04/13/2004
A Cell phone number bid for $1 million in China
Post @ 04:16 in China's Affairs
I can't believe this, An online buyer has bid 9 million yuan (US$1.1 million) for a cell phone number on EachNet.com.
A deal for the number 135 8585 8585, which has a similar pronunciation in Chinese to "let me be rich be rich be rich be rich," was finally done after 70 bids since it was offered online on March 27. [link]Last year, Chinese airline bought a toll free number 8888 8888 for $280,000, and says bought the phone number not because of any superstitious belief. The "good Luck" number "8" is really popular in China; any numbers include "8" would more valuable than others, phone number, card number, even a Car license number. And also people extend some numbers based on single "8" to endue with luck words like: "168" (road to rich), "58" (be rich), "178" (rich together) and more, creativity is highly active on this. Actually I don't think it's a real deal, especially it's a online bid.
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