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Buying Phone Numbers on ebay to port
« on: December 07, 2018, 03:10:23 PM »
Why would someone buy phone numbers to have portrd to another carrier instead of just getting a new number themself direct from carrier??

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Re: Buying Phone Numbers on ebay to port
« Reply #1 on: December 07, 2018, 03:22:51 PM »
When trying to take advantage of certain promotions, one of the requirements can be to port in your existing number, which has to have been active for X amount of time.

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Re: Buying Phone Numbers on ebay to port
« Reply #2 on: December 07, 2018, 04:09:42 PM »
Ahh ok. Thats thebonly thing i could think of so far.  Wasnt sure if anything else.  Thanks

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Re: Buying Phone Numbers on ebay to port
« Reply #3 on: December 11, 2018, 10:29:22 PM »
Some carriers will not give you specific area-codes, or if you are looking for something particularly nice (Vanity Numbers.)

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Re: Buying Phone Numbers on ebay to port
« Reply #4 on: December 12, 2018, 01:01:42 AM »
Why would someone buy phone numbers to have portrd to another carrier instead of just getting a new number themself direct from carrier??
The Google Fi deal required a number that was open since like mid August
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Re: Buying Phone Numbers on ebay to port
« Reply #5 on: December 12, 2018, 12:28:33 PM »
Ahh areq codes. Thats good one.  How are these guys buying up all these numbers so cheap to resell for jist a few bucks??

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Re: Buying Phone Numbers on ebay to port
« Reply #6 on: December 12, 2018, 12:33:27 PM »
Ahh areq codes. Thats good one.  How are these guys buying up all these numbers so cheap to resell for jist a few bucks??
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Re: Buying Phone Numbers on ebay to port
« Reply #7 on: December 14, 2018, 11:19:40 PM »
Yes