Alongside an attempt to break a world record for beer mat flipping, Jim Haysom is also selling 6,300 new beer mats on eBay.co.uk and raising money for the NCT charity. He has also received recent coverage in the local press with features in the Crawley News and The Argus.
Jim Haysom said “You might ask why I have so many? Well I once ran a dotcom company called Pub2Club.com between 1999 and 2001, and had a limited production of 20,000 beer mats made promoting the company and website address. After distributing over 13,500 in one summer, the remaining beer mats that were still sealed and in their original packaging, stayed with me after the company was closed down.”
“Now it’s time to clear out my garage and put the last of this beer mat memorabilia and nostalgia to rest. But rather than throw them all away, I thought I’d sell them and raise some money for charity.”
He said “I am not making any profit, as a minimum of £1 is given to the NCT charity (National Childbirth Trust) from each stack of beer mats sold. MissionFish will take this donation from the final value of each winning auction. Each stack of the 63 stacks have a starting bid of £5.99 and will be shipped for free with 1st class recorded delivery. I will ship worldwide for an additional £6.00 to cover postage to any country, with any remaining monies donated to the charity.”
“After eBay and PayPal fees, postage and packaging, any remaining money will be rolled up and donated to the NCT via www.justgiving.com/jimhaysom where I am trying to raise £1000. I’m running the 2010 Virgin London Marathon and this will help towards my fundraising target.”
Click here to place a bid on eBay.co.uk for one of the 63 lots for sale, of sealed and unused stacks of 100 beer mats. The auctions end on Sunday 19th July 2009.
