Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!netsys!vector!telecom-gateway From: decom@dgp.toronto.edu (Jonathan Haruni) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Selling an Interesting Telephone Number? Message-ID: Date: 24 Mar 89 02:16:57 GMT Sender: news@vector.UUCP Organization: University of Toronto Lines: 24 Approved: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 107, message 6 of 6 In article "Anthony E. Siegman" writes: >My residential phone number (415 area code) happens to spell a >quite commercially interesting word. During the 15-plus years I've >had this number I've had a couple of inquiries from businesses wanting >to take it over, paying me something for giving it up. A recent one >seems serious. >Anyone have any thoughts on the dollar value of such a number? Rumor If you're selling your phone number for the money and for no other reason, (ie, I assume that you have not been eager for a career in phone number sales since the age of 12) then it is worth as much as the offering company is willing to pay. You'll have to figure it out yourself. How much money do they have ? How much more would your phone number get them ? How good a bargainer are you, and how good is the guy who is your contact with the company ? Expect to get ALOT of money if it is a phone order company with high profits and much competition. That would be the ideal situation. Jon. [Moderator's Note: The Dominos Pizza people are trying to grab up all the xxx-3030 and xxx-0030 combinations they can find around Chicago. Paying off with pizza coupons and some money, I understand. PT]