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No. Erdnase Magic Store (erdnasemagicstore.io) is not a legitimate retailer. It is a piracy operation that sells magic books, videos, and digital content without the knowledge or permission of the creators. None of the money paid to this site reaches the artists and publishers who produced the work. It is not a discount store — it is a theft operation with a professional-looking front end.
No, it is not safe — in several senses. There is no verifiable company behind the site, no enforceable refund policy, and no guarantee your payment details are handled securely. The site operates anonymously and has actively moved between domains to evade takedowns, which means consumer protection is effectively zero. Buying from this site is also illegal in most jurisdictions — receiving knowingly pirated content carries copyright liability even for the purchaser.
Because the content doesn't belong to them. The prices are not discounts — they're what happens when a seller has no production costs, no royalties to pay, and no rights to respect. The creators receive nothing. If you see a magic book, lecture, or video being sold at a fraction of its normal price, that is almost always a sign it has been pirated.
It depends what you mean by scam. You typically do receive a file — so it's not a scam in the sense of taking your money and delivering nothing. But it is operating illegally, distributing stolen content, misrepresenting itself as a legitimate retailer, and collecting payment with no accountability. It is certainly not a store you can trust, and it is certainly harming the creators of what you're buying.
Treat any reviews on or near the site with extreme scepticism. Piracy operations have every incentive to manufacture or curate positive reviews — they cannot compete on product quality or creator relationships, so the facade of trustworthiness is critical to their model. The consensus among professional magicians and the wider magic community is unambiguous: this site should be avoided entirely.
No — these are two entirely different sites. The .io domain (erdnasemagicstore.io) is the piracy site this page is warning you about. The .com domain (erdnasemagicstore.com — the page you are reading right now) is a consumer warning site operated by members of the magic community to ensure people searching for the pirate site find accurate information about what it actually is.
Several things. You receive stolen content, which carries copyright liability in many jurisdictions even if you acquired it unknowingly. You have no consumer protection and no meaningful recourse if something goes wrong. Your payment details are shared with an unaccountable anonymous operator. And the creator of the work receives nothing, making it less likely they will continue creating. There is no genuine upside to buying from a piracy site.
Contact your card provider or PayPal immediately to dispute the charge. Purchases made under false pretences are typically eligible for a chargeback. Delete any files you downloaded. Then, if you still want the content, purchase it legitimately from the creator or an authorised retailer. We have a full guide on our Already Bought page.
The most effective avenues are: reporting to payment processors (Visa, Mastercard, and PayPal all have merchant reporting mechanisms); filing a DMCA notice with Google to de-index the site from search results; and submitting a report to the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center at ic3.gov. See our full reporting guide for detailed instructions and direct links.
Yes — we know who they are, not just who they might be. We know who operates Erdnase Magic Store and its mirror network, and identifying material is being supplied to payment processors, hosts, and law-enforcement channels as part of good-faith reporting. We may publish factual attribution and supporting evidence where that would clearly serve the public interest and is consistent with applicable law — focused on the operation itself, not unrelated private details. Voluntarily shutting down the piracy network is still the simplest outcome for everyone involved.
Document the listing immediately with screenshots and archive the URL via the Wayback Machine. Then file a DMCA takedown notice with the hosting provider and with Google. Report to payment processors to cut off their ability to process sales of your work. We have a detailed guide for creators on our For Creators page.
Yes. The site operates a network of backup domains and actively instructs users to bookmark an external "news" domain that lists its current active URLs. This is a deliberate evasion strategy — when one domain is taken down, they redirect to another. All domains associated with this network are part of the same operation and should be treated the same way.