1970s/6Chinese walking stick cue £179 ?

[Geoff Large]

I see these all the time on ebay at stupid money ?

These cues where brought into the Uk by Daymoat in Leeds direct from China by their thousands in the 1970s / 80s and they where trade at £3.50p and retailed at £7 to £10 as novelty cues .

Rubbish to play with
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NOVELTY-VI...item540ac4b27b

worth no more than £15 as a novelty item

[bigandyg]

Junk indeed.

[sberry]

yeah but no but....

yes they are junk novelty items which are crap to play with and not worth a tenner but if you look at sold listings on ebay they regularly go for upsides of a bullseye and sometimes for a ton plus so its all in the marketing and when people don't know what they're worth people will pay wrong money for them

if I could be bothered i'd snap 'em up for a tenner and bung 'em back for 75 ono

you wouldn't want some imaginative relative spending 75 on one for you for xmas though, just because they know you like snooker

[Geoff Large]

there was one once advertised on ebay a few years ago before everyone jumped on the band wagon with some right BS tale about it .

the story went I was walking past the marina in Monaco admiring the boats and an Arab sheikh invited me on board , we got on very well and he gave me this carved walking stick cue which was presented to him by some foreign dignitary whilst visiting , the cue is a one off and an ideal opportunity to acquire this once in a life time sale , price £950 , and believe it or not IT SOLD !
I think on the back of that sale more have appeared on eBay for sale , I used to pick these up in boxes of 48 from Arthur Varley at Daymoat in Leeds and sell them around the pub's and club's of Nottingham and Derby , we would pay £3.50p for each one in boxes of 48 and sell them at £10 each we would pay £168 for a box and sell them in a month for £480 they literally flew out the door , they sold really well in the 1980s and along with the firm also selling them I reckon there must be Thousands of them in the UK , and a good 200 plus where sold in Nottingham .
so plenty to come up for sale on ebay where the average price paid for them is £75