Why is shipping to the US $60 for the Penny piece?

Bank holiday weekend bump on my eBay sales. Link to all listings below. Some of these end tomorrow evening (UK time) and are still very low bids, so you could get a bargain. Still open to offers on those that haven’t already had bids placed on, either via eBay make an offer option or via PM on here. Good luck if you bid! 🤞

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Dear met, after viewing your other posts I’m assuming with your forensic knowledge of it’s seems pretty much everything and anything, you must actually work for the metropolitan police, hence the name? I can tell from your eloquence, grammar, punctuation and spelling that you must have had a very good education, but that doesn’t make you an expert of everything and anything. I didn’t respond to your previous message about the mr brainwash madonna paster as you kind of lost the argument when you said you weren’t a fan of mr b’s work and didn’t actually have any of his work, BUT then carried on with a seemingly vast in-depth knowledge of his paint-strokes, signature, the blotches on Madonna’s neck and numerous other things, which clearly if you say are not correct as a non-expert must mean this is therefore a fake. I’ve been on this earth for long enough to sometimes not bother responding to people, as arguing with some people is like arguing with a seagull - you are never going to win the argument and they will always shit on your head. For your information I did contact mr b however never received a response as I’ve told numerous people who contacted me wanting to know the history via eBay messages, as I did ask for this on my previous post. I’m sure if I was an artist and was contacted by someone selling their work on eBay when they would get no ARR for this, I certainly wouldn’t be very helpful in confirming its authenticity. Maybe selling something at an auction house when they would get 4% for the help may warrant a response? At the end of the day, buyers on eBay have full eBay protection, so if by any slim chance this isn’t genuine then eBay protect the buyer. Unfortunately you seem to have a bee in your bonnet about this when you have already said you aren’t an expert. I’m not an expert on the lives of partula snails in Polynesia so wouldn’t offer my opinion and argue with someone who was, by telling them the snail was actually a slug. I have many pieces by mr brainwash and so I would consider myself more of an expert than you. His signatures vary hugely for example. You commented before about some of the blurry photos on the eBay listing, which you assumed I was therefore hiding something, so I added more photos as you requested. If anyone has any questions for me on this or any of my other listings, please contact me via eBay for those that have bids, or on here or eBay for those without bids as I previously asked. There is then a history of conversations for your eBay protection. Good luck again for anyone who decides to take a risk on these when someone randomly decides and accuses someone of selling something that is fake without actually really having any knowledge of the artist or indeed the history of said piece. Enjoy the rest of your weekend 😁

It’s good to have you here, Met.

What happened with the Nick Smith print? Sold for £300 on Wednesday (auction). Now listed for £549.99 (BIN)

The same person with two eBay accounts decided to bid on a few things and then make excuses. Haven’t a clue how eBay allow multiple accounts. They’ve now been blocked and reported to eBay. I wonder who it could be……? Now listed as buy it nows with offer options to stop this from happening again.

Happens a lot I’m afraid. I won a print a while back and the seller cancelled instantly saying they forgot to put a reserve. The cheeky fooker then put it on here for sale for twice the price. Long time forum member and all that. 

No it wasn’t you that I was referring too.

1.  Consider the details that are still publicly visible on eBay for completed auctions* by the eBay account, doolally12345.

This would include the various Bidding history pages which (especially when viewed in aggregate) show repeated, unusual bidding activity for many of the auctions, most obviously for those that had low starting prices.


2.  Consider the multiple relistings by the seller, sometimes:

(i)  immediate, i.e. before even the expiry of the four days that eBay gives winning bidders to pay for their items; and

(ii)  with Buy‑it‑now prices way out of sync with the winning-bid amounts in the seller's previous auctions for the very same items.


3.  Consider the frankly implausible excuses offered by the seller, and also only after concerns were raised here about their auction anomalies.




On the balance of probabilities, shill bidding seems the most likely explanation.




Using a cool head and detached objectivity, it is up to each forum member to make their own decision about Art Attackkk, between:

(a)  continuing to give him the benefit of the doubt; or

(b)  based on the compelling available evidence, concluding he is dishonest at heart, trying to take buyers for fools — and at times succeeding in doing so.