Is Your Phone Number Worth $400,000?
How does a one-hit-wonder band from the 80’s make money when the royalties slow to zero? You sell a phone number made famous by the #1 hit: 867-5309.
A New Jersey based DJ company is selling off their famous 867-5309 phone number on eBay.
Made famous by the 80’s hit by Tommy Tutone, virtually all of the 867-5309’s were removed from service.
This one in the 201 area code managed to survive and receives between 8-10,000 calls per year (that’s about 25 per day!).
It’s registered with Vonage (internet) phone company and is easily transferred with a simple modem so the winner can reside anywhere in the US.
Last eBay check showed the bidding at $400,100, the auction ends in 4 days.
Photo by otjep.
cassy on February 6th, 2009 1:41 am
wow! that is a great phone number, but i know only the rich people can afford to buy it on auction, coz its really too expensive and its really has a value, who ever get on the auction specially those who loves collecting things and win the biddingwill be the lucky one!
Jaclyn on February 6th, 2009 8:27 am
That must be a very popular phone number and to sell for so much money! that is amazing. it’s like those items that belonged to elvis presley and other famous people that sell for millions of dollars and he only wore it once or it was something stupid like a glove. it is just amazing to me what people will spend a fortune on sometime’s.
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