Urban Art Association

Was it a verbal agreement or do you have anything in writing?

They're clearly in breach of contract with you, but you don't really have much comeback unless there's documentary proof of the agreement, preferably including the amount you were going to pay.

If you've got proof, get someone to write them a letter (a real one, on paper) in legalspeak and see what happens.

Someone's bought that road sign and are they really selling the £5 poster for £35?

sells known fakes, avoid.

I'd also like to know.

Where is the PROOF he sells fakes?

Don't know him/her, never dealt with him/her and probably never will.

I was referring to post #5: 'sells known fakes, avoid'.

You are right, a poor service does deserve to be slated but has nothing to do with
unsubstantiated rumours about selling fakes.

To be fair to him, his description does say there was 'no direct attribution' so whoever bought it knew they were taking a punt.

I've been collecting Banksy items since 2002 and watched all the recent events with interest. As far as I know there have never been any fake screenprints sold. The only dodgy I am aware of ones are the unnumbered prints that walked out of the back door of the printers in Birmingham.

I don't really know why I'm taking the time to defend Flyjam as his after-sales service doesn't appear to be too good but I have seen too many, for all I know, inexperienced people with no authority pronouncing on prints and sellers they know nothing about.

And they've never owned the Monkey Canvas they have listed with SOLD under it, another scam, put some good legit SOLD stuff Photo nicked from elsewhere) next to your dodgy gear and bingo.. hmmm 'Think I'll take a punt on the street sign', guy seems to know his stuff.

Take your point, numusic. The guy's business practices do leave a lot to be desired.

There's a thread on the ebay forum at the moment. A potential buyer was warned off a print by an unsolicited email from someone else saying the seller was not to be trusted, the print was dodgy etc. He states:

'The signing looks shoddy, the prints never come with a honest sounding story / provenance behind them and are just too cheap.'

Later in the same thread, he's changed his opinion :

'To be honest the numbering looks perfect... when I say that I mean it looks like the POW style numbering (handwriting).

Good luck man... you will have the deal of the century if its proper!'

If anyone has taken any notice of this 'expert' (and it appears that some bids were retracted)
then they could have lost out on a print.

I'm all for helping people new to Banksy, but this illustrates it perfectly - a little knowledge is a very dangerous thing.

But this is the problem we find ourselves in.

Official suppliers seem to be suspect
Tom Tom has had a warning from P.O.W. on this board
Art Republic another official supplier seems to sell on ebay at inflated prices
Punk Daisy seems to be pricing high levels and at several points on their website names Steve Laz as a supplier
Lazinc on openning started selling old prints at high prices - happy coppers 2000


We know there were back door prints from a printers in Birmingham

But other then bad sales service the guy hasn't ripped anyone off that we know off.

Yet people are calling him a scam artist. The sign was bought by a guy in dublin who's shown it to me an it looks great. It could be real it could be fake but it looks good on his wall. He didn't buy it at serious money as real.

But you don't see alot of graf piece for sale recently there was a piece on ebay from a festival it looked great. The choice is the buyers it not for this form to be saying who a scam artist unless they have proof.