The fact Laz is selling Confessions for £2k indicates where Laz is regarding prices. Faile have a very bright future and these are still the early days. Faile are fast becoming THE major player in this market.

I won't be buying anything from Faile at these prices. In fact, I have not bought a single print this year (only 1 original drawing). The fact that the Tate print is available is very telling. You may be right about the Laz show but just for kicks I'm tagging this post in Google calendar to refer back to 1 year from today. I did this with a Micallef post last year (he had a highly anticipated show with Laz too) and it is amazing what a difference a year can make!

i have to agree. More and more work is popping up in forums, ebay and various galleries from the US to the UK. It's finally becoming a buyers market again. Options are good.

if anyone sees anything good let me know!!! I'm buying!!! ;D ;D ;D

Just to reinforce my original post...it looks like a lot of the lottery pieces on eBay aren't selling...there's a stencil piece that will sell for barely above cost ending in a couple of hours...

Your post really rubbed me the wrong way.... They are selling - I think what you meant to say was "the lottery pieces on eBay aren't selling for a ridiculous profit."

And to that I say - thank God. Faile's prices stabilized the market a bit by not encouraging crazy levels of flipping/speculation.

Some of them haven't sold and no surprise, as I had mentioned before the lottery that some similar pieces that had sold on ebay prior to the lottery sold for the same or less than what their counterparts in the lottery sold for.

What I wonder is that Faile has raised their prices every single time they've had a release, it got to the point this time where only about (in my opinion) half the pieces were worth buying. If they raise their prices again they'll not only 'stabilize' the market but really kill the enthusiasm for their work too. (in my opinion)

Hate to break it to you. Every artists price goes up from show to show especially if he/she sells out the previous show. It will always be this way. They NEVER reduce. Not saying that you dont have a chance to pick up a piece in the secondary markey for cost, close to it or sometime even less.

even the previous releases were not good for an immediate flip (someone correct me if i'm wrong, but that's what I observed). you can even check expressobeans.... a few months after release, that's a different story. i think Faile does a pretty god job at pricing their work at the current market price

That applies to all artists though. They start out with their initial style and thats what draws people in. The key is evolving/trying something new and having people dig it and want more. My 2cents. discuss

ZULU: I think it probably depends on the finish.

I put my hat in the ring for one of these in the recent release but wasn't sure what it would look like in the flesh.

I love the GA image (IMO Failes strongest image) but I'm not sure if this technique is experimental.

It feels like it's one of those that you would need to see in the flesh, before putting down so much cash.

And at $7k it's competing with BFG, which I think is a pretty big call to make.

i would totally disagree with u that there has been no artistic progression, but i am daft and u are the banksy expert eh

This discussion shows how little patience people have in this scene. Faile's work has evolved massively, but people look at the last 12 months as if it's a whole career. Faile constantly add new images to the mix and mix them up with old ones. Their repertoire just grows and grows. They've said we can expect a load of new work at the Laz show but no doubt they'll continue mixing that with the old stuff. It's what they're all about. To see that as a weakness completely misses the point of what they do.

..what little bird may be absolutely spot on but maybe the messages that Banksy has tried to put out to the masses has become a little bit obscured and blurred by all of the attraction of an easy buck!

The message has always been there, the fanbase (as another forum member has referred to it) has gone up exponentially but is this a product of what people think they can earn from his work and off of his back? If - say for example his prints were not limited in edition would the interest that he currently has be quite as big as it currently is?

On thing is for sure - if the prints he released were unlimited the hit rate on both this forum and POW would be drastically reduced and maybe a lot of people would actually start getting back out into the real world instead of all this 'F5'ing's**t (or whatever it is on a Mac)....