I agree Carl. I am also looking for a yellow and pink CYW. However, they are rare as hens teeth. I have a QJ Grey to swap, but offers from other colours only so far. Last one on ebay went for 3700. Would sell at this price and find one in private sale, but the chances are slim.

Good luck heres all fingers and toes crossed for you ;D

You can't blame people for wanting to make money, they have no interest in the art but have heard that if they all queue up here overnight they can buy a new family car or go on a nice trip to Florida. If I heard that and was not interested in Banksy or art I would be there in a shot and maybe even dig up the grandma as well.

You just need to be one step ahead of them.

You're not looking very hard, four yellow and three pink have 'sold' on the bay.

There is also a queue jumping grey listed for £3500 or best offer on the bay, that's about £350 in fees so if I was a buying one privately I'd be looking to knock that fee off as well.

Will the other 25% be Hungarians come January??

my reckoning is that a lot of galleries will look to buy up what they can at relatively cheap prices (£2.5-3K) and just sit on them to give the impression that they're rare and mostly in the hands of collectors, by doing so when they drip feed their supply they hope there will be a scramble and prices will jump massively.

i think they are only in the market for the 25 editions though but will still deal in the others i just don't think they'll stockpile them.

the possible snags for them are a serious change in the financial climate and back in to recession. interest rate rises might also force a few people to re-evaluate their collections and look to cash in, if this happens wholesale then watch values dip.

whatever way you look at it the editions are tiny, Kate and the soup cans are the only real comparable prints to CYW so expect to see a similar, relative, turnover/availability/premium attached.

I work as a builder, and the majority of workers on site now are from the EU.

To deny that workers coming from the EU is a threat is moronic, they are coming and accepting wages of much less than British workers, forcing us out of the jobs. (would you be happy to take a paycut from a job you'd been doing 15/20 years)

The amount of jobs I have had to finish off because the unacceptable work some Polish builders have done is unbelievable...
I have priced for jobs leaving next to no profit, just so I have a weekly wage coming in, only to have foreign builders put in prices 40% below. A few weeks/months later you have the same customers ringing back asking you to put this work right.

This obviously isn't the case with all foreign workers, but when there are those out there putting in these ridiculous prices for work, it is forcing proper tradesmens prices down and homeowners at risk.

So to say it is lazy and offensive to say they are a threat, you are so far off the mark you are deluded

I think you need to stick your hard hat on and have a wonder around London's building sites. I've been a qualified electrician for 6 years now and see these things from the inside. It now takes three to four years and a fair bit of money to get a city and guilds qualification in electrical installation. Even with that you wouldn't be recognised as an electrician with the governing body until you obtain an NVQ (at least a year and a further £800...sometimes up £2000) add to that the yearly changes in the regulations and the subsequent exams we all need to take to keep up to date (£250 a pop) coupled with building regulations, part p, health and safety etc etc...that's a lot of qualifications just to get onto a site.

I have no idea whatsoever how foreign electricians are able to work on our sites when they don't have these stringent UK only qualifications, and believe me, they do not have them. I'm fully qualified but don't have the NVQ. The NVQ wasn't relevant when I qualified but the governing body back dated their own rules and now you won't be recognised as being qualified until you pay the £800 to take the course. Due to my qualifications and experience I'd actually find it pretty hard to get a job in London because no agency wants to pay the going rate for an electrician (ironically set by the governing body mentioned before). They want cheap labour which often equates to foreign labour which means standards aren't met as relevant qualifications aren't held. Company's and agencies don't care.

It's dead out there for electricians unless you're Polish. Off the top of my head I know 20 electricians who are out of work and unable to find work in that trade despite all the work that is currently being done in London. One particular chap I know has signed up with thirty or so agencies and has had one call in the last four months. Dead as a dodo until it go's belly up and they they'll be calling out for us lads to go in and fix everything that blew up when the power was switched on.

This is the sole reason why Wembly stadium went tits up. 70-80% foriegn work force....all the electrics had to be redone, by properly qualified electrictions. the sewage system also leaked like a sieve and had to be re-done.

shame warmgun ....that we dont look after are own qualified tradsman ........1 day it will backfire big time i m o ............like you say wembley stadium what a mess !!!!! but now i know where to come to get some good (cheap) electrics done

with respect i'm not deluded, i've worked in the building trade for 15 years, i've seen wages quadruple in that time period and the standard of work diminish ten fold - and that is from English/British workmen!!

it used to be the case that you couldn't get a decent plumber or sparky, therefore prices went through the roof, now that we are seeing a correction in wages and prices accordingly people like yourself are crying because you don't earn three times the national average - or more even - these days.

if you're good at what you do then you will always get work, my firm has been flat out this year. yes, margins are down significantly but we're still able to pick and choose what we do and have been taking on extra labour in 2010 not laying blokes off.

if a customer/client get good a good tradesman with top notch testimonials at a decent price then they will, if they fail to take due diligence at the point of instructing a contractor then they will end up in the shit state you describe - but please, whatever you do, don't make out us British are any better than those from the EU that are coming over.
Bricklayers in particular in this country are shocking, i'm a roof slater/tiler and i can lay bricks better than 90% of the brickies that go before me.

it might be a different story in the north west, i don't purport to be an expert in your area but here in the south east i'd welcome anyone from any country that has got a bit of go in them - so many blokes on site these days haven't got a days work in them IMHO.

just had a look for completed listing on ebay - the prints sold for under £3k were all greys.

the coloured ones are still fetching a premium, but they might be shill bids.

does any one else think that the high prices are due to the idiot that posted first on ebay and asked for £10k for his print? monkey see, monkey do.

i'd say it's more to do with the low ed. no's and people's assumption that if last year's NBG goes for say £2.5k? then CYW must be more, i'm not sure that's a fair assumption as there are more CYW's than NBG's in total but it's a little like comparing apples to oranges and markets will ultimately determine a fair price.

so the greys are going under £3k now?

Do you know if any queue jumping gone for under 3K?

Ignore: just saw the above post with the prices