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Doha • Qtel will be holding an auction on Monday at the Diplomatic Club for the vanity cellphone number ‘6666666’. Tickets to participate in the auction have been priced at QR3,000 and the proceeds will be donated to the Zakat Fund. Bidding for the number will start at QR1 million and multiples of QR100,000 thereafter.
In a keenly contested auction, the vanity phone number 6666666 was yesterday sold for QR 10mn, setting a new record for an easy-to-remember telephone number in Qatar. The highest bidder was a Qatari who preferred to stay anonymous.
Well, I guess we can call 6666666 to find out who the anonymous Qatari really is. That is, of course, if we can remember the number!
Do you think he'll ever get "wrong number" callers?
Ouch!!! Just one more example of clay being at a place where some grey matter should have been......As for me.. well I dream of a cell phone Free World....
Yeah I could think up a million uses for these QR 10mn, and honestly, none of them involves a phone #! :p
Jaguu,
Clay or grey matter - it's just too much money, that's all. Cell phone free world? Oh no, no way. I can't be happy in a world like that!
Ahmed,
Yes I could never really understand why people in the Middle East think it's ok to call each other in the middle of the night! I wouldn't call anyone after 9pm, unless it's an emergency.
Anon,
At least you found it in the end :^)
Chick,
Charity or no charity, the population still has too much money. Well, now the charity does, too.
He means sendin money to the palestinian government "Hamas". U know what Jack? you are right for once, I personally believe that palestine should be wiped off the map as a country for being stupid, but unfortunately I don't beleive that's gonna do any of us any good. Though still that doesn't give the right to the Israelis to do what they are doing to the palestinians, besides that...If the US wanted peace in the ME they could have acheived it, but they don't and they are having a jolly good time with it. Without the bloodshed there would be no need for an international police state. How did this turn into a political discussion anyways?? For the love of whatever it is that you worship, would you lay off???
Can't leave you people on your own for a day!! How in the world did my post inspire a political discussion, again? You know, I came to the conclusion that it is not the topic, it's the people :D
I love you guys. It's always a delight to open my computer in the morning!
Well at least the money will go towards building a hospital.
To be honest, as stupied as I think it is to pay this much money for a phone number I can understand the logic behind it.
I mean, 6666666 is a novelty number. People pay the same amount of money or more for a work of art, for a collection of fine wines, for jewelary and so on. Its all relative. Some people happen to be great fans of art others are great fans of themselve, thus buying items like specail number to distinguish themselves from others.
10mn!!!! What a fuckin waste.