Special Number Auction From Ufone
Quite interesting – some will find it hilarious. Looking to raise your social standing and got money to spend? Ufone is giving these so-called ”Golden Numbers” through online bidding as you can see from the screen snapshot.
This is a worldwide fact that certain phone numbers (or number plates!) carry prestige and social status and are worth substantial money. As you may have read in my previous posts, this is something which is part of our social fibre. Ufone is using an interesting approach to make money from this craze. By the way there are some comments on this blog where readers want to know how they can get a premium number .. so here you go!
Thanks to Tee Emm for bringing this to my attention. Tee Emm provides some insights:
Numbers that contain a repeated pair within their entirety are called silver number. Hence, by this mob definition, this number would be considered a silver number: 03xx 384 7788. Next comes the golden number – four or more similar numbers. Generally, the companies would make a geniune effort to provide their post paid customers with a silver or a golden number either free or at a cost.
With certain of its marketing practices being somewhat ’slack’, when Warid launched, their telemarketers used to call every 0300 post paid number telling them that their ‘Warid’ number is already reserved and they just need to call from the mobilink number to get it activated in their name. Hence, they blocked the entire series from the general sales.
Here’s more from Ufone site about the bidding process.
You are required to enter the serial number and 12-digit secret PIN from an unused Rs.100 Ufone scratch card every time you want to submit a new bid.
Your bid will only be accepted if it is at least Rs.5000 more than the current highest bid of your desired number. Bid amount should be in multiples of Rs.5000. Bids will only be accepted between 10:00am and 10:00pm every day.
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