Perhaps you are getting away with it, like you said because you are operating in a niche market, so no one is watching you. But from your writings, it definantly sounds like YOU are the one that is doing something illegal.

You have NO service to offer except registration of a ‘vanity’ number for me for a fee of $49.99. Without paying that fee (or a higher one) then you will not allow me to obtain a toll free number. Is that correct?

Apparently you have become your own ‘RESPORG’ for the sole purpose of selling vanity phone numbers.

I’m glad you wrote this comment. I started to respond to it, but there was just too much to say about your comments here so I made a whole new post right from your comment here. Take a look at
http://www.tollfreenumbers.com/blogs/are-we-skirting-the-law-or-selling-numbers.html

Please note that I didn