This is news to me, but apparently people (not businesses) want to buy good/lucky phone numbers. Has anyone done this either buying or selling one? What was your process?
I have a number with 888 in the middle. No idea how much it might be worth to someone. But interested to hear anyone's experience, cos again I didn't even think this was a thing…
Sold. Better than tree fiddy.
Particularly Chinese as the number 8 (ba first sound) in Chinese Mandarin sounds similar to fa (1st sound), which means make fortune. It's super niche, really up to you to make an offer to a person interested or vice versa. Number dealings are super popular in China but not so much here I guess. I mean Australian numbers starts with 04 which is consider bad in Chinese anyways. License plates, on the other hand, could fetch a good price
Worth a couple of hundred, apparently. Even more if it's an easy number to remember.
This ebay account has sold 162 numbers since it started.
https://www.ebay.com.au/usr/mobilenumbersaustralia?_trksid=p…
I'm trying to sell a "444" number but no luck so far.
Am only asking for half the price of the "888"
who want to buy half the luck?
It could be 0444 888 444…The individual digits still add up!
Now that's a good number.
@bobbified: even better if you have a partner with that number, less chance of forgetting it , now I call that lucky lol
@boomramada: I'm just picturing my (asian) family blaming every little bad thing that happens to me on that number!
😂
I once had a car with the number plate 444 (not counting the 2 alphabet prefix) - and when the car died of “heart attack”, to be written off, someone I know (originally South African) specifically asked for the plate. In his eyes, it’s a good number :-)
too bad, not single but triple death.
i feel sorry for the guy with 0400000000
I do too! I think about him/her every time I fill out a dodgey online form!
Although I sometimes try to be fair and use 0411111111 and 0422222222, etc too.
The ACMA has set aside a bunch of phone numbers for use for fictional purposes like TV, movies, and books.
No need to feel bad, I just tried calling it and the automated message says the number is not connected
So all’s good
That's just my voicemail
Have you tried Triple Eight Racing?
OMG!!! Really?
lol
What are the other numbers?
6 and 7
And houses, I remember years ago when houses were around the 700k mark in Chatswood Sydney, one was advertised for $888,888. At the time it seemed like a preposterous, cynical, opportunistic grab for money, but seems a bargain now.
This is news to me
…. cos again I didn't even think this was a thing…
If you have to repeat it twice in a short OP then ….
I got something that is 888 and im still not a billionaire. Doesnt work, I want a refund.
I'll give u $2
FFS
Belief in this gibberish is almost as bad as religion.
I bid $8.88. serious bid.
Eight dollar and eighty-eight cents