‘Lucky’ Chinese phone number is bought for US$300,000 at online auction

A “lucky” mobile phone number has sold for a whopping 2.25 million yuan (US$325,000) after hundreds of people in China vied online for the right to use the apparently auspicious string of digits.The number ends in five 8s, a sought-after combination in China because the word “eight” in Mandarin sounds similar to the word for “prosperity”.The number was among assets seized and ordered to be auctioned by a court in Beijing, and an online sale attracted more than 5,000 bids between Saturday and…

from South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3097600/lucky-chinese-phone-number-bought-us300000-online-auction