[dill]

Having been watching a seemingly endless supply of fake Banksy's... Grin Reapers Girl With Balloon. etc.

I thought it might save some people a lot of money and heartache if we had one single thread listing all the fakes on Ebay we spot, then we potentially (if we can find the identity of the buyer) can direct them to it. Hopefully before they get ripped off.

I have reported item 270284971962 to ebay. The dodgy grin reaper.

The trouble is these bastards do very short listings, so it is hard to do much about.
But ringing ebay is definitely also an option... don't know if it will work though

[Guest]

good post. can this be a sticky silky?

[wave]

Great idea dill

[fatherxmas]

Good shout RONHILL

[carnoustieboy]

I'm going to send the poor unfortunate that wins the Reaper here before they transfer their life savings into some scammers account. Great addition to the forum Dill.

[dill]

by way of a bump really

here's another scam

170270361083

pretending to be a banksy.

i have reported the item to ebay as willfully misleading. Maybe if a few others members do as well, we might have a chance of getting it pulled

[linkd95]

hey i dont know if u guys remember but about 4 months ago someone put a fake banksy signature on this mahamad ali canvas and said it was an original posing that he bought it from a guy at a pub. YET the original sold for about £600 this is a blaitent scam as they would probably have put it in an auction and ONLY A DIM WIT WOULD SELL A BANKSY FOR £600.

[dill]

... and only a dimwit would buy it!... I do get hacked off with these scammers though. And if enough of us complained to Ebay about fraudulent listings, then maybe we could stop some of them.

[Richard]

My simple advice is if you are going to buy a Banksy and you want to know it's real - ask to do the deal at POW. If the seller will not do that then walk away.

[carnoustieboy]

Remember the recent GR on eBay? Well, the aparent 'winner' of this has the left the 'seller' postive feedback less than 2 days after the auction ended. Now, this person was only accepting a bank transfer to the value of the piece even if they were collecting it in person. Call me a sado but I don't think you can complete a bank transfer within 2 days? Not only that but take delivery of the piece, and then get back to your computer to leave feedback! So, in summary I think both user ID's christina234 and dannycwillson are ones to watch in future. The first one in particular because now the paper trail shows that christina234 is now the owner of this piece and this will add weight to her defence when she comes to resell it.

[craigf]

It is possible to do a same day transfer if you have the same bank or pay a premium for doing so. The auction is still as dodgy as hell though!

[chrisps303]

I think you can clear the money the same day if you pay the bank a fee.
Saying that though, I still think its a dodgy auction.

[rosstierney]

you guys are cavemen! haven't you heard of the new faster payment system? it was put in place because banks were unnecesarilly keeping hold of our money for three working days before a transfer was complete, earning intrest on it!

[rosstierney]

i'm not condoning the buyer/seller mind, the chances are they're related!