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.

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RE: Preakin k3wl!