Why? (aka QR10 million for a mobile phone number)
I was reading about an auction announcement in a news paper. The auction was for SIM card with a special number (6666666). The bidding openening price strated at 1,000,000 Riyals and ended at 10,000,000 Riyals!!
I don't know, but how many straving people could eat with 10 Million riyals?? What could this ammount do for a charity??
I remember someone told me that a car plate with special serial was sold for 3 million Riyals.
What a bloody waste ...
so they say. Whether it is for charity or not it is just a fact that this kind of thing is auctioned for that amount of money.
6666666 will only look good on me ...
Beast666
Well, you could give charity and ask charity society not to announce your name.
Bid for the cause? Why not just give money to charity, and stay out of the spotlight? Isn't it taught in Islam to give charity with your right hand in such a way that even your left doesn't know? So - I apologise, but I don't buy this "commended for the act" thing. The guy (and we know who he is) wanted the number for his own reasons, whatever they are.
Well, if you think that the bidder bought that number just because he wanted to put some money for charity then sorry to say I don't agree with. The second thing, how much you think Q-TEl will add to its pocket from this ammount??
VOI LA :)
Here's the article on the auction in the Peninsula:
http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display_news.asp?section=local_news&month=may2006&file=local_news2006052351121.xml
or just do a search "q-tel auction" in the local news section.
Key Quotes:
The amount will be utilised by Qtel to establish a health project in collaboration with Hamad Medical Corporation,
AND
Qtel holds regular such auctions for ETR mobile numbers and funds collected are donated to various local charities. “The successful bidder did not want to disclose his name or nationality,� Waleed, said.
Believe me I am no fan of Q-tel, but in this situation both the company and the bidder deserved to be commended rather than condenmed.
Honestly, who is going to use a phone number that the whole country already knows? Obviously the bid was for the cause and not the number.
It seems that the owner of The Group (Majmouah), Hamad Al Ma'adadi like always the unique numbers, even his company The Group has the (4444444) number :)
Ayman
You know qatari you realy make me loughing when you say that he didnt get free mobile with this sim card ...
i say we bulk text the number from the net telling them what a waste it is :-p
I would hate to have a number like that ... first think of the telephone spam .. imagine how many would cal this guy .. he wouldnt use it .. and its not a good number to dial once on the fourth or fith six you forget how much you put ... oblviously like everytrhing else its just for status
and qtel is such a ripoff .. they have a net profit margin of around 47%, i.e. for every 2 riyals one is clear profit, and that is depsite all the wastage and inneficency.
This is so crazy and unfair...And they didn't announce before that it'll be for that hospital..SoOoOo does it count ?The man paid for the card ,apparently! ..I just find it too difficult to believe that Q-tel won't get any of the money! For the God sake ! see how much they paid for the publicity ..!
I personally think that the whole charity thing was done only for the public eye...
Q-hell!!
It just kills me to know that all that money went to a damn sim card...Sooo shallow sooo stupis soooooooooooooooo criminal!!! :-(
Yes qatarcat, you are right. Apparently there were only about 8 bidders in the auction (you had to pay 3000 to get in). In the end it was down to the guy who bought it and the son of the toyota dealer (abdul ghanni i think). isnt a free market economy wonderful :)
Respect
GIASI
Rumours have it that the owner of The Group (Majmouah), Hamad Al Ma'adadi, bought the number. That would expalin it... :p
I still think we could just dial 6666666 and ask :)
Very well ...
MJ, I don't know... I suppose at least half of that will never see anything charitable...
Yes Qatarcat, I do know that this auction will be for charity. But how much of this ammount will be put into QTEL's account eh? :)
A pound to a pinch of **** that it was an Al-Thani
Yup the money went to Zakat Fund.
read the article on www.gulf-times.com this morning
Gulf Times
the money was for charity and is going towards the building of a new hospital in a remote area of Qatar
And to think he didn't even get a free phone with the number!