How much is my 202 phone number worth? How can I sell it?

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Anonymous wrote:Apparently the various variations of 202 are running out and are desirable to own.

Hmm. Well, give us an update when you've managed to sell your number. Should be a nice hobby for you. Keeps you occupied and out of harm's way.

70-75 degrees is the forecast high temperature today where I am at.

I have a swimming pool only a few feet away from my back door.

What about you?

70-75 is too cold to swim.

But right now you are surrounded by frozen snow and ice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If Facebook yard sale accounts have taught me anything, it's that everything is desirable to someone else.

A guy bought a new TV at Costco and posted the empty tv box with styrofoam for sale for $50. The first few comments were people mocking him and then the next several were people vying for it. He sold it. HE SOLD AN EMPTY BOX!

I've also seen people sell empty iPhone/iPad/Apple watch boxes on there for $10-30 a pop.

If someone has the exact same model TV, the box comes in real handy if they are moving/relocating across the country.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Apparently the various variations of 202 are running out and are desirable to own.

Hmm. Well, give us an update when you've managed to sell your number. Should be a nice hobby for you. Keeps you occupied and out of harm's way.

70-75 degrees is the forecast high temperature today where I am at.

I have a swimming pool only a few feet away from my back door.

What about you?

70-75 is too cold to swim.

But right now you are surrounded by frozen snow and ice.

Living such a grand life that you’re trying to sell something worthless. Are you at a motel 6 or something?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Apparently the various variations of 202 are running out and are desirable to own.

Hmm. Well, give us an update when you've managed to sell your number. Should be a nice hobby for you. Keeps you occupied and out of harm's way.

70-75 degrees is the forecast high temperature today where I am at.

I have a swimming pool only a few feet away from my back door.

What about you?

70-75 is too cold to swim.

But right now you are surrounded by frozen snow and ice.

Living such a grand life that you’re trying to sell something worthless. Are you at a motel 6 or something?

Danny Boy Snyder sold tickets for obstructed seats for years and years and guess what?

PEOPLE PAID FOR THEM!

Cant get more worthless than that.

Enjoy your next 7 days of high temperatures in the 40s.

The rest of the week the high temperatures down here will be in the 80s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I vaguely remember that when NYC got a new area code that people wanted the 212 instead of 917 (I think that is the right AC) because the 212 was the original AC of NYC and it seemed to be a status symbol of some kind.

212 was assigned because NYC was the biggest US city at the time, and it takes teh shortest time to dial on a rotary phone. Area codes can't start with a 1, and it used to be that the second digit could be only 0 or 1.

LA got 213, Chicago got 312, Detroit got 313, Pittsburgh got 412, and so on.. Back in 1947 when they setup area codes.

[Anonymous]

There is a web site called "Number Barn" that does this sort of thing, although they seem to be more about numbers that spell something or are easily remembered. I am not sure how it works. I do know that there is a history of telephone companies fighting the sale of phone numbers on the basis that the phone company and not the end user actually owns the number.

Legality aside, I wouldn't expect that a random 202 number would be worth much. One that spells 202-LAWYER or something might be quite valuable.

[Anonymous]

212 was assigned because NYC was the biggest US city at the time, and it takes teh shortest time to dial on a rotary phone. Area codes can't start with a 1, and it used to be that the second digit could be only 0 or 1.

LA got 213, Chicago got 312, Detroit got 313, Pittsburgh got 412, and so on.. Back in 1947 when they setup area codes.

This is all correct. That is why Alaska has 907 and NYC has 212.

[Anonymous]

I'll open the bidding with 2000 Iraqi dinars.

[Anonymous]

You probably could, there are certainly so many midwestern transplants here absolutely desperate to lie and claim to be from here. Think of how many people that grew up with Oregon or Mississippi or Minnesota who will outrightly just claim to be "from" DC when asked, despite moving here when they were 25.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is a web site called "Number Barn" that does this sort of thing, although they seem to be more about numbers that spell something or are easily remembered. I am not sure how it works. I do know that there is a history of telephone companies fighting the sale of phone numbers on the basis that the phone company and not the end user actually owns the number.

Legality aside, I wouldn't expect that a random 202 number would be worth much. One that spells 202-LAWYER or something might be quite valuable.

There were some being sold on Ebay as recently as last year.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What's valuable about a 202 number? Please enlighten us, OP.

Is it like in 1997 when I got a 917 number instead of 212?

I think there was a Seinfeld episode about that...

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Anonymous wrote:Apparently the various variations of 202 are running out and are desirable to own.

Hmm. Well, give us an update when you've managed to sell your number. Should be a nice hobby for you. Keeps you occupied and out of harm's way.

70-75 degrees is the forecast high temperature today where I am at.

I have a swimming pool only a few feet away from my back door.

What about you?

70-75 is too cold to swim.

But right now you are surrounded by frozen snow and ice.

Living such a grand life that you’re trying to sell something worthless. Are you at a motel 6 or something?

Danny Boy Snyder sold tickets for obstructed seats for years and years and guess what?

PEOPLE PAID FOR THEM!

Cant get more worthless than that.

Enjoy your next 7 days of high temperatures in the 40s.

The rest of the week the high temperatures down here will be in the 80s.

Enjoy the motel. I prefer these temps to the 80s. Too hot for me.

[Anonymous]

Imagine being so old that you think anyone looks at anyone's phone number.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Imagine being so old that you think anyone looks at anyone's phone number.

The people who were buying were younger people.

[Anonymous]

I have a 202 number that I’m never giving up. But I’m also old enough to remember when you had to buy a Gmail email address!!!!!