Urban Art Association

Bought a Banksy from them, they are really pricey and their aftersales was laughable. I'm not a big fan of them but if you have a big wad of money lying around and don't care too much for costumer service I guess they are fine.

Also inspect the piece yourself, they had a GWB hanging at the time that was in a really bad condition.

I contacted them re: buying a banksy print and selling them another art work. They were rude and unhelpful in their communication.

The prices are ridiculous.

My experience is that the galleries in Netherlands that have Banksy work for sale are just those galleries that are mostly interested to sell to the high end market. In most cases they have only expensive works of other artists as well. They do know you will not be a regular buyer but just interested for only one single piece of work.

Really nice people when I visited, just extremely pricey! I was told 16k euros for an unsigned rat.

I contacted them within the last month, and was extremely disappointed with Lionel's lack of professionalism.

I asked for a price quote for a signed Banksy print (Morons), received a number below what I was anticipating, and responded with a number in an effort to move forward with the purchase.

The immediate reply back to me was that the print had been sold. Yes, somehow in the short few moments of going back and forth on price, the print had sold to someone else.

I replied in disbelief that the print sold in the midst of our negotiation/pending sale. The response back to me was that we weren't negotiating the price yet, and that I should be aware of how fast the Banksy market moves.

Yeah...okay. Pretty easy to see what was happening at this point. For grins I asked if he could provide a quote for an unsigned copy of the same print, as well as one of the other signed copies.

The response? I was told those all sold, too. Amazing that 3-4 prints suddenly sold right from under my nose on a random weekend.

The best part was when one of his employees also responded with the "real" quote of the first print, which further proved my assumptions.

I would have had the utmost respect for Lionel if he initially responded with "Apologies, I made an error and provided the wrong quote, it should actually be X". Instead, he lied to me multiple times by saying we weren't negotiating yet, and that all of the prints I was interested has somehow sold all at the same time. He permanently lost me as a potential buyer, and have absolutely zero respect for him at this point as a result.

Also, I should note all of the prints I inquired about are still listed as available on his site.

I'm not normally one to share a personal story like that, but he really rubbed me the wrong way.

They got back to me quickly with prices, but as everyone has indicated, the prices were way over market price.

The price of Girl with Balloon Signed is € 115.000,- and Girl with Balloon Unsigned is € 37.500

Yeah, obviously this is not anywhere close to the market price.  But it proves their overpricing. Here's one coming up at Bonham's for £25,000 - 35,000.  www.bonhams.com/auctions/22804/lot/128/

Like newartonline perhaps ?

do you mean the last post from barsakauk who said that other galleries on here were 'no good' but others have said that he himself is, in fact, newartonline ... ie a gallery

Member alert !!!!!!' Larry & barsukauk ... Pm me and I will resolve the issue 100% I come out on top x

Quick before a mod locks it !
New art 60% ? You know the score Son

See he's on 70%

... knit one, pearl one? ...

Thats cos you nicked those life-size ones from the front of Hamleys....again

Looks like I missed some abuse last night - luckily