Unsurprisingly today there are a large number of listings for the last ever edition of the News of the World newspaper. Closed, following the controversy over phone hacking, the worlds longest running newspaper printed it’s last edition today with a self imposed ban on commercial advertising and all profits from the sale going to charity.I spoke to a former journalist this week and he spoke of the ramifications for advertisers. The News of the World was a cash cow for some clients who would make 10s or even 100s of thousand pounds profit from each advert they ran. Where these companies will now place their advertising pounds and how the loss of the newspaper will affect the UK economy has yet to be discussed.
If you are selling copies on eBay though there is one trend already showing. Sellers who are willing to ship the newspaper worldwide are getting more sales than those selling to the UK only. If you are listing copies for sale make sure you add international shipping as it makes a lot of sense – after all you can still walk to your local newsagents today and pick up a copy but ex-pats and potential buyers around the world can’t buy their own copy so the only way they can buy the last ever edition of the News of the World is on eBay
