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| AARON HERNANDEZ |
Some fans selling Hernandez merchandise on eBay are garnering more than double face value for the threads, according to the Boston Globe.
A Florida man, wanting to rid himself of the alleged killer’s No. 81, put the jersey up for sale, thinking “I might get $15 for it.” On Sunday, it sold for $289.
“I can’t think of any reason why people would want it,” Lynn L’Heureux of Oxford, Mass., told the Globe. “They might think it will go up in value later on, and maybe it will, but I’m not interested. I just don’t want it in my possession. I want to use the money to buy a jersey that reflects my pride in the Patriots.”
L’Heureux is selling a $100 Hernandez jersey and the bidding has gone over $130. There’s an authentic Hernandez Nike jersey, usually an $80 to $100 value, up to $227.50 on eBay. Two other Hernandez jerseys, both autographed, have eclipsed the $200 mark on the site. Even a pylon signed by the disgraced tight end is up for sale at $199.99.
“I loved Hernandez,” said 16-year-old Methuen, Mass., resident Brett Iannazzo whose $100 Hernandez jersey is at more than $130 in bidding. “Whenever I got a double in baseball, I’d do his end zone dance; take out the briefcase and make it rain. Now, I’m done with that. I’m done with him.”
Meanwhile, the Patriots are allowing fans with Hernandez jerseys to bring them in and redeem them for another player’s duds free of charge.
Hernandez, 23, was charged with murder in the alleged execution-style killing of his fiancee’s boyfriend Odin Lloyd. He is also being investigated by Boston police in connection with a 2012 murder and is being sued by another man who claims Hernandez shot him in the face.
Yet his jersey sales online are hotter than ever.
“I would actually pay money to know the story of who is buying it and why,” said Jeff Brown of Wakefield, Mass., who is selling a signed jersey on eBay that he and his 9-year-old son bought last year at a charity children’s auction.
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