How Much Is Your Phone Number Worth?
from the phone-number-speculators dept
There have been stories for years about how, in China, beliefs about the “good luck” associated with the number “8” have made made mobile phone numbers that include more 8s more valuable. I vaguely recall stories of Chinese entrepreneurs auctioning off high 8 phone numbers online (though, I can’t seem to find them now). The latest, though, is the top of the top. The phone number 8888 8888 was auctioned off to a Chinese airline for approximately $280,000. Not quite as crazy as some of the domain name speculative buys during the boom years, but of a similar nature. The airline says they’re not really concerned with the superstition surrounding the number – but rather, they’re excited because the number is so damn easy to remember.
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There is this interesting article on a site called techdirt about people selling dollar bills with lots of 8’s in them…
http://techdirt.com/articles/20010525/2249236.shtml
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Sneaky, sneaky, sneaky. I knew it was somewhere on Techdirt, but multiple attempts at searching it out turned up nothing. Good thing that others are better at searching Techdirt than I am.
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Somebody should whip up a Perl script that searches your text index every time you hit submit with a new post and warns you if it appears to be closely related or a duplicate.
I bet you could sell said script too – Slashdot definately needs something like that!
enquiry
Hi. Sorry to trouble you, I was reading about the number 8 being lucky for the chinese people, and I wondered if you can tell me how to sell my number and how much it might be worth? the number is 07831 588888.
Regards
Geoff
How much would this number be worth???
Hi. Sorry to trouble you, I was reading about the number 8 being lucky for the chinese people, and I wondered if you can tell me how to sell my number and how much it might be worth?
The number is ….. 07940328888
i look forward to your responce
Kind Rehards
DAVID
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