which is very difficult sleight of hand and difficult manouvers which are only recommended for the most skilled of magicians and professionals.

We have a large number of opted in customers that have signed up to receive our MagicTricks.co.uk newsletter which offers exclusive discounts and promotions for our loyal customers. We strongly believe in not spamming our customers, so only send emails every now and then and not every day or every other day like some other online magic retailers.