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"867-5309" Phone Number Now Selling on eBay

by Dan Reilly on February 2, 2009 at 06:29 PM



Have you ever wanted to own an intangible piece of rock memorabilia? Well, you have until February 9th to bid on the area code 201 version of the famous Tommy Tutone phone number. And it'll only cost you a few thousand bucks!

Yes, you can have the privilege of getting random phone calls from random pranksters who listen to the '80s song about a guy who finds a girl's number on a bathroom wall. Spencer Potter, a 28-year-old DJ, is selling off his business with the well-known number after having it for the past five years. He says he gets about 40 calls a day and once dated a woman who gave it out as a fake number to guys at bars. (It's unclear whether or not her name is Jenny).

Since people don't own phone numbers, you can't actually sell them, but Potter's getting away with it with the inclusion of his New York area business, A Blast Entertainment. Vonage, which Potter used to register the digits, agreed to the sale. Potter hopes it gets him over $40,000 but, as of now, he's stuck at $7,500. [From: CNN]

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