Famous '80s Song Title/Phone Number Hits Auction
Thursday, February 05, 2009
Man auctions "Jenny's" 867-5309 on eBay
It's been over 25 years since Tommy Tutone's signature hit had the digits 867-5309 blaring out of radio's everywhere. Now a man who owns one version of the phone number is selling it. More from the New Jersey's NJ.com:
Bidders on Ebay appeared to be having a little fun with an auction for a Weehawken D.J.'s phone number -- (201) 867-5309 -- the same number made famous by Tommy Tutone's catchy 1982 hit song, "867-5309/Jenny."
Spencer Potter, 28, originally of Rye Brook, N.Y., got Jenny's number in the 201 area code when he and several roommates requested it in jest for their home phone. Five years and 50,000 phone calls later, Potter Monday put the number out to auction on Ebay.
And the joke hasn't gotten tired yet.
At about 1:30 p.m. Monday, when figures were still relatively low, one of the 58 bidders offered $8,675.30, a reference to the first six digits of the well-known number. Then at about 9 p.m., someone else appeared willing to pay as much as $186,753.09.
Several more people who later posted bids in the six-figure range had retracted their offers citing reasons like, "Attempted to contact buyer, no response."
As of 3 p.m. today, some offers were approaching half a million dollars with the top bidder offering $434,744.44.
A call to Ebay this afternoon asking about the legitimacy of the auction bids and whether the company has a policy for addressing erroneous bids, went unreturned.
It's been over 25 years since Tommy Tutone's signature hit had the digits 867-5309 blaring out of radio's everywhere. Now a man who owns one version of the phone number is selling it. More from the New Jersey's NJ.com:
Bidders on Ebay appeared to be having a little fun with an auction for a Weehawken D.J.'s phone number -- (201) 867-5309 -- the same number made famous by Tommy Tutone's catchy 1982 hit song, "867-5309/Jenny."
Spencer Potter, 28, originally of Rye Brook, N.Y., got Jenny's number in the 201 area code when he and several roommates requested it in jest for their home phone. Five years and 50,000 phone calls later, Potter Monday put the number out to auction on Ebay.
And the joke hasn't gotten tired yet.
At about 1:30 p.m. Monday, when figures were still relatively low, one of the 58 bidders offered $8,675.30, a reference to the first six digits of the well-known number. Then at about 9 p.m., someone else appeared willing to pay as much as $186,753.09.
Several more people who later posted bids in the six-figure range had retracted their offers citing reasons like, "Attempted to contact buyer, no response."
As of 3 p.m. today, some offers were approaching half a million dollars with the top bidder offering $434,744.44.
A call to Ebay this afternoon asking about the legitimacy of the auction bids and whether the company has a policy for addressing erroneous bids, went unreturned.
posted by Chris and Frank at 1:18 PM
1 Comments:
THAT brings back some memories at KCPK..I seem to remember playing that one a lot...
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