Banksy's Santas Ghetto Bethlehem

[leeoman]

really great offer PUD, not sure you've noticed but you've instantly made the guy flipping the other one for £900 look quite expensive..... shame that

[jonpud]

Sold to someone who really wants it. Didn't really want to let go, sat 6hours F5ing for this, but it aint fair for it to sit in a tube when someone who missed out wants it on their wall!

Sorry Hitme............one less buyer!! ;D

[leeoman]

Dec 17, 2008 12:38:36 GMT 1 @jonpud said:

Sold to someone who really wants it. Didn't really want to let go, sat 6hours F5ing for this, but it aint fair for it to sit in a tube when someone who missed out wants it on their wall!

Sorry Hitme............one less buyer!! ;D

Perhaps now he will do the right thing and follow in your footsteps PUD

[doublehelix]

Hit-Me, that's a very apt name for a flipper.

[mcnuts]

Good on ya I guess. I dont get why you wouldnt just cancel your order as it hadnt shipped yet then your name isn't associated with a print for when it gets moved on.

Dec 17, 2008 12:38:36 GMT 1 @jonpud said:

Sold to someone who really wants it. Didn't really want to let go, sat 6hours F5ing for this, but it aint fair for it to sit in a tube when someone who missed out wants it on their wall!

Sorry Hitme............one less buyer!! ;D

[hippocroccopig]

Yeah doesn't that get you on their shit list? (from another thread)

Nice gesture though.

Dec 17, 2008 13:14:07 GMT 1 @mcnuts said:

Good on ya I guess. I dont get why you wouldnt just cancel your order as it hadnt shipped yet then your name isn't associated with a print for when it gets moved on.

Dec 17, 2008 12:38:36 GMT 1 @jonpud said:

Sold to someone who really wants it. Didn't really want to let go, sat 6hours F5ing for this, but it aint fair for it to sit in a tube when someone who missed out wants it on their wall!

Sorry Hitme............one less buyer!! ;D

[leeoman]

Why does it matter? Pud not been able to buy a banksy from POW for a couple of years or somthing like that.
so even if there is a Sh*t list if you cant get one to start with does it matter?

Dec 17, 2008 13:24:17 GMT 1 @hippocroccopig said:

Yeah doesn't that get you on their s**t list? (from another thread)

Nice gesture though.

Dec 17, 2008 13:14:07 GMT 1 @mcnuts said:

Good on ya I guess. I dont get why you wouldnt just cancel your order as it hadnt shipped yet then your name isn't associated with a print for when it gets moved on.

[hippocroccopig]

It doesn't matter to me.

I just wouldn't want PUD to finally bag a Banksy and then be refunded if he had been put on the shit list.

Dec 17, 2008 13:31:55 GMT 1 leeoman said:

Why does it matter? Pud not been able to buy a banksy from POW for a couple of years or somthing like that.
so even if there is a Sh*t list if you cant get one to start with does it matter?

Dec 17, 2008 13:24:17 GMT 1 @hippocroccopig said:

Yeah doesn't that get you on their s**t list? (from another thread)

Nice gesture though.

[buffin]

Really nice gesture. Well done that man.

[alsbabar]

anyone want to offer me a VLH for cost?

nice one pud

[leeoman]

Dec 17, 2008 13:35:47 GMT 1 @hippocroccopig said:

It doesn't matter to me.

I just wouldn't want PUD to finally bag a Banksy and then be refunded if he had been put on the s**t list.

I would like to think POW know PUD, and as we all know he is far from a flipper, so i cant see them doing that. all he has done is given Someone the chance who missed out, which is a fantastic gesture. even if he had canceled it and it went back up, the chances of it being bought by someone who really wanted it are very small. there more chance it would be bought by a flipper and sold on for a profit. IMO

[jonpud]

Dec 17, 2008 13:35:47 GMT 1 @hippocroccopig said:

It doesn't matter to me.

I just wouldn't want PUD to finally bag a Banksy and then be refunded if he had been put on the s**t list.

Dec 17, 2008 13:31:55 GMT 1 leeoman said:

Why does it matter? Pud not been able to buy a banksy from POW for a couple of years or somthing like that.
so even if there is a Sh*t list if you cant get one to start with does it matter?

I would be really upset if POW put me on a s**t List after years of buying from them! They watch this forum, they know who I am, and they can see I am not flipping! No profits being made here! Just a genuine Micallef fan ending up with a print at cost!

They should applaud what I have chosen to do, not punish me! That is if they genuinely want the art to go to where it should be, and where the Artist would like to see it hanging!

Not done it to be a hero, I did it to spite the other member on here trying to make an instant profit on a print he aint even got yet. His blatent flip pissed me off and so I tried to show him up.............for what it's worth anyway!!

