mobile number 04 3700 3700 $worth?

[Ext User(Rick Springfield)]

"Horace Wachope_" <horacewachope@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 06 Nov 2005 23:30:11 GMT, Rick Springfield wrote:
>
>> "Horace Wachope_" <horacewachope@gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:ohyjo9vljbdz$.10a8lt5krzwac.dlg@40tude.net...
>>> On Sun, 06 Nov 2005 13:09:32 GMT, Michael wrote:
>>>
>>>> "Robert Stephenson" <robertstephenson@iinet.net.au> wrote in message
>>>> news:435a0a98$1@dnews.tpgi.com.au...
>>>>> I have a number 04 3700 3700
>>>>>
>>>>> Just wondering if you guys can tell me what sort of market exists, and
>>>>> how
>>>>> much this number could be worth?
>>>>
>>>> I almost had 0437 777 777.
>>>> Missed it by one day or so, idjit
>>>
>>> I had some brilliant 0418 numbers like that.
>>>
>>> I grabbed them all the day MobileNet stopped reserving 0418 GSM numbers
>>> for
>>> people with the 018 AMPS equivalent. I got about five of them at $50 a
>>> pop
>>> each (they were all triple triple numbers, but all ten huxtuple numbers
>>> in
>>> the 0418 range had already been taken).
>>
>> Huh? 0418 Cosby?
>
> Heh.
>
> Hextuple.

Ah, I get it now.

[Ext User(DaN)]

I dont see the point in personalised number plates
just makes you easyer to report IMO

On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 10:01:15 +1000, Martin Taylor wrote:

>> 'Tis surprising how much some phone numbers are worth to people, though.
>
> Yeah, like number plates on cars, as well.
>
> For years, it was impossible to get a personalised plate for your car
> here in Victoria. Then Vicroads realised that there was a market for
> this sort of thing. It's been making shitloads ever since. No doubt if
> or when they ever allow more than six characters, that'll open a further
> floodgate of people demanding their personalised plate.
>
> I'd go for a personalised plate, except that Vicroads wouldn't allow
> this one:
>
>
> Can't understand why, either....

[Ext User(Rob Speed)]

"DaN" <news@danscomp.net> wrote in message
news:pan.2005.11.11.04.10.58.808479@danscomp.net.. .
>I dont see the point in personalised number plates
> just makes you easyer to report IMO

I understand the appeal, but I wouldn't pay extra for them.

> On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 10:01:15 +1000, Martin Taylor wrote:
>
>>> 'Tis surprising how much some phone numbers are worth to people, though.
>>
>> Yeah, like number plates on cars, as well.
>>
>> For years, it was impossible to get a personalised plate for your car
>> here in Victoria. Then Vicroads realised that there was a market for
>> this sort of thing. It's been making shitloads ever since. No doubt if
>> or when they ever allow more than six characters, that'll open a further
>> floodgate of people demanding their personalised plate.
>>
>> I'd go for a personalised plate, except that Vicroads wouldn't allow
>> this one:
>>
>>
>> Can't understand why, either....
>

[Ext User(Michael)]

> I think they openly released the 0418s when they were running low on the
> 0419s??

No, the 0418s were available at GSM launch with 0419

0417 was released when stocks ran low

[Ext User(Horace Wachope_)]

On Fri, 11 Nov 2005 11:20:47 GMT, Michael wrote:

>> I think they openly released the 0418s when they were running low on the
>> 0419s??
>
> No, the 0418s were available at GSM launch with 0419

Yes, I'm aware of that. But they "openly released" 0418 well after GSM
launch.

In other words, new customers not migrating from AMPS would be given 0419.
There were far far more 0419 numbers around than 0418 until late 1996,
early 1997.