No question IMO, a fantastic solution.

Think that's possibly the best part!!

A level playing field for all, specially us tecnological retards who can't work out the sneakiest ways of beating the system......

flippers are being eradicated by the higher pricing thats coming about. unfortunately that action is actually costing the genuine buyer as now they are going to pay near flip prices in future. good and bad i say but as a genuine buyer who can make it his/her business to be around when a sale drops im gonna pay more. its the state of affairs at the moment, unfortunate for some, fortunate for others. at this rate the next bansky could drop for 1/2k.....lottery or not !

Hey heavy consumer, have you tried Google Checkout? It syncs directly with your bank account so there's no credit or account freeze issues.

Agreed, paypal are a bunch of thieving C$$nts!!

Might have to give google checkout a bash as i hate putting anything paypals way.

and yeah, heavy, their August release (their last completely 'live' one) was straight bonkers. the quality was all there, and the amount of different prints available was shocking (twice as good and about twice as many as this one, and to answer your question, yes, this is their style of release). literally, one after the next, better and better. they just kept popping up and slowly disappearing. it was suck a f*cking rush. the 'prints' page looked completely different every 5 minutes or so. they also started with a lot of B&W or single color, cheaper prints, and progressed to the more heavily worked prints. you also sometimes had the 'option' of buying the B&W/single color version, or the full color version, but you didn't necessarily know that at the time. i ended up getting refunded on all 3 prints i bought, but it was still a positive experience in my mind. really quite phenomenal. it surely turned me from fan to a junkie - i had seen nothing like it, ever. than their next release was lottery style. and at the time of their previous release, they were not THAT popular.

Faile is no doubt evolving quite rapidly. As i understand, their heavy hitting will come in their London show. This release was awesome, but overall lacked gusto in my opinion. They must be so busy. However, their style - including how they release their work - has gotten them where they are today, and they'd be fools to abandon it. It is part of what makes Faile Faile. Than again, you could have said that about Aiko a few years ago so who knows. And come on, didn't Brad leave Jennifer for Angelina? So six apples must equal one orange, right?

How would Warhol release prints in this day and age?

So we all think.

I wonder just how many accounts some flippers have though.

Maybe its not as Fair as they would have us believe...

the only thing i hear bad about using this paypal system is that you must have a "confirmed" address , and it only is possible to people in the UK and USA to have a confirmed address thru paypal apparently ......

any europeans bought yesterday ? hello luxembourg ?

THere are pros and cons to both methods of release in my view

Both are open to flippers and as they make a living from doing it then they will always find a way to either have multiple accounts or to have time or software to F5

I do like having the time to consider my purchase rather than having to grab whatever the print is if I like the artist

But.. I do like the rush of the whole sell out in 5 seconds

Not sure how POW will handle the next Banksy release though as if they let us all know that it's on the way it'll be another NW or worse???

POW should definatly use FAIRQ. I'd be up for that. FairQ needs to tie a credit card down to the lottery and have a cross check on their Database for multiple account at the same address. At least some people may have a chance of getting a MR. B or other artist.