[jonpud]

Dec 17, 2008 13:54:23 GMT 1 leeoman said:

Dec 17, 2008 13:35:47 GMT 1 @hippocroccopig said:

It doesn't matter to me.

I just wouldn't want PUD to finally bag a Banksy and then be refunded if he had been put on the s**t list.

;D ;D ;D That is just my sort of luck, seriously would piss myself if that happened!!

[lostplotter]

Genuinely nice gesture, wish there were more people on here like you Jon

[dumpsuk]

Hey Pud, please let me know if your sale of this print falls through, would love to have one, won sweet f a in the lottery. Only other options are hitme at £900 or take a chance on the one up on ebay. Many thanks, Dumps.

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Dec 17, 2008 15:20:00 GMT 1 dumpsuk said:

Hey Pud, please let me know if your sale of this print falls through, would love to have one, won sweet f a in the lottery. Only other options are hitme at £900 or take a chance on the one up on ebay. Many thanks, Dumps.

Hit me at £500 and i have a 90% chance of keeping the print , but Hit me at £900 and i have 100% chance of flipping

[jonpud]

A PLEA................

I have let my print go to someone I genuinely think will frame and hang it. I was pleased to have helped someone who missed out but I now feel shit as moments after I offered it, someone else pm'd me who is equally if not moreso deserving.

If anyone gets the print and decides it's just too big to hang, please don't store it away, offer it to rillo who would love to add it to his collection, let it be enjoyed on a wall instead of hidden. You would be safe in the knowledge that it had gone to a good home and wouldn't be flipped!

Hope rillo isn't offended by my post and me using his photo without permission!

[rillo]

Not offended at all PUD. Offering the print at cost was a great gesture of yours and I am pleased to hear that it is going to someone who will frame and hang it. If anyone else wants to part with their Bethlehem down the line do let me know as I lucked out in the POW lottery for this print and would love it on my wall.

[redmen]

quality wall there rillo...

PUD, great gesture, we need more of this - and you had a great eelus offer too

[arcam]

That room must be massive cause they're big prints. ;D

As for pud, I'm sure karma will bestow a Banksy on you one of these days.

[theb]

Pud

What a great gesture, I wish I saw it sooner.

For us in the States the only way we get many of these pieces in the aftermarket, so its always nice to see someone sell theirs for cost.

[grt]

I would just like to give a big up to you pud, I have not been on here for a long time and I am guilty of lurking for the most part. I don't know u from Adam but you have helped restore my faith in human nature. I myself am seriously thinking of selling a piece to buy one of these in the new year- will be my first micallef- anyways top man!

By the way that pic of the wall with all those pics is making me seriously jealous but on the other hand I can see why a Bethlehem would suit that room!

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[burnz]

gutted wanted this print anyone else offering a Beth print

[Sundowner]

Me too. That's a very honourable thing to do (again) PUD. Hope your luck changes with the next Banksy release.

[idris]

theyre not far off cost on evil-bay

[sahoria]

what i posted on another thread but really do love the bethlehem print... best i have seen this year in my opinion....

Re: Pictures of Micallef's Bethlehem
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think this is the best art piece by micallef i have seen and in person looks stunning....

...meaning to me i guess would be loss of youth to the kids over there... before the wall they was free to walk around and go into neighbourhoods which are now blocked off.... for someone who is young that is hard thing to understand... tree they used to play at is now blocked by this lump of concrete....

when he went there he was effected by what he saw and like any other great artist he painted from the heart and how he felt seeing what he did. personally when i look at the bethlehem print it stirs emotions...

he could have done more angels with guns and would have looked great but i think this is a more powerful art piece to people in the uk / states and especially people over there who have to live with this day in and day out... i think alot of people over there on both sides of the wall will look at this print and think it captures alot of emotions and for me one of the reasons got into art... art pieces that makes me think and when i look at this one it makes me stop and think how lucky we are over here....

know sounds silly but simple thing of getting water from the tap take for granted... over there sometimes they would have to walk and get fresh water and heard stories on the news that now some people dotted along the wall have to travel alot more further to get for there families....

farmers who had land have now only got whatever is on there side of the wall... no one uses on the other side but there is no one to maintain it so the crops die and the land dries out... it is up to interpretation how someone views micallef bethlehem i think... it might not be a happy image but i believe it is an important one....s

[banksman]

AS IT SAYS .................

PM ME IF YOU HAVE 1..........

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[banksman]

Cash waiting, will pay recent Ebay prices

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[skitch]

sent you message.

[snakes]

You should be able to pick one up now for around £450 should you not what with this Global Recession?