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Right, but isn't the user of 867-5309 free to sell what interest he _does_ have in the number? That is, he has the number until the phone company says he doesn't. The buyer is overpaying, to be sure, but he'd be getting exactly what the current user of the number had.
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That's right -- the seller can undoubtedly hold a transaction like this so long as they have control of the number. But you better believe by now that the phone service-provider has looked quite carefully at this and realized, holy god, that's a hell of a valuable number. They could, theoretically, "repossess" the number -- take it away from the current owner right now and give them some new, worthless number, so the phone carrier could auction off the cool number and pocket the profits themselves.
Mind you, it's unlikely they'd do that. Phone carriers have for years been reserving the really cool numbers -- ones with combinations of 000's or other digits that make them particularly easy to remember, or ones that spell out a particular corporation's name -- and selling access to them for a price. The phone guys have known for years that elite phone numbers are worth a lot.
However, they generally wouldn't pay much attention to numbers that have random cultural value, such as this Tommy Tutone one. I think things like this are the ones that slip through the cracks. But since there are millions of mobile numbers in existence, and since Ebay is a pretty easy instrument with which anyone can quickly determine the market value of a good, it wouldn't surprise me if we see even more culturally-valuable numbers emerge in the next little while.
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:-) (There's a big market for automible license plates too.)
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Right, but isn't the user of 867-5309 free to sell what interest he _does_ have in the number? That is, he has the number until the phone company says he doesn't. The buyer is overpaying, to be sure, but he'd be getting exactly what the current user of the number had.
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That's right -- the seller can undoubtedly hold a transaction like this so long as they have control of the number. But you better believe by now that the phone service-provider has looked quite carefully at this and realized, holy god, that's a hell of a valuable number. They could, theoretically, "repossess" the number -- take it away from the current owner right now and give them some new, worthless number, so the phone carrier could auction off the cool number and pocket the profits themselves.
Mind you, it's unlikely they'd do that. Phone carriers have for years been reserving the really cool numbers -- ones with combinations of 000's or other digits that make them particularly easy to remember, or ones that spell out a particular corporation's name -- and selling access to them for a price. The phone guys have known for years that elite phone numbers are worth a lot.
However, they generally wouldn't pay much attention to numbers that have random cultural value, such as this Tommy Tutone one. I think things like this are the ones that slip through the cracks. But since there are millions of mobile numbers in existence, and since Ebay is a pretty easy instrument with which anyone can quickly determine the market value of a good, it wouldn't surprise me if we see even more culturally-valuable numbers emerge in the next little while.
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The puppets from Crank Yankers should call this fella and piss him off.
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The item has been pulled from Ebay.
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LOOK OUT!
Technically, since EVERY phone number in the U.S. is a public resource, 867-5309 really belongs to the F.C.C. which absolutely prohibits the sale, brokering or leasing of a phone number.
Even 800 FLOWERS or 800 HOLIDAY does not belong to those companies, the F.C.C. owns them, those companies just get to use them.
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