I don't mind the price hike as much as some others but this is messed up.

Quick! Grab one from eBay for $15K before they're gone forever!!!

SOLD OUT!

sales still low

Check PM

I'm guessing he didn't realize the prices quoted were in gbp, not usd.

I think if it went up for sale on kawsone at 6500 it would have sold out almost instantly. When PTP is going for 6000 consistently he knows the market demands. I still don't understand why it's a shocking price, this is a very large print, larger than any print I have in my entire collection. It wouldn't surprise me at all if over the next year you see this one settled between 9-10k with PTP being much smaller and much less desirable selling for what it does, and only 1 I can see for sale at that for 6.5K. Also the fact that Pace had to call every email slowed down the sales process.

The size between the two is quite substantial. Yes 32x32 is still a large print, but if you sized up both 32x37.5 is actually quite a big larger overall. Last presenting the past sold for 6k as previously stated in the thread by another member who sold it, 3800 gbp. Someone sold one on here for 5K and it was gone within a day within the past few months. PTP hasn't even been out for even a year, it's only been 10 months since it was released and already I only see 1 for sale, so really its a sellers market.

For reference here is a scaled drawing of PTP vs YKIK.

He should take it to Paddle haha. Anyways not arguing, just going on what I've seen over the past few months. To me that's not a marginal difference, but I guess it is to others. Everyone is entitled to there thoughts . I'm belated about the size of this one if you haven't noticed! Just stoked on this release in general.

Holy hyping batman. You must have a lot of money invested in these prints inkart, you sure like to talk the price up!

I agree with you in terms of quality, my kaws print is my favorite I own. The inks are electric!

how much u think next year's print is gonna be? 6-7k for the first 10? lol

Yeah If anyone needs I have a spare for sale. Pm me

This comment was a good read. I sympathise and, from a psychological perspective, also consider the stance you've taken to be interesting.

You may agree that, ideally, the choice regarding whether or not to purchase the KAWS print should be based primarily on your assessment of its value (the term being used here in its broadest sense) and its desirability to you as a collector. The danger is that this assessment and your whole decision-making process are possibly being corrupted by two additional factors:

(i) an understandable resentment and annoyance at the immediate price increase – in effect, a pricing discrimination exercised by Pace Prints between different collectors on the basis of just fractions of seconds in their email response times; and

(ii) a comparison you're making between two different prices: US $5,000 of course being a far more attractive price to pay than $6,500.

The influence of these other two factors could lead you to make a choice based largely on emotion, or on emotion-skewed principle. Objectively, and with the benefit of distance, this may not be in your best interest.

A different approach is first to completely forget about (to the extent that's possible) the price increase and initial price of $5,000.

Now ask yourself the same question you'll ask yourself in the future: "Is this KAWS print worth $6,500 to me?" If you can still answer "No it isn't" without hesitation, then – at least on the basis of what you currently know – you definitely made the decision that is right for you.

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All of this brings to mind a TED Talk by Dan Gilbert, Why we make bad decisions. In case you lack the time to view the whole talk, the most germane part to this discussion is from 8:20–14:17 (and perhaps even more specifically, from 10:31–11:17):