To think paying £102 to change to a “better” mobile number isn’t completely ridiculous?

Meh. £100 is the cost of a massage, a nice meal out, a good haircut, a new dress. If you can afford it and it’ll make you feel better for longer than any of those options then why not.

I had no idea that this was a thing! I have had the same phone number for 25+ years and people often comment on how memorable it is when I have to give it out. It has only has four different digits in it and one of them appears 5x. I've just looked at similar number on a website that are selling for £1000+!

Much the same here - I got my phone number and email address in about 1997. The phone number is a nice pattern. I asked to choose it when. I was buying my first phone and my email address is exactly like yours. I am CONSTANTLY getting emails for other Dizzys. Do you get that? I have had boarding passes, appointments to have my car serviced in Texas, LA water bills etc.

Are mobile phone numbers becoming like VRNs? What is the most expensive number? 07777777777? I might ring it to see who answers.

Its just a phone number.
Yes it seems a ridiculous waste of money.

Well, this seems mad. I have had the same number since my first phone in the early 90s I think. I dont know anyone's number. Just save it in my contacts.

Sometime you just have to treat yourself and it doesn’t need to be justified. Enjoy your number 💯

Same as any “wants” vs “need” spend. Do you want it? Do you have the money for it without impacting your “need” budget areas? If answer to both is yes then go for it!!

I definitely don't know 5,600 people, or businesses, well enough to keep their numbers, not now, and not even 40 years ago when I worked and managed a successful show band in my spare time. Nobody needs 5,600 contacts.

And I have over 5600 contacts in my phone 🤣

I know 2 mobile phone numbers including my own.

Aren't these "VIP" numbers really for businesses? Because as PP have said, nobody has to remember anyone's phone number any more. I don't even know my partner's.

That's what I would have thought. There's an attorney in my area whose number is all 4's. I have never needed to call him so his number is not in my phone but if I did need to call for some reason I remember that number. Any person that I call on a regular basis I just put their number in my phone and then I don't ever look at it again.

I don't understand what makes some numbers worse, though.

I got all my kids good numbers when they first got phones. It was such a good idea. They have all had their numbers for over a decade and still occasionally comment on how much they like them.

Mine has 69 in it three times, must have had it 25-30 years….wonder how much I’d get for that?
Up to you what you spend your money on, I’d personally just have any number, I can’t see how any other number can be better or worse than another, as long as it stops the intended from contacting you, use the £100 to help you get over the emotional baggage.
Maybe put it towards a therapy session?
Those phone people must piss themselves laughing.

I have a phone number that has 5 0's in, all in a row.

How much you offering

If it will make you happy and you can afford it. Go for it

I’d think about what else you might use that money for - if the number would please you every time you used it for several years then that might be better value than your other options.

Just wondering, can you not just block their numbers?

I bought my phone a few years ago in a shop and with it the card. The sales assistant let me look through the pile of sim cards and choose which number I preferred. I chose the one with a few repetitive numbers in it as it was easier to remember. Have you tried buying a sim card in a shop instead of online?

That's reminded me that I have friend who has a number with repeated digits that flows nicely when you say it out loud, I probably said that's a nice number to her when she first told me

Some people are numbers people, some aren't, you must be someone who isnt but one isn't better than the other

Do you not get out much?

It might not be something you'd want to do but you must be able to comprehend that someone might put a value on for example having their birthday as their phone number

There's way more absurdity going on in the world today 😁

I have met a bloke called Gary Mail with the numberplate GMAIL - Google offered him £££££ for it, but he's already a millionaire and turned them down!

We picked quite a nice number for an old company - 234 2345. Tripped off the tongue.

My son has a unique double-barrelled surname, so he still gets his first pick name, but I have claimed it on Gmail for him!

Yes, that's what I was referring to, too.

I wasn't under the impression that you had actually changed your number multiple times. Rejecting ONE offer because it "feels worse" than your current number is, in itself, bizarre and incomprehensible to normal most people, rejecting "every" i.e. more than one, "replacement number EE offered" is even weirder.

I didn't need to jump to conclusions, what you're actually doing is odd enough without exaggerating.

That makes you a V.V.I.P⭐