--- title: Historic Charlie Hebdo Issue Selling for $1,100 on eBay description: After millions of copies of this week's issue of Charlie Hebdo sold out, the historic edition turned up for auction on eBay and reportedly drew bids reaching £760 (roughly $1,150). Asking prices have soared as high as €100,000—the equivalent of about $118,000. authors: - name: Brad Tuttle role: Senior Editor url: https://money.com/author/brad-tuttle/ bio: Brad Tuttle is a former senior editor at Money with over 10 years’ experience covering a vast number of personal finance topics, including careers, cars, travel, budgeting, investing, insurance, credit cards, consumer psychology, real estate, banking, and shopping and deals. education: Columbia University School of Journalism, MS at_money_since: 2014 articles: 366 covers: - Business - Banking - Career Advice - Credit - Credit Cards - Economy and Politics - Education - Health and Wellness - Housing - Identity Theft - Insurance - Investing - Lifestyle - Loans - Mortgages - Personal Finance - Pets - Professional Services - Retirement - Shopping - Taxes - Technology social: - https://twitter.com/bradrtuttle - https://linkedin.com/in/brad-tuttle-834b225 former_staff: true published: '2015-01-14T16:23:56.000Z' modified: '2024-04-16T05:05:07.000Z' section: Business tags: - Charlie Hebdo - eBay - extremists - France - global economy - Islam - Media - Odd Spending - online auctions - Terrorism word_count: 385 canonical: https://money.com/charlie-hebdo-ebay/ type: Article source: structured-blocks --- > **Disclosure:** We research all brands listed and may earn a fee from our partners. Research and financial considerations may influence how brands are displayed. Not all brands are included. [Learn more](https://money.com/page/disclaimer/). ![The weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo, on January 13, 2015 in Villabe, south of Paris, a week after two jihadist gunmen stormed the Paris offices of the satirical magazine, killing 12 people including some of the country's best-known cartoonists. Its cover features the prophet with a tear in his eye, holding a "Je Suis Charlie" sign under the headline "All is forgiven".](https://img.money.com/2015/01/150114_em_charliehebdoebay1.jpg?crop=289px%2C722px%2C4244px%2C2387px&quality=85) *The weekly Charlie Hebdo in Paris on Jan. 13, 2015, a week after two jihadist gunmen stormed the Paris offices of the satirical magazine, killing 12* Within days of a grisly massacre that killed 12 at the offices of *Charlie Hebdo*, the surviving staffers published a [new issue](https://time.com/3664927/charlie-hebdo-new-issue/) of the French satiric newsweekly. To say copies are in high demand is understating things: Millions of copies have sold out in France at the newsstand price of €3 (about $3.50), and around the globe buyers seeking print editions of the historic issue have turned to online auctions, with many bidding 100 or more times the list price. *Charlie Hebdo,* known for publishing cartoon versions of the Prophet Muhammad and mocking various religions (among other institutions), was reportedly targeted by extremist gunmen seeking "vengeance for the Prophet." The post-massacre edition of the newsweekly again features a [cartoon version of the Prophet](https://time.com/3666862/charlie-hebdo-new-issue-sellout/)—an act that some consider deeply insulting to Islam—along with the words "Je Suis Charlie" (I Am Charlie) and "Tout Est Pardonne" (All Is Forgiven). Normally, *Charlie Hebdo* distributes around 60,000 copies per week. For the latest edition, the print run was hiked to 3 million and has since been upped to 5 million. One week after the killing, people in France waited in long lines early in the morning to buy multiple copies of the new *Charlie Hebdo*. Within hours of those millions of copies selling out, issues began turning up on [eBay](http://www.ebay.com/). On Wednesday the (U.K.) [*Independent*](http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/charlie-hebdo-with-prophet-mohamed-cover-selling-for-more-than-500-on-ebay-9976610.html) reported that online auction bids have passed £500 ($760) at U.K. and U.S. versions of the auction site. The [*Hollywood Reporter*](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/charlie-hebdo-issue-selling-ebay-763565) noted that dozens of bids at one U.K.-based auction pushed the price of one copy up to £760, or $1,153. [CNBC](http://www.cnbc.com/id/102336521) rounded up various copies of the new *Charlie Hebdo* on eBay listed at "Buy It Now" prices of €20,000, €50,000, even €100,000. At today's exchange rates, those asking prices are the equivalent of around $23,500, $60,000, and $118,000, respectively. Starting at the end of this week, a few hundred issues will be [go on sale in the U.S.](https://time.com/3666290/charlie-hebdo-next-issue-paris-terror-attack/) at a select few locations—mostly in big cities such as New York and San Francisco. Presumably, the few sellers with copies will have no trouble finding interested buyers. *Charlie Hebdo* isn't normally distributed in the U.S., but as [*USA Today*](http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2015/01/14/charlie-hebdo-next-issue-hard-to-find-in-stores/21737329/) reported, magazine sellers all over the country are trying to find ways to get their own copies that can be put up for sale. ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "@id": "https://money.com/charlie-hebdo-ebay/#breadcrumb", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://money.com" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Business", "item": "https://money.com/business/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "E-Commerce", "item": "https://money.com/e-commerce/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "Historic Charlie Hebdo Issue Selling for $1,100 on eBay" } ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://money.com/#website", "url": "https://money.com", "name": "Money", "publisher": { "@id": "https://money.com/#organization" } }, { "@type": "WebPage", "@id": "https://money.com/charlie-hebdo-ebay/#webpage", "url": "https://money.com/charlie-hebdo-ebay/", "name": "Historic Charlie Hebdo Issue Selling for $1,100 on eBay", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://money.com/#website" }, "datePublished": "2015-01-14T16:23:56.000Z", "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://money.com/charlie-hebdo-ebay/" }, "inLanguage": "en-US", "breadcrumb": { "@id": "https://money.com/charlie-hebdo-ebay/#breadcrumb" }, "dateModified": "2024-04-16T05:05:07.000Z" }, { "@type": "Article", "headline": "Historic Charlie Hebdo Issue Selling for $1,100 on eBay", "articleSection": "Business", "image": [ { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://img.money.com/2015/01/150114_em_charliehebdoebay1.jpg?crop=289px%2C722px%2C4244px%2C2387px&quality=85", "width": 1012, "height": 569, "caption": "150114_EM_CharlieHebdoEbay" } ], "author": [ { "@type": "Person", "name": "Brad Tuttle", "url": "https://money.com/author/brad-tuttle/", "@id": "https://money.com/author/brad-tuttle/#author", "description": "Brad Tuttle is a former senior editor at Money with over 10 years’ experience covering a vast number of personal finance topics, including careers, cars, travel, budgeting, investing, insurance, credit cards, consumer psychology, real estate, banking, and shopping and deals.\r\n\r\n", "image": "https://img.money.com/2014/01/Brad-Tuttle.png?w=226&h=247&crop=1", "alumniOf": "Columbia University School of Journalism, MS", "sameAs": [ "https://twitter.com/bradrtuttle", "https://linkedin.com/in/brad-tuttle-834b225" ] } ], "publisher": "https://money.com/#organization", "datePublished": "2015-01-14T16:23:56.000Z", "description": "After millions of copies of this week's issue of Charlie Hebdo sold out, the historic edition turned up for auction on eBay and reportedly drew bids reaching £760 (roughly $1,150). 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