Expensive Phone Number

Somebody has a lot of extra money to spend: The famous phone number 867-5309 is for sale. (What?! You haven't heard the irritating little ditty by "Tommy TuTone"?) (Warning to BJU dorm students: That doesn't check. And no, I don't have the CD, Dr. Berg. I just googled and found an MP3.)

When I last looked at it, it was going for roughly $16,000. Now, I think that it must be a business that wants this thing; think of the free publicity it has! No one would ever forget the number. And if you buy the rights to use the song... Wow. That number will be worth every penny that the company spends on it.

Ah! The wonders of transferable numbers.

(Via Slashdot)

It's up to $33K.

Update: Ebay suspended the auction, because the guy didn't technically "own" the phone number. It was over $200,000 when the auction was closed.

Posted by Blog Jones at February 15, 2004 03:21 PM | Category: The "Lighter Side"