[fumanku]

Hi all:

A relative newbie here (as you can tell by the number of posts.)

I won a purported "original" banksy piece on ebay, for the relatively cheap amount of GBP 3800. This of course, is pending the seller revealing to me the provenance of the piece. Since the auction ended, I have emailed him at least 5 times about the authenticitiy. Ignoring my emails, he has been demanding payment, and does not seem to aknowledge that I have even mailed him at all.

Anyways, does anyone here know this chap? I am NOT about to send $7600 to someone who can't even reply to my mail....


Thanks to all who reply.

cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260234655463

[funster]

Unfortunately it doesn't look good, and I certainly wouldn't send the money.

[Deleted]

whats the item number, but as a word of warning bansky originals go for thousands, yours was sold for 3800! just the math comes across as dodgy, i would say 150% fake!

[nadir]

Not cheap for a fake. Spend the money on a signed print.

[matbat]

i think that door is fake. I have never seen a rat with a Banksy tag that large. They are usually proportional. It looks wrong.

[Deleted]

defo, you could get a nice print for £3800, or even better buy some original work of someone else out there as there is some really good stuff. Copyright for one.

[Prescription Art]

The tag looks completely out of proportion to the rat, and in fact doesn't look at all right.

I'd say if you're new to this, you should be very wary spending £4k on anything... particularly something so easy to fake.

[GD303uk]

"Field experts authenticate the piece"(lol)
please do not send them a penny
if they had good prov they would have listed it better than that,
and it would have gone for much much more,
get a signed print
or an original from another artist,

[sahoria]

i then went on to sell it on ebay but the buyer failed to pay for the item
upon doing this i set out to try and get this piece authenticated and was able to do so. After several weeks of research, field experts were able to authenticate the piece and we are now able to confidently say that this is indeed an Original piece of Banksy street art

FULL PROVENANCE WILL BE DIVULGED TO THE AUCTION WINNER

contact details will be given to anyone upon request for the company to ask about the authenticity of the given DOA or any other questions you may have .


from the above he states he/she has proof it is by banksy which cant be proven because banksy doesnt aunthenticate street pieces as he written on the original listing... if he doesnt send across the company who did this then wouldnt pay...in all honesty i wouldnt pay because the company could be one he has set up himself...

i suggest you contact ebay and say to them no emails recieved from buyer about the supposed proof of aunthenticity and pretty sure they will back you over him/her...

there are amazing artists you could go for if your willing to spend...agree copyright stuff is amazing and if you search this forum will find great work by him as well as other artists such as neverwork / spqr / guy denning (some originals for under £2k and look amazing) / rourke vandal / dale grimshaw has came out with some really impressive stuff aswell...

if your looking for specific artist such as only banksy you could get some fantastic prints for the price you paid for this....good luck and hope it gets resolved soon but really i wouldnt pay for this as like others have said you just cant tell if it is real or not and the piece was not supposed to be taken off the streets for someone to sell if it is true... s

[rosstierney]

cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260216682553

[dotdot]

If the seller fails to respond to you via ebay - extract their details from ebay - this will include their phone number.

Call them up and have a chat.

At this point let's assume for clarity it's ok.

If it is she/he will be keen to help.

If it is not and you don't get any joy - report your concerns
to ebay.

You really ought to have sought more info / confidence
before sinking (your bid) on this one.

Let us know how you get on...

..

[rosstierney]

pages.ebay.co.uk/help/tp/know-seller-contact.html

[snakes]

Its rubbish - save your money and buy something nice. Also no way is that a door to a meter box. It is a door to an office stationary cupboard with some outside crime and a £3.99 Banksy stencil sprayed onto it.

Absolute toilet mate.

[snakes]

ps. if you like his item I am sure there will be no shortage of volunteers on this forum who could make you an exact copy for under £100!

[fumanku]

I called already yesterday, and the funny thing was that the guy that picked up the phone did not speak english. =)

Lol.....

[richy00]

im happy to make anyone a original banksy roadsign or anythign they wanted infact... £99 and they are yours.. you can even have banksys fingerprints on it or maybe a strand of hair that you can have DNA matched..

[snakes]

May 7, 2008 16:00:11 GMT 1 @richy00 said:

im happy to make anyone a original banksy roadsign or anythign they wanted infact... £99 and they are yours.. you can even have banksys fingerprints on it or maybe a strand of hair that you can have DNA matched..

That's very kind of you richy

[jonpud]

When will people learn?

Street Art is for the streets, as soon as people buy it from places like Ebay, it encourages fake work to be sold, if you don't entertain it then it will eventually fade away!

This piece is about as genuine as Heather Mills wedding vows!

[mammal2]

Looks like 3000 percent bull shit to me!

[atomone]

100% fake! the B and the A in the tag aren't stretched wide enough! letter spacing is pants too! details I know but god lives in them details ya know! Do not purchase whatever ya do!

[jonpud]

Should not have bid in the first place!

[snakes]

May 7, 2008 16:10:32 GMT 1 @jonpud said:

When will people learn?

Street Art is for the streets, as soon as people buy it from places like Ebay, it encourages fake work to be sold, if you don't entertain it then it will eventually fade away!

This piece is about as genuine as Heather Mills wedding vows!

Or about as genuine as Heather Mills left leg ;D

[pinguisking]

The fact that he's stated "relisted due to the fact that this piece reached nowhere near its estimated value" tells you what sort of person he is. He's just refused to sell it to someone else because he wants more for it. This itself is a breach of ebay rules.

I'd politely say you've had it deemed a fake by the members of the official Banksy forum and refuse to pay!

And report him for selling fakes!

[hypovalaemic]

Here's another:

120245153965

[cosmic]

REPORT ! REPORT ! REPORT ! THIS TOTAL CRAP !

[weeble]

full prov given by "field experts" lol. good one.

[snakes]

May 7, 2008 19:26:24 GMT 1 hypovalaemic said:

Here's another:

120245153965

I never knew that POW used tubes that good 'back in the day'!