Urban Art Association

I finally understood who Banksy is. I didn't know I'd known Banksy for years. We have exchanged dozens and dozens of emails throughout this time. I'm ready to tell the whole world if they give me an original canvas of the Balloon Girl, one of the Flower Thrower, one of the Child Who Trashes Superheroes, one of the Glitter Monkey and all the silkscreens on paper known to date.
Obviously all the works must have the Disinfestation certificate, where it must be written: Original Single Work - Certificate to Mr.
If there is any journalist interested I accept DM for confirmation. Thank you

I prefer the certificate to be dirty, with freshly squeezed strawberry and kiwi juice. :-))))))

Hi Loui, have a good day. ;-)

Does anyone know if this case is progressing ?

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/mar/09/legal-row-banksy-reveal-real-name-art-images-authenticity

Still no response from Pest Control. I've sent a couple more polite emails to them since my post above.

Does anyone have any suggestions? Presumably they have a legal obligation here since I paid them 2x £24 and they've not delivered the service I've paid for.

Really shitty. It properly puts me off buying any more Banksy work. Unless they come good on this. Nearly 4 years now. I'm close to giving up

PS: I've already tried sending from another address (gmail) just incase for some reason my messages have been going to spam. But still no response.

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll give that a try!

I thougt the site of Pestcontrol was pestcontroloffice.com. Just saw there is also pestcontroloffice.org
Is it one and the same or is the latter not legit 🤔

Have been checking the who is and don’t think pestcontrol office.org is legit.

They arent the same. The .org is from 2021 and registered in Norway while the .com is registered in Hertfordshire. 

I don't think Pest control office understand what they're up against. They will never have a complete system. It won't eventually just all line up.
If any of the staff understood the market they would know achieving complete provenance is going to be impossible for the majority of works. Many works were flipped regularly, sometimes multiple times in a year. Some works could have been resold 10-20 times over the years as prices increased. I've seen works resold multiple times in 1 year.
 Contact details will have changed for many in the contact chain, some will have died, some won't go out of their way to help the new PC for various reasons.
 A relatively small percentage had works changed into their names when purchasing secondary over the years. Largely there was no point as the chances were that most would be resold in the not too distant future.
 So what happens next. Will people be waiting 6/7 years? Indefinitely? Seems likely if they can't authenticate outside of provenance chain.
 The majority still have old coas. I would be very reluctant sending an old coa in for a new one, the old ones perfectly fine. At least you have one and you'll be able to try and sell your Banksy if needed.
 Many didn't want PC knowing if they were selling and stipulated that to the buyer.
 PC and the coa should bring confidence. The coa concept is clever, like the old deeds to a house, that's why the coa was championed but it only works if PC works. Otherwise it's just a piece of paper that can be copied like most other coas, relatively useless.
 
Ultimately they're pissing in the wind.
  

POW was providing the prints and they stopped printing a while ago. I can recommend WestCountryPrince, since Lroy loves the works and he is one who knows what is the good stuff. Pestcontrol is on here so they will know by now. 

This is too much. There are COA’s from GDP that still haven’t been sent. 
Almost five years from purchase…

Yes, I´m still waiting. So far the bill hasn't even come.

I doubt very much this issue would reach Mark Howard Stephens. PP's aren't produced for sale but for testing and archive. If PP's have received COA's in the past this would have been at the discretion of the artist. I guess they then initiated a blanket "no" for PP's. Legally sound I'm sure.

PPs have been issued for works created since.The policy is new. The artist was told in person he was looking to get coas, the artist said that's fine just contact PC. 
Legally sound? How Banksy
The printer never applied for coas before, it's a brand new policy blanketing PPs. That's absolutely fine but the policy can only be enforced from the point of creation, it can't be backdated and used as an excuse, 20 years later.
2006 Barely Legal PP prints get coas, 2009 No Ball Games PPs get coas etc etc. More recent prints get coas but GWB, Barcode etc don't? 
You understand that the coa is what is deemed to make a Banksy print valuable?
So a rare print, the first of their kinds, of some of the most iconic images, with rock solid provenance should be sold for a fraction of their value after 20 years and that seems fair?
It's a bit of a slap in face to say the least. 
Decent guy too, doesn't deserve that at all.

I understand PPs and I agree with a lot of what you've said. I have explained it would be best holding until PC collapse/cease operating as normal practice re provenance will kick in and they'll then achieve their real value. 
 It shouldn't be the case though ie they'll achieve their true value someday in the future but not now, because the new PC says so. If he'd applied for coas pre new staff, he'd have got coas no problem.
 I guess the same advise goes to those who have legitimate prints but PC refused coas due to incomplete provenance trail or other reasons. Sit tight for unknown timescale and wait for PC to close.
 It's not ideal.