Guy selling 212-867-5309 on ebay

[RandomNY]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3077991790&category=1503


That bidding is up to $25,000 just to have this phone number.. I mean the song was cool and all buy come on...

[mascan42]

It's up to 33 grand now, with 6 days to go.

[Sinn Fein]

Complete and utter bullshit... $34,109 right now.

[PyThomas]

Are there any radio stations in NYC that have an all-eighties-pop format? If so, they should get in on this. :loll2:

[RandomNY]

Originally posted by Sinn Fein
Complete and utter bullshit... $34,109 right now.

Couldn't of have said it better myself...

I just hope he forgets to report this "WINFALL" on his taxes and get's fucked from the FEDS :):)

[kloraferm]

How great would it be to find out who paid $35,000 on a bottle of booze and just shove him onto the street?

[ih8Uboo-boo]

It's up to $56,400 now...


Something doesn't seem right, I think that my crap detector is going off...

[ravin]

reguardless if people dont pay for that auction, dude thats sellin has to pay ebay their 5% of the final bid

[100 Grand]

Up to $60,100....

How is it possible to OWN a phone number? Isn't that the property of Verizon or whichever phone service you have?

[sherwood]

Originally posted by 100 Grand
Up to $60,100....


he owes ebay almost 4 grand right now...

[mascan42]

Originally posted by 100 Grand
How is it possible to OWN a phone number? Isn't that the property of Verizon or whichever phone service you have?
He's not selling the number itself - he's selling his authorization for Verizon to transfer the number to someone else.

[sherwood]

anyone wanna buy my Cell phone number? I'll give you a great deal $10,000...


wheres Don West for this one?

"867-5309!! BE DIALIN PEOPLE!! THIS NUMBER IS GEM MINT TEN!!! GEM MINT TEN!! AND YOU CAN HAVE IT NOW FOR THE PRICE OF A NEW HOUSE! THATS RIGHT, SELL YOUR HOUSE SO YOU CAN HAVE THIS PHONE NUMBER!! SELL YOUR HOUSE!! TAKE OUT A MORTGAGE!! AND I'LL THROW IN A SAMMY SOSA ROOKIE CARD!"

[Rob]

anyone call it?

[sherwood]

Originally posted by more-gooder
anyone call it?


just did...got a machine that said "You have reached 212-867-5309...This number is up for auction on Ebay, please email me for any questions you have this number is not accepting messages"

[RandomNY]

Originally posted by 100 Grand
Up to $60,100....

How is it possible to OWN a phone number? Isn't that the property of Verizon or whichever phone service you have?

Well with the new rules it;s a grey area now... you can take your phone number and turn it into a cell phone number with any cell phone company... So he is testing it out... I'mguess Verizon isn't carring too much since they would have done something about it already..

[ResinIII]

Way back in the 80's, when guys would approach me, they would ask my name, I'm Jeri, I would tell them Jenny.And of course that was the phone number I gave them.I worked for the phone company.There is no way somebody could sell that number.Fuckin Verizon....
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[jaydo]

As of 8:50 pm $90,100.00....Ponderus efin, Ponderus......Its a freakin Phone # :madfire

[AngryHugo]

That really is pathetic. I'm gonna have to figure out some choreography to The Safety Dance or some other stupid 80's reference to sell on eBay.......

[jaydo]

OH MY GOD THIS IS OUT OF HAND !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



$230,500.25 NO WAY THIS MUST BE A JOKE ..... CA,MON.........SUPIDITY>>>>>>>>>>>

[mascan42]

That last bid was disqualified as being illegitimate.






























The current bid is only $204,866.00. A bargain. ::hammer:

[IRISHJERICHO]

What the f for a phone number.:drunk:

[ih8Uboo-boo]

Back down to $80,400...

there must have been a bunch of bogus bids...

[Joe Orthex]

he is selling the 212 number, what about all those other 8675309 numbers? 718, 917, 516, ect. ect. can they sell that stupid number too?

[Boston Funbags]

Why the f would you want that number? You'd get so many prank calls it would be REDICULOUS!:clap:

[RandomNY]

I love the other "JENNY" auctions that have come up. 1 guy took a jar and wrote the number on a peice of paper and is selling it.. There is some funny stuff.. Just search 867-5309 in ebay's search and see what comes up.

[mascan42]

GONE!

The item you requested (3077991790) is invalid, still pending, or no longer in our database. Please check the number and try again. If this message persists, the item has either not started and is not yet available for viewing, or has expired and is no longer available.
Something must have happened . . . there were still 4 days left to go on the auction.

[SpotcheckBilly]

Pretty crappy of Jenny to sell the number..the guy in the song asked her not to change it. Money talks I guess. :idiot:




















Chorus:
Jenny, I got your number
I need to make you mine
Jenny, don't change your number
8675309 (8675309)
8675309 (8675309)

[RandomNY]

According to DICE:

TTHHHAAATTT WWHHHOORRREEE!!!!

I'm ova here now!!!!

[sherwood]

i cant even call it now...its a busy signal...

[sherwood]

i called it back up and it went through it gave me another message saying the number is up for auction through his email (jenny2128675309@hotmail.com) maybe ebay removed it?

[jaydo]

This is the latest message on ebay.....
Invalid Item
The item you requested (3077991790) 876-5309 is invalid, still pending, or no longer in our database. Please check the number and try again. If this message persists, the item has either not started and is not yet available for viewing, or has expired and is no longer available. Hmmmmm Fishy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[SOS]

The Reason it was put on hold... (http://miva.jacksonsun.com/miva/cgi-bin/miva?NEWS/news_story.mv+link=200402185866581)

[mascan42]

There seems to be some controversy over whether the guy can legally sell the rights to the number. Even the phone company isn't really sure.

The auctions were put on hold until eBay could determine whether they fell within the company's guidelines, a spokesman said Tuesday night. "People are really creative," said spokesman Henry Gomez. "And this one had us scratching our heads a bit."

Buyers and sellers on eBay enter into a binding contract, he said.

So officials of the auction service have to make sure the seller actually owns the item for sale and has the right to sell it.

He said a determination would be made about the auctions after the sellers and phone companies involved had been consulted.

. . .

The lawyer who owns the New York "Jenny" acquired it a few months ago after he called it and realized no one had it. He got the number from Verizon and has used it as a second line, hooking it up to an answering machine.

Verizon said its customers don't own their phone numbers, so the right to 212-867-5309 cannot be sold.

But in Nashville, a spokeswoman for BellSouth said nothing prevents a customer from transferring a number to someone else.

This is sometimes done for business partners who split up and the other person takes the number, Sybil McLain said.

"What two parties do between themselves is between them," she said. "We provide phone service."

[RandomNY]

The new FCC rules allow you to take your home phone and turn that number into a cell phone.. The other rule allows you move your number from 1 cell phone company to another phone company.. So I can take my verizon home phone number transfer it to a cell number and then take my number to NEXTEL or any other phone service... Verizon has to allow the move...

The guy was testing out the new rules..

[drunkturkey]

This is the same as with the one rate programs that are out there right now. For example, I had Verizon for local, and MCI for LD. Then I moved everything to MCI's one rate program.

Now, I moved that number to Vonage (http://www.vonage.com).

There's nothing Verizon can do about it! They're just pissed they didn't think of it first.