Trying to figure all that out sent me down quite a rabbit hole. But working with NumberBarn, I know now of course, that you can<\/em> sell your number, for as little as a few bucks to as much as thousands of dollars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To explore this world, you just have to know a couple of key things first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n One of the first things I learned in that rabbit hole was that telephone companies use a lot of different terms than regular people do, even when they\u2019re talking about the same thing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n So let\u2019s start by defining some pivotal stuff around the concept of moving a number.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There is one general term used when discussing moving<\/em> a number: porting<\/a>.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n Porting <\/strong>– The act of moving your phone number to another person or company. (This is technically what you are doing when you \u201csell\u201d your number \u2014 more on \u201clicensing\u201d later.)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n If you aren\u2019t literally handing your phone over to another person and telling them to pay your bill, what you\u2019re doing is taking an active, paid-for number currently being serviced by a company or online service, and transferring it to a different<\/em> company to service it instead. <\/p>\n\n\n\n People typically port phone numbers when they want to keep their number after switching providers, but that\u2019s not the only reason, as we\u2019ll see. (They may even \u201cpark\u201d their number they aren\u2019t using, but that\u2019s another thing.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yes, of course! If you\u2019re on the same plan or even using the same provider, companies like Verizon and T-Mobile generally have fairly simple, step-by-step procedures for doing a service transfer that\u2019s located somewhere on their respective apps and websites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But that isn\u2019t the same thing as selling<\/em> a number. (I mean, feel free to personally invoice your daughter, if you\u2019d like.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now that you know that phone companies and services generally allow you to \u201cport\u201d a number, I\u2019m thrilled to tell you there are places online that allow you to sell your number to anyone in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n Because believe it or not, there are many desirable numbers that people may wish they had for a wide variety of reasons, so therefore it shouldn\u2019t have shocked me that there are online marketplaces (think: eBay) for people to browse and purchase all kinds of telephone numbers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n NumberBarn.com<\/a> is definitely the biggest database for phone numbers you can list or buy (if we say so ourselves), but there are a few others, like Ring Boost. On sites like these, generally you get to look for numbers available by area code, by what they spell on the keypad, and of course, how much people are asking for them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s surprisingly simple, actually.<\/p>\n\n\n You \u201cport\u201d your number to NumberBarn or whichever service you are using, and they sell the number for you. (Congrats, you\u2019re officially a \u201cnumber broker!\u201d)<\/p>\n\n\n\n All you need is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n The application asks stuff like how much you want to charge for it, whether you want to sell or license, and if you want to have options on, like counter-offers. Once someone buys your phone number, NumberBarn assesses a fee, after which you can cash out your earnings directly into whatever bank account you set up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That\u2019s kind of up to you. Luckily, NumberBarn Support will talk you through figuring that out if you have no idea where to start. <\/p>\n\n\n\n However, there are two basic factors that determine how valuable a number is<\/strong>: <\/p>\n\n\n\n You\u2019re more likely to Google \u201chow do I sell my number?\u201d if you own some crazy repeating number like \u201c777-7777,\u201d so the first one should make sense. However, what a lot of people may not realize is that the last 4-7 digits of their regular ol\u2019 number might spell something interesting! <\/p>\n\n\n\n NumberBarn’s new phone number value calculator<\/a> will quote you an instant price range you might be able to sell your mobile phone number for. <\/p>\n\n\n\n On top of that, our phone number search tool<\/a> lets you search for words available and their current asking prices, which can get you started on what sort of prices you can get for your number. (NumberBarn recently sold an all-repeating number for hundreds of thousands of dollars to a law firm!) Remember that every unique area code<\/a> is ripe for the same letter combinations, so what numbers are available or assigned per region can vary drastically,<\/em> location to location. <\/p>\n\n\n\n If you ultimately don\u2019t know what to charge, you can leave your number up and allow other people to submit offers to you.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Note: <\/strong>Keep in mind that the \u201ccool word\u201d approach is dampened by any phone number that has \u201c0\u201d or \u201c1\u201d in it, since those two numbers aren\u2019t ascribed any letters on the keypad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sometimes people don\u2019t want to let go of the number they fortuitously have, so you can also opt to license anumber through NumberBarn instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This way, a person licensing a number retains ownership of that number, while someone else pays a recurring fee to use it for however long they negotiate. (For example, maybe they only need it for a month-long marketing campaign, or perhaps they can only afford a huge number like \u201c555-CARS\u201d for a year.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Note: <\/strong>If you have an active toll-free number such as a \u201c1-800\u201d number, in most cases, these can only be licensed and not sold, per FCC regulations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That\u2019s it! Number broker sites take care of the billing, invoicing, money transferring, and all that legal junk, so you don\u2019t have to do anything other than set up your account and list your number. <\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s pretty wild to learn how much a phone number can sell for. You don\u2019t have to go too far down that rabbit hole like I did, but you might just gain a new hobby of looking up funny number combinations for sale. (Listen, don\u2019t judge until you try it yourself<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\nHow To Sell A Phone Number<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Can I move my phone digits to somewhere outside my current plan?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Can I give my phone number to someone else who\u2019s on my own phone plan?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Okay, <\/strong>where<\/em><\/strong> do I sell my phone number to someone outside my plan?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Whoa, how do I know how much to charge for my number?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n
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What does \u2018licensing\u2019 a number mean?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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