[ratsashocker]

prices really are going crazy now...
you could pick these up for 500 only a few weeks ago!

cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=005&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&viewitem=&item=150136347509&rd=1&rd=1

[jonpud]

Good price! You won't get an unsigned of any kind for under a grand within the next month or so!!!!

[ratsashocker]

yeah its looking that way...
depressing isnt it?!!

[corblimeylimey]

Mad, one of the cheapest Banksy prints is Love Rat.

So I guess that's nearly £900 then! (including postage)

I guess the only one cheaper would be Flag.

[johnmac52]

I've always been of the understanding that Flags has been cheaper as it was cheaper to buy at the last ghetto for £100 and was of an edition of 1000, was flags available at the L.A show?

I hope I'm not asking stupid questions but due to there being a L.A and POW release of grannies etc then there were two releases of 500, and as such they're all editions of 1000?

And if this is the case then Flags is as rare/available as the rest of the L.A pieces just all released in the U.K, and is worth as much as the rest of the prints?

(Hope this made sense!)

[corblimeylimey]

I'm afraid you're wrong johnmac52, LA prints Grannies & Applause have a 500 edition unsigned (100 of which were sold at LA) and 150 signed, Morons B&W was a little different the 500 unsigned consists of 100 being sold at LA (which had a gold frame) and 400 sold from POW which didn't have a gold frame, plus 150 signed that did'nt have a gold frame plus 300 sepia signed versions.

Flag was an edition of 1000 all unsigned only sold from the ghetto in Dec 2006 for £100 each, with all proceeds to charity.

[johnmac52]

Ahhhh... Thanks for that! I've got the POW issue of grannies and when I see the L.A issue on ebay I presumed that there was a seperate issue of 500....It often puzzled me!

Thanks for clearing that up!

[ratsashocker]

I guess with the prices of all unsigned shooting up and out of reach we will see Flag going the same way sadly as I would think that most have found permanent homes now.
I know mine has! ;D
It cant be a good thing that anyone just discovering banksy now needs to be fairly minted (or lucky) before they will be able to own one. :(all I can say is when I was in my 1st year @ uni & finding banksys stuff I wouldnt have been able to drop 900 quid on a Love Rat!

[johnmac52]

It was in my first year of uni that I first started buying Banksy's and I couldn't afford them then! I remember thinking that I must be mad to be spending £75 on a poster....

No-one could have predicted how ridiculous it's got though...and why prices seem to have jumped another 25% in the last month or so for no reason at all? Any thoughts?

[slowmo]

Supply and demand. More and more prints are getting into the hands of people who want them on the walls. Signed have gone to another level in the last couple of months, so many people are now thinking better get an unsigned while I still can, hence the jump.

[slowmo]

ratsashocker said:

:(all I can say is when I was in my 1st year @ uni & finding banksys stuff I wouldnt have been able to drop 900 quid on a Love Rat!

Even when they were £40, I would much rather have spent my money on dope in the 1st year of uni than on a poster. I would have printed out the free one's from his website and stuck them up. ;D

[mcnuts]

Sing it with me......

I was gonna buy a banksy poster until i got high.

i was gonna get up and buy a radar rat until i got high

and now i can't afford one and I know why.

because i got high,

because i got high,

because i got high

[Viva Hate]

The prices will just keep going up until the next banksy release, thats when they will stabalise for 5 hours.

[jonpud]

Plus there is the small point that Banksy has just been voted Britains best Artist and the 5th best artist of all time!!! Geezer aint dead yet either!!

[Viva Hate]

jonpud said:

Plus there is the small point that Banksy has just been voted Britains best Artist and the 5th best artist of all time!!! Geezer aint dead yet either!!

that was by sun or news of the world voters though wasnt it

[jonpud]

Perhaps it's the simplicity of the images they like, only readers of the Times would get the deeper meaning!!!!!!

[jonpud]

And before anyone asks me what the deeper meaning of Bombhugger is, I read the Sun!!