{"id":8229,"date":"2004-02-17T11:15:26","date_gmt":"2004-02-17T11:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=8229"},"modified":"2004-02-17T11:15:26","modified_gmt":"2004-02-17T11:15:26","slug":"how-much-would-you-pay-for-a-phone-number","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8229","title":{"rendered":"How much would you pay for a phone number?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember that Seinfeld episode when Elaine gets a 646 area code? Area code bigotry is alive and well in NYC. The price of a phone number in the 212 area code is, as of this writing, over $200kUS on <a target=_top href=\"http:\/\/cgi.ebay.com\/ws\/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&#038;item=3077991790&#038;category=1503\"target=new>eBay<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of course, that price is also helped along by the fact that anybody who heard a radio in the early eighties knows the rest of this particular phone number: 867-5309.<\/p>\n<p> But the 212 effect can&#8217;t be discounted. Yesterday, two more auctions went up, one for the 415 area code (SF), and the other for 910 (North Carolina), and while I can see a San Franciscan paying over $5k, I don&#8217;t think anybody in North Carolina&#8217;s going to be biting on that $50k opener.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apocalypse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}