Urban Art Association

They had a small sign saying the prints would be "avail at picturesonwalls.com soonish"
They will be printed over there and wont have the deckled edge so the L.A. ones will be distinguishable (and numbered b/w 50 and 150).

I was still hoping we could have them at the usual £75 each to be honest... that'd make the Yanks happy ;

£75 would be dreamy but with those prints already selling on eBay for between £400-£700 im thinking POW are gonna be mad not to sell for higher (again POW please dont read this)

numusic, do you have any of the new prints? Whats the quality like?

Normally on Banksy forum ebay and wanted to know how you lot got your blinding little icons?

So when go you think POW will have them up for sale... next couple of weeks or just before xmas???

would you of bought it if it wasn't Banksy?

From POW:


That's when I reckon.

However, it's "the end of the month" now.

I suppose they didn't specify which month, tho... *shrug*

I wanna know what happened to the Banksy interview: "Coming September 2006".


*Edit: Could some kind person who's on the POW mailing list please let me know if they hear anything? I thought I was on the mailing list but I've never received anything resembling a mail from them

The P.O.W. shop is not going to be a shop! It is going to be a room in the Willow Street building and it's going to be by appointment only ( just like a trip to thier offices)
The benefits of not having a shop front is that the extra cost isn't passed on to the buyer. They are also able to sell a huge amount in the three weeks before Christmas in Santas Ghetto and build up a big momentum of interest, whereas people allegedly get bored with a shop and forget about it!

What's the point of that? Where's the change? Surely a nice little shopfront with a window and an open door would encourage passing trade, and people who don't look at the www might make some interesting discoveries that they wouldn't otherwise.

Surely there will be enough for everyone….
400 x 6 = 2400 prints
At the last count there were around 1400 people registered on the forum.
The only way that the whole thing can go wrong is if some bright spark orders a huge amount specifically to make money on eBay!

Granted this is a simplistic view of the situation as a number will be re-directed to other galleries/on-line retailers (ES, AR and Laz) but there should be enough to go around.

To quote Dougal……….“I’m confused Ted…..”

Aled, if you were offered all 6 prints for sale, would you buy them or say, No its Ok , I'll just have the one please, best leave some for everyong else.
There may be 2400 individual prints, but its still only 400 of each one, its not just the people here and on ebay that will be buying them either, there is a great big world away from these few educational forums. The hype and the expectancy that has been gathering about the Ghetto and the duration ( 3 - 4 weeks) means that they only have to sell 20 full sets or 120 individual Banksy prints per day to be sold out by the end of the ghetto, I am sure you will agree that either number is not an outlandishly optomistic figure. Its just a plumb shame that half if not more will be going to the scalpers to double up on by the start of January, whilst collectors ( ones that dont come from close to London or new york) get the prickly end of the pineapple right up the......... once again.

Thanks for the comment Foundation. Having thought about what you said I agree however there is one sure fire way for most of the genuine fans to get hold of at least one print.
The reason for the astronomical growth in the popularity of the work is the means to make a quick buck. Buy for £75 and sell in a matter of months for £600. This has attracted a vast number of potential buyers using the prints as a commodity.
There is a solution, but it won’t be popular which is:-

P.O.W. to sell the prints at the current market value i.e. £500ish for a non signed and £1000 for a signed. This will have the effect of making the quick buck scenario a lot less attractive thus allowing the true fans to at least get their hands on a minimum of one

(I do know how to make myself popular ;-))

POW's ethos has always been quality art at low prices, it has been asked before when things started hotting up after wall and piece, why dont POW raise their prices? As much as it must really p them off to see prints they sold on friday being advertised 2 weeks later for a 300% markup, its not what ther have been about in the past. A rise to the same level as the Micallefs is understandable ( £200 mark ) due to inflation and general interest, I feel one way to combat this is to initially offer buyers with a good track record, i.e been on the POW mailing list for a while, not been horsing out banksys for proffit left right and centre. Good point GM, as you indicated, unfortunataly its the profiteers who have the cash at the moment, due to the rising cost of a banksy habit for the rest of us, limit prints to one/person as POW already do and keep the price as low as possible, affording as greatest possibility for fans to get their mits on a few at least, at normal prices rather than scalper scum prices.