Video: Adam Greenwood speaks about the shop being put up for sale
A Robin Hood exhibit that opened for business just six months ago is now on sale to bidders on eBay.
The Robin Hood Legacy is an interactive attraction where visitors are taken through various rooms with different settings and meet characters with projected faces that talk them through the historical story.
However the shop is now on sale on the auction site and includes a ‘Buy it now’ price of £25,000 as current owner David Ward is retiring.
Manager and the resident Robin Hood Adam Greenwood said: “Selling businesses on eBay is a lot more common than a lot of people realise.
“But really the point of the eBay advert was to get attention and cast the net a little bit wider.
“I don’t really think people are going to click buy now on a £25,000 item.”
The first six months of trading proved to be popular with the public and tourists.
Manager and resident Robin Hood, Adam Greenwood said: “We got quite well-known, and we had people who even made special trips to Nottingham just to see us.
“The owner really believes in this business and set it up looking forward to it have a long term future, but he can see that it needs someone younger with fresh ideas who has got the passion to carry it forward for the next 20 or more years.”
According to Adam, the owner is looking either to sell the business outright or to have a fifty-fifty partnership with someone else and become a sleeping partner.
Adam said: “The person suitable would have ideas which are in keeping with how we have begun.
“A person who would want to take over a business such as ours would want to grow it and evolve it, so we are looking for someone who likes what we do and wants to build on it.
“There are at least two very serious candidates looking at it at the moment.”
Adam said that the projects for the future of the business are to create more stories for the interactive adventure and perhaps also a partnership with similar attractions in other parts of the country.
He said: “Every city has their local character and in the country there are other attractions with a similar structure and customer base to us, such as the King Arthur’s Labyrinth is Snowdonia, so if we created some sort of grouping it could become quite a big thing.”
