Shops in Paris are selling the magazine for €3 (£2.30), but online listings are offering it for around in a direct purchase for around €50 – and auction lot bids in the UK and US have passed £500.
Google, in particular, would seem a natural for a direct-purchase plan.
Yahoo!, for example, offers a direct-purchase plan yet does not pay a dividend.
The firm, a leading provider of chip technology for telecommunications applications, initiated a dividend earlier this year and is now offering a direct-purchase plan for investors.
Presently, there are a handful of online options for biodegradable coffins and shrouds for natural burial for direct purchase by consumers (i.e., Bellacouche wool felt coffins and shrouds in the UK; in the US, Kinkarako burial and cremation shrouds, and organic, unbleached cotton shrouds from The Natural Burial Company).
However, it was learned that the SPARK curriculum is available for direct purchase for teachers to use in their classrooms without formal training, as the binders are very clear and easy to follow.
Shortly after the release of the auditor general's report, and before members of opposition parties began their attacks, the government announced that it had frozen its budget for the direct purchase of the aircraft at 9 billion Canadian dollars.
Even as the DVD films are released for the rental market, they are priced for direct purchase by consumers, too.
Most conventions will feature some kind of an art show, in which artists' work is displayed, often for direct purchase or auction during the convention.
