Banksy • Choose Your Weapon Print, by raiden on Dec 13, 2010 7:01:50 GMT 1, Clearly, any method in which I don't get a print is unfair

I didn't have the ability to chime in previously after getting banned from the forum for 24 hours (a first) though probably deservedly so after breaking my own rule of never criticizing those who aren't sufficiently famous enough to absorb the criticism. In this case, I was definitely unduly harsh to Simon and Dora (who are actually super nice and I shouldn't have laid so much blame upon.)

Nevertheless, this could have been much much worse. Just like a concert promoter who puts on an event where people get trampled, POW as a gallery and Banksy deserve quite a bit of blame for putting people in harms way in how this was handled and need to take ownership of the fact that prints are going for nearly half the salary of the average American at a time when the world economy is terrible.

That's a recipe for disaster. Like I said before, most bank robberies don't net the amount a Banksy print does at this point.

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Any future live releases should be done much like VLH, where you have a live lottery.

One possibility, you must come down and buy your ticket for £5 ticket between 6:00 pm and 6:00 am and you must be present as numbers are called at 8:00 am. Tickets are registered in a person's name, so you can't go buy one for a friend. One print per person per credit card.

And set a prohibition on flipping the print for one year, such that if a particular numbered work is flipped, you are forever barred from purchasing a Banksy again on a name, credit card, and email basis.

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Any future online lotteries should be on a one per person, per email, per credit card basis. In order to register, you must pay £10 toward a charity.

Once again, ownership could not change hands for a year on these.

This keeps it mostly to people who really want the print, such that they are willing to risk £10 to get it. This method would significantly reduce, not eliminate, any of the typical hanky panky: registering multiple emails, having friends and family register on your behalf, using any automated systems, etc.

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I also liked the idea behind Santa's Ghetto in Bethlehem. I was hoping it would be an annual concept to take a show to some far off, under privileged place.

Clearly, any method in which I don't get a print is unfair

I didn't have the ability to chime in previously after getting banned from the forum for 24 hours (a first) though probably deservedly so after breaking my own rule of never criticizing those who aren't sufficiently famous enough to absorb the criticism. In this case, I was definitely unduly harsh to Simon and Dora (who are actually super nice and I shouldn't have laid so much blame upon.)

Nevertheless, this could have been much much worse. Just like a concert promoter who puts on an event where people get trampled, POW as a gallery and Banksy deserve quite a bit of blame for putting people in harms way in how this was handled and need to take ownership of the fact that prints are going for nearly half the salary of the average American at a time when the world economy is terrible.

That's a recipe for disaster. Like I said before, most bank robberies don't net the amount a Banksy print does at this point.

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Any future live releases should be done much like VLH, where you have a live lottery.

One possibility, you must come down and buy your ticket for £5 ticket between 6:00 pm and 6:00 am and you must be present as numbers are called at 8:00 am. Tickets are registered in a person's name, so you can't go buy one for a friend. One print per person per credit card.

And set a prohibition on flipping the print for one year, such that if a particular numbered work is flipped, you are forever barred from purchasing a Banksy again on a name, credit card, and email basis.

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Any future online lotteries should be on a one per person, per email, per credit card basis. In order to register, you must pay £10 toward a charity.

Once again, ownership could not change hands for a year on these.

This keeps it mostly to people who really want the print, such that they are willing to risk £10 to get it. This method would significantly reduce, not eliminate, any of the typical hanky panky: registering multiple emails, having friends and family register on your behalf, using any automated systems, etc.

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I also liked the idea behind Santa's Ghetto in Bethlehem. I was hoping it would be an annual concept to take a show to some far off, under privileged place.