867-5309 for sale !

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Here Jenny!

[CaterpillarAssassin]

auction was removed.

what was it for?

[DoPeY5007]

for the NY # 867-5309

I think it was 212 area code

[donk]

Here's a good writeup on it ..

http://miva.jacksonsun.com/miva/cgi-bin ... 2185866581

eBay auction of 'eight-six-seven-five-three-oh-nieeine' on hold

By IAN DEMSKY
The Tennessean
Feb 18 2004

Ask not for whom the phone rings. It rings for you - Jenny.

The phone number popularized by 1982's one-hit wonder Tommy Tutone - Eight-six-seven-five-three-oh-nieeine - rings into a Murfreesboro used-car dealership in area code 615.

Tuning in to national attention for the auction of New York's 212 version of the number on eBay, the dealership put its number on the Internet auction block Monday.

However Tuesday afternoon, David Ludwig, general manger of Auto Outlet, said he got an e-mail from eBay notifying him that his "Jenny" auction had been canceled for being "inappropriate." The other phone numbers being also sold disappeared from the Web site.

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 bizarre convergence of '80s pop culture and offbeat Internet auctions made ABC's Good Morning America on Friday.

Before the auction was canceled, New York's "Jenny" was going for more than $200,000.

Ludwig said he was shooting for at least $10,000. Nonetheless, he said he was happy to keep the catchy number "once we get through all these prank calls."

How many people actually still call for Jenny more than 20 years after release of the song called 867-5309/Jenny?

"You wouldn't believe me if I told you," dealership owner Mike Blacksher said.

Less than one minute after having the number connected at his dealership in January, the phone rang.

It was for Jenny.

The dealership actually has sold several cars to "Jenny" callers, he said.

Blacksher requested the number from the phone company after calling and finding out that no one had it, he said.

"We get 100 or more calls every day," he said. "People call all the way from Miami. People just keep running through area codes. They ask for Jenny or just start singing the song."

The calls fill up the company's voice mail every night.

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."

Another Middle Tennessee "Jenny" opportunity could still be out there.

Her 931 area code number did not seem to be connected Tuesday.

Information from The Los Angeles Times-Washington Post News Service and from UPI was used this report.

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Originally posted by CaterpillarAssassin
auction was removed.

what was it for?

90K :

[donk]

Actually it got up to 200K before it got pulled

[TonyH]

200K for a phone number?

I have to question how someone stupid enough to pay that much for a phone number ever had the intelligence to acquire the money in the first place.

[b-man1]

I have to question how someone stupid enough to pay that much for a phone number ever had the intelligence to acquire the money in the first place.

executives and self-important management like to waste company money on stuff like this. this would be extreme...but i see more money wasted every day than you can ever imagine on stuff that is unneeded.

[DoPeY5007]

Originally posted by b-man1
executives and self-important management like to waste company money on stuff like this. this would be extreme...but i see more money wasted every day than you can ever imagine on stuff that is unneeded.

they can waste $ on my eBay items!