mobile number 04 3700 3700 $worth?

[Ext User(Robert Stephenson)]

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?

thanks
rob

[Ext User(Blondie)]

Why would it be worth anything, what do you suggest is the signifigance of
the number ?

"Robert Stephenson" <robertstephenson@iinet.net.au> wrote in message
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>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?
>
> thanks
> rob
>
>
>

[Ext User(streetwise)]

Nothing, now that you have advertised it all over usenet...................






"Robert Stephenson" <robertstephenson@iinet.net.au> wrote in message
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|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?
|
| thanks
| rob
|
|
|

[Ext User(Robert Stephenson)]

thats not very helpfull, why bother replying?


"streetwise" <support@microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Nothing, now that you have advertised it all over
> usenet...................
>
>
>
>
>
>
> "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?
> |
> | thanks
> | rob
> |
> |
> |
>

[Ext User(Spankalogical Protocol)]

"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?
>
> thanks
> rob
>
>
>

Keep your eye on this for a guide i spose.

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5820573451

[Ext User(Robert Stephenson)]

cheers


"Spankalogical Protocol" <spank@protocol.com> wrote in message
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>
> "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?
>>
>> thanks
>> rob
>>
>>
>>
>
> Keep your eye on this for a guide i spose.
>
> http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5820573451
>
>

[Ext User(Spokes)]

Good luck with it.

[Ext User(Dogfart)]

On Sat, 22 Oct 2005, at 23:14:51 [GMT +1000] (23:14:51 Saturday, 22 October
2005 where I live) "Spankalogical Protocol" wrote:

> Keep your eye on this for a guide i spose.

> http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5820573451

"For sale is this unbelievably-rare mobile phone number." etc etc drivel
drivel.

Jeez I just can't believe how rare this is.


Zzzzzzzzzzzzz

[Ext User(Martin Taylor)]

Dogfar said....

> "For sale is this unbelievably-rare mobile phone number." etc etc drivel
> drivel.

Aren't ALL mobile numbers "unbelievably-rare"?

Anyway, I can't believe, or perhaps I should, it IS Ebay, after all,
that anyone would have bid on it.

Takes all kinds, I s'pose...?

[Ext User(I'm not giving my name to a machine)]

"Martin Taylor" <mjpt_57@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
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> Dogfar said....
>
>> "For sale is this unbelievably-rare mobile phone number." etc etc drivel
>> drivel.
>
> Aren't ALL mobile numbers "unbelievably-rare"?

Good point.

> Anyway, I can't believe, or perhaps I should, it IS Ebay, after all,
> that anyone would have bid on it.
>
> Takes all kinds, I s'pose...?

[Ext User(Giles)]

> > "For sale is this unbelievably-rare mobile phone number." etc etc drivel
> > drivel.
>
> Aren't ALL mobile numbers "unbelievably-rare"?

Yeah, but rare also means "marked by unusual quality, merit, or appeal;
distinctive". One of those subjective eye/beholder things - which
makes it easy for auction sellers to make (embarrassingly tacky)
claims.

'Tis surprising how much some phone numbers are worth to people, though.

[Ext User(Martin Taylor)]

Giles said....

> Yeah, but rare also means "marked by unusual quality, merit, or appeal;
> distinctive". One of those subjective eye/beholder things - which
> makes it easy for auction sellers to make (embarrassingly tacky)
> claims.

I could probably understand it for businesses to have numbers that may
be easy for customers to remember, or for radio stations to have their
call in numbers that match the station's frequency, etc. But to pay that
sort of dough for something that's most likely to be used as a private
number.....

> '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)]

"Robert Stephenson" <robertstephenson@iinet.net.au> wrote in message
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> 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

[Ext User(Rick Springfield)]

"Horace Wachope_" <horacewachope@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> 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?

> That would have been early 1997 from memory. Kept two for myself (one for
> me and one for Mrs Wachope - so we had cutesy pie matching numbers) and
> put
> the others on Flexiplan 20. I ended up getting sick of paying $240 pa for
> each of those ones and just disconnected them some time in 1998, I think.
>
> I imagine there would have been some very annoyed 018-aaa-bbb people out
> there.

[Ext User(Horace Wachope_)]

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).

That would have been early 1997 from memory. Kept two for myself (one for
me and one for Mrs Wachope - so we had cutesy pie matching numbers) and put
the others on Flexiplan 20. I ended up getting sick of paying $240 pa for
each of those ones and just disconnected them some time in 1998, I think.

I imagine there would have been some very annoyed 018-aaa-bbb people out
there.

[Ext User(Zak Nickotel)]

Horace said....

> 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

When did this occur?

When my Nokia 100 died I decided to bite the bullet and get a GSM
(analog still had some time left to run). I couldn't get the same number
as the analog (eg 018 555 555 to 04xx 555 555). I had to accept whatever
was the "next number in line".

[Ext User(Michael)]

"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).
>
> That would have been early 1997 from memory. Kept two for myself (one for
> me and one for Mrs Wachope - so we had cutesy pie matching numbers) and
put
> the others on Flexiplan 20. I ended up getting sick of paying $240 pa for
> each of those ones and just disconnected them some time in 1998, I think.
>
> I imagine there would have been some very annoyed 018-aaa-bbb people out
> there.

Not really, their problem for not upgrading from 018 to 0418!

I heard MNET is going to release a new number range shortly

[Ext User(Michael)]

"Zak Nickotel" <znickotel@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
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> Horace said....
>
> > 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
>
> When did this occur?
>
> When my Nokia 100 died I decided to bite the bullet and get a GSM
> (analog still had some time left to run). I couldn't get the same number
> as the analog (eg 018 555 555 to 04xx 555 555). I had to accept whatever
> was the "next number in line".

The 018s were reserved for 0418s for yonks.

Then Telstra went to translating numbers, where everyone got an equivalent
number, 99.9% of people got a number based on their AMPS no.

If you rang the GSM number and it wasnt connected it went to the AMPS.

Was something like
0407 015 014, then 017
0408 018
0409 019

Now its all a bit hazy, but something like thta
>
>

[Ext User(Horace Wachope_)]

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.

[Ext User(Horace Wachope_)]

On Mon, 07 Nov 2005 10:29:22 GMT, Michael wrote:

> "Zak Nickotel" <znickotel@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
> news:436f0209.4eb91222.bm005@yahoo.com.au...
>> Horace said....
>>
>>> 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
>>
>> When did this occur?
>>
>> When my Nokia 100 died I decided to bite the bullet and get a GSM
>> (analog still had some time left to run). I couldn't get the same number
>> as the analog (eg 018 555 555 to 04xx 555 555). I had to accept whatever
>> was the "next number in line".
>
> The 018s were reserved for 0418s for yonks.
>
> Then Telstra went to translating numbers, where everyone got an equivalent
> number, 99.9% of people got a number based on their AMPS no.
>
> If you rang the GSM number and it wasnt connected it went to the AMPS.
>
> Was something like
> 0407 015 014, then 017
> 0408 018
> 0409 019
>
> Now its all a bit hazy, but something like thta

That sounds about right.

The 040 ranges were a bit after my time (in fact, I think even 0417 was
perhaps after my time). I remember that they used to offer free
redirections from AMPS to GSM for 18 months as part of the "Jaw Dropper"
deals.

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

I didn't put my 0418 numbers on the staff plan because some of their 018
equivalents belonged to Strathfield executives, and when they bitterly
complained to the B&G powers-that-be (which was inevitable), I didn't want
it obvious that the numbers had been "stolen" by a Telstra employee.

I left shortly after that, anyway.