Someone from Jesse James’ West Coast Choppers shop, either Jesse or one of his employees, has been posting his items on eBay for sale, including memorabilia and vintage motorcycles. They’ve announced it on their official website and all the items from the seller, Pope of Welding, are straight from Jesse’s shop.
Recently Jesse’s eBay account posted a replica of the Red Baron’s airplane from World War I. The Red Baron was a famous ace German fighter pilot well before the time of the Nazi regime. Jesse (or one of his employees) made the incredibly stupid decision to use the infamous photo of him in a Nazi hat making the Hiel Hilter salute and to circle the airplane in the background. The listing for the item noted that it was the “The actual model as seen in US, People, In Touch, TMZ, etc etc etc and that… pictures of you with it may be worth big bucks someday so bid to win!”
When TMZ called Jesse’s shop to get a comment, they were told all the listings were legitimate. Someone removed the very offensive listing for the airplane, though, just a couple of hours later and it no longer appears under active items for that eBay seller. If you do a search on completed items for the seller, it still comes up though with zero bids.
Another one of the items that was listed by the seller and is now removed is the coffin couch from Jesse’s personal office – the one where Bombshell McGee told Howard Stern that James would regularly have unprotected sex with her on. Unlike the Red Baron replica, James didn’t promise the seller a piece of pop culture DNA.
The question is – is this James’ way of thumbing his nose at the tabloids and the scandal? The Anti-Defamation League told Radar Online that it was a “poor choice” to use that photo to sell the item and that “We hope that West Coast Choppers will do the right thing and choose a less offensive image.” They did, but the damage was already done. Jesse could have sold that stuff at a garage sale or in a less public forum but instead he put it on eBay and included the photo of himself making the Nazi salute like he was proud of it.
Last I heard, the airplane auction was taken down.
I would totally bid on the couch, those things brand new are incredibly expensive- around $3,000. So what if they banged on it, Lysol will take care of any unwanted germs. Damn, I wish I knew about this beforehand. Needs to shop Ebay more often.
Wow, is he dumb, oh wait…he wanted to get caught.
Any (eBay) item that is taken down (before the auction/listing is complete) will show zero bids -even if it was bid upon while the listing was up.
I had heard that the plane had gotten a lot of bids before it (the listing) was taken down.
Oh, JJ – what will we do next? I want you to make this right and you are just wissing all over it!
Ok, several things:
a) Coffin couch? Unless you’re a 15 year old Hot Topic obsessive there’s just no fucking excuse.
b) The man thinks something in the background of a picture showing his soon-to-be-forgotten ass will be worth money one day? Yeah. About as much money as McGee will be charging to let people abuse her down an alley.
And this is the guy Sandra Bullock wants to father her children????????
Sandra, what gives? Who are you?
That is a cool couch, I’m sure it must have been sold already. On Ebay he gets more money then selling his stuff in a garage sale. I’m sure Sandra is already convinced that she married a moron.
That couch should probably be destroyed by the CDC as an environmental hazard.
A little follow up … the plane so far had gotten a high bid of $401 when it (the listing) was canceled.
To find that info you press the “0” next to “bid history”, scroll down and you will find the list of all the bids that were so far placed.
-btw, if anyone needs ridiculous items at outrageous prices -Popcorny has an eBay store and would be glad to assist you with your unwanted cash.
;^D
@ lucy2: No kidding, huh?! Eeeuuww.
The color of that couch is cool, but it’s creepy and it doesn’t even look comfortable.
JJ sure has gone above and beyond to prove that he is a GIANT idiot.
And, slightly off topic, but – speaking as a card-carrying member of the “I could pick ’em better” club, I really do hope Sandra is more choosy next time.
“Coffin couch? Unless you’re a 15 year old Hot Topic obsessive there’s just no fucking excuse. ”
that is exactly what i thought when i saw it, too! not my taste at all…cause i’m a grown up.
JJ really is dumb, isn’t he? He might as well be a 14-year-old boy for all the wacked things he’s done. Don’t know what Sandra saw in this dude.
I think the person who did that thought he/she was being cute, and it’s not, Jesse should fire this person. I like many people have Photoshop, all you have to do is crop the photo and just enlarge the crop image of the airplane. There is no need to have the entire photo. they were being trouble makers and they know it.
Somewhere Robert Pattinson is bidding obsessively on that coffin couch. He’s a method actor.
Well after seeing the couch, it looks pretty narrow – too narrow to have missionary position sex. And uncomfortable. Not that I’m saying they would have normal sex or want to be comfortable.
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