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

[ThatJadeFawn]

Long story short, I’ve had my current number for years and there’s a bit of emotional baggage attached to it now due to family boundary issues / people having access to it who I don’t really want having access anymore (posted about the situation a few days ago).

I’d already been considering changing it, but every replacement number EE offered me felt worse than my current one, so I kept saying no.

Today they offered me a “gold/VIP” number with triple 7s in it that I genuinely really like and would actually prefer to my current number. Problem is, it costs £102.

I know logically it’s “just a phone number” but equally people keep numbers for years and years, and if I’m going to go through the faff of changing it, I almost feel like I’d rather do it properly and actually like the new number.

Part of me thinks “life’s short, just get the number you want.”

Another part thinks “£102 for digits is objectively insane.”

AIBU?

DH, DC3, DC4 and me have all changed network.
I kept my old number but had a temporary number for a couple of days and the others have new numbers.
All the numbers have triple digits and are easy to remember. For free.

If you have £100 to send on this and it won’t leave you short for bills and food then do it. If it makes you happy who cares.

Personally I think it is a lot to spend on a phone number but I am capable of frittering that on something equally pointless so who am I to judge?

I have a really “nice” number and I can’t tell you how often people say “ooh that’s a great number” when I read it to them for a form or whatever.

Weirdly I have come to take pride in my lovely number and enjoy the compliments.

What in holy hell is a “nice” string of random numbers and what sort of muppets do you associate with that they all rush to admire it?
Mind boggling.

What a weird thing to be bothered about your mobile number, I think I only know my own, no one knows anyone’s numbers anymore

That makes you a V.V.I.P⭐

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.

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!

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 😁

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

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?

Just wondering, can you not just block their numbers?

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.

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

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

How much you offering

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 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.

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 know 2 mobile phone numbers including my own.

And I have over 5600 contacts in my phone 🤣

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.

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!!

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

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.