Ricky Walden on eBay for £600

[ferret]

Yep Ricky is selling himself on eBay for £600 well £500 with £100 being postage lol (Traveling and hotel anyway)

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Snooker-Exhibi...QQcmdZViewItem

[Semih_Sayginer]

seems a good offer, especially for a busy club of players who also watch the game too (as some folk like to play but dont watch too much), as hed be known to most, and has quite a good style of play which helps in exos

[Sarmu]

lol £100 for postage

[April madness]

an illustration to this thread?

[Semih_Sayginer]

also, good to see this in the deal:-

If Ricky does not hit 1 century on the Night, we will donate £200.00 of the fee to The Paul Hunter Foundation

ok, he will probably hit one on almost every exhibition, but doubtful at every exhibition, so good to see him nominating a more than worthy charity to benefit.

[JaneDoe]

Return policy not specified.

aww shame

[ADR147]

its sad that a professional snooker player has to do that - in golf or tennis there is no way!!!

[WALTER-ITALY]

its sad that a professional snooker player has to do that - in golf or tennis there is no way!!!

Yes I agree ,is sad ,but is the right thing to do .In my opinion the main problem is the share of prize money sometime the prize of last 32 or 48 don't cover travel&hotel costs..only 64 players gain money in every ranking event.Other consecuence the oversea's players fresh-coming in the main tour have serious material problems to "survive" in Britain

[Wity]

Who the hell needs prize money when your making £500 quid a night for playing.

[gingerale]

Seems like Ricky the item wasn't a successful business concept. Will they try this again?

[PaulTheSoave]

Well, the bidding ended and he got ZERO bids! Sums it up me thinks!!

I got more bids for my snooker dvd's!

[gingerale]

I actually think selling autographs or DVD of his would have been a more profitable choice. Do you believe any of the players sell their own items sometimes? E.g. very rare signature of XY on beer stained shirt collar 1989 and stuff like that?

[PaulTheSoave]

I am sure White got a dozen of the latter! I bet hes saving it for his pension scheme!

Well, the BBQ is waiting, so I am off for a slurp as well, as this is reckoned to be the last nice day!! (in May).

[ADR147]

Who the hell needs prize money when your making £500 quid a night for playing.

how could anyone survive on a measly £500 a night - surely thats just for beer!

[leeroygor]

Well, the bidding ended and he got ZERO bids! Sums it up me thinks!!

I got more bids for my snooker dvd's!

Just thought i'd bring this back to the top just to clear up a point or 2 made. I actually put this on ebay. I help to look after Ricky's calender and as most people know, there is usually very little activity in the Summer but this year there is a lot going on, shanghai, thai open, german open, english open plus the world series pro am's to mention but a few so we thought it would be good to try for a couple of mid summer exhibitions/matches to keep in shape.

Ricky did 2 exhibitions for me in April and they were outstanding and not too expensive at £500.00. He did hit tonnes in both exhibitions.

Its very difficult to make people aware that you are available for exhibition but we did get 1 sucessful enquiry albeit, it did not go through ebay and somebody has been in touch via his own website www.rickywalden.co.uk about going to Israel which is good.

Seriously, if any club had 12 players who would like to play an up and coming pro who I have to say we have high expectations for then Ricky would be a good booking.