Stealing Banksy, by trax51 on Feb 1, 2014 8:28:11 GMT 1,

Jan 31, 2014 14:48:10 GMT 1 johnnyh said:

Jan 31, 2014 14:09:08 GMT 1 balibob said:

As much as I would like to see them, not living in London, and its good that all the money going to charity. It does grate on the nerves that I would have to pay to see what was street art in the first place. Basically, all of the above.

Bali that's not what it says. From the entrance fee says some given to charity and from the sale it says profit. So it's easy to promote the charitable bit but actually donate very little.
think the actual donation will be very small. Note also more than one charity which hides the total amount donated.

all just a con really.

Clearly. Not much (if anything at all) will go to Charitiy. If this was the case, the Charity in question would have their Logo displayed big on the website.

But I assume that if they sell a piece 1mio, they will pretend it costed 990'000.- to salvage and restore, therefore they a giving 10k of profit to charity (sorry, 5k because they have admin cost too)

I am not in london, but Please guys, make whatever you can to make sure this show end as an humiliating failure for them !

Jan 31, 2014 14:48:10 GMT 1 johnnyh said:

Jan 31, 2014 14:09:08 GMT 1 balibob said:

As much as I would like to see them, not living in London, and its good that all the money going to charity. It does grate on the nerves that I would have to pay to see what was street art in the first place. Basically, all of the above.

Bali that's not what it says. From the entrance fee says some given to charity and from the sale it says profit. So it's easy to promote the charitable bit but actually donate very little.
think the actual donation will be very small. Note also more than one charity which hides the total amount donated.

all just a con really.

Clearly. Not much (if anything at all) will go to Charitiy. If this was the case, the Charity in question would have their Logo displayed big on the website.

But I assume that if they sell a piece 1mio, they will pretend it costed 990'000.- to salvage and restore, therefore they a giving 10k of profit to charity (sorry, 5k because they have admin cost too)

I am not in london, but Please guys, make whatever you can to make sure this show end as an humiliating failure for them !