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axxxr
Joined: Mar 21, 2003
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A Beijing man has paid the equivalent of $257,400 Cdn for the ultimate in lucky cell phone numbers -133-3333-3333.
The phone number was sold this week at an auction in the Chinese capital, newspapers reported Saturday.
Chinese tradition considers three a lucky number and groups of threes even luckier. Though the number eight is the luckiest, all Chinese cell phone numbers begin with 13, making it impossible to make a number with all eights.
The reports by the Beijing Times and Beijing Morning Post didn't identify the buyer. Phone calls to the number on Saturday weren't answered.
Hotels, restaurants and other businesses in China regularly try to obtain phone numbers with groups of 8's. Those that can't wind up settling for groups of other numbers.
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Del
Joined: Jan 11, 2003
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I wouldn't call it lucky paying that for it 
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@axxxr - Yes! I've seen this in the dailies a couple of days back . . . As for the Chinese the number - 8 still brings the BEST of luck at all times, though I guess it was not available, that's why he settled for the #3s . . . other issues like this is a big hit in China, like in car plates - number combination! |
k700nut
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I paid £9.99 for my o2 sim.the final six digits are 111666.aren't i the lucky one?:-D
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@k700nut - What an OMEN ! We have almost the same story here in Manila, where a priest applied for a new license for his newly bought car, and the Land Transportation Office gave him with a "666" number combination ! The mad priest wants to sue the said office in return ! |
k700nut
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@jn...a priest of all people hey?that's bound to welcome bad spirits mate.lol.;-)
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knight4led
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then I have the luckiest number of all according to them, mine is all threes and eights |
egev
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coolapostle
Joined: Oct 15, 2004
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Having a number with 666 will get you u in a lot of trouble in Nigeria! Some ppl will not answer ur call when they see such a number.
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k4m!k4ze
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yipee, my number has got a 3 as well as 2 8's So i'm lucky. Maybe i'll win a P910 in a lucky draw !
Crazy guy ! Imagine the number of phones you coulda bought with that !
btw its $215,000  according to CNN -
http://cnn.aimtoday.cnn.com/n[....]41.htm&photoid=20041104NYK905D
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absinthebri
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Kllr, can't you tell the difference between US and Canadian dollars? My land line has '888' in it!
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k4m!k4ze
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On 2004-11-09 19:23:20, absinthebri wrote:
Kllr, can't you tell the difference between US and Canadian dollars?
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Oh ok i didnt know hehe 
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coolapostle
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Its a culture thing. What is 'lucky' to u may mean nothing -or even bad luck- to me. U can have all 333s or 888s but in my country, no luck is coming ur way. U just have a number that is easy to memorise :-) ... Which is not so bad! :-D
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50Cent
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but now all the population of china knows his number. Imagine all the bitter ppl who wanted that phone number, hes gonna get quite a few nusiance calls IMO
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Lynx69
Joined: Feb 22, 2004
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Hes going to get a lot of bad calls because:
You know when youve tdrunk too much...stumble inside your house but remember you forgot something somewhere and want to call you mate to ask?
You pick the phone up and then you freeze and forget the num, your finger freezes on the number 3 after pressing 1 and you manage to unfreeze your finger for a split second while you accidently press call
Happens all the time 
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