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Phreakin k3wl!
by IconoclasT at 7:35 pm EST, Mar 4, 2004

ATLANTA, Georgia (AP) -- Old pay phones are selling like they're going out of style.

Collectors have made an online rush to buy BellSouth's boxy old pay phones that have been refurbished for home use, after the Atlanta-based company decided to pull out of a coin-operated phone business that had withered in the wireless age.

"It's a novelty. You just don't usually see pay phones in people's homes," said Hugh Bowen, a retired Atlanta police officer who bought one of the 30-pound phones. "I thought it was so neat and I always wanted one. When I saw this opportunity I jumped on it."

About 500 orders for the $135 phones were filled in the two months they've been for sale, and now there's a waiting list of about 300 more people.


 
RE: Phreakin k3wl!
by Decius at 9:38 pm EST, Mar 4, 2004

IconoclasT wrote:
] About 500 orders for the $135 phones were filled in the two
] months they've been for sale, and now there's a waiting list
] of about 300 more people.

I ordered one in December and it still hasn't arrived.


 
RE: Preakin k3wl!
by w1ld at 12:15 am EST, Mar 5, 2004

IconoclasT wrote:
] ATLANTA, Georgia (AP) -- Old pay phones are selling
] like they're going out of style.
]
] Collectors have made an online rush to buy BellSouth's boxy
] old pay phones that have been refurbished for home use, after
] the Atlanta-based company decided to pull out of a
] coin-operated phone business that had withered in the wireless
] age.
]
] "It's a novelty. You just don't usually see pay phones in
] people's homes," said Hugh Bowen, a retired Atlanta police
] officer who bought one of the 30-pound phones. "I thought it
] was so neat and I always wanted one. When I saw this
] opportunity I jumped on it."
]
] About 500 orders for the $135 phones were filled in the two
] months they've been for sale, and now there's a waiting list
] of about 300 more people.

Yea baby!!@#


 
 
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