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You can get a copy of Charlie Hebdo – if you're ready for a bidding war on eBay









Edition of French magazine from 2011 snapped up for €10,000 on the online auction site as latest issue instantly sells out in France

















‘No more Charlie’: a news kiosk in Nice. Photograph: Brendan Donnelly/Demotix/Corbis




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If you’re still hunting down a copy of some of Charlie Hebdo’s previous and current editions, chances are you’ll be out luck.
Copies of a 2011 edition of Charlie Hebdo magazine with a drawing of the prophet Muhammad on the cover were selling for as much as €10,000 ($11,787) on eBay on Wednesday, hours after the magazine published its first edition since the attack on its Paris offices a week ago.
The new issue bears a drawing of the prophet Muhammad on its cover that evokes the 2011 “Charia Hebdo” issue that was selling expensively online on Wednesday.
The latest Charlie Hebdo instantly sold out in France on Wednesday morning. The publisher announced it would print an additional 2m copies, bringing the total print run to 5m. The typical run has been about 1% of that.
The new edition was on sale on eBay as well, mostly offered at mere double-digit markups on its €2.50 cover price, although one optimistic buyer was asking €100,000. Copies of the magazine also were offered for sale on Craigslist for as much as $1,500, while Air France was giving the magazine away.
One French seller of the new issue, who gave his name as Thomas, from Concarneau, said he was selling three copies he bought at a newsstand this morning.
“I didn’t hesitate to put the Charlies up for sale, given that I don’t profiteer off the tragedy of others, at least from my point of view,” he told the Guardian in an email. “On the other hand, the best profiteers of our age are the politicians who win votes and have a good time about it.”
Some eBay users selling the latest issue of the magazine photographed themselves holding it to prove possession, but the authenticity of the sales could not be immediately verified. Hundreds of vendors were offering the magazine for sale on the site on Wednesday, from many countries including France, Italy, Germany, Norway, Canada and Russia.
Three eBay auctions of the 2011 “Charia Hebdo” issue tracked at midday by the Guardian resulted in sales of the issue for €5,050, €10,000 and €6,950 respectively.
Copies of the new issue were expected to arrive in New York City on Friday morning. The magazine’s North American distributor told the New York Post that only 300 copies would be sold in the US. About 1,500 copies of the new issue were to go on sale in Canada, the distributor told CNN.



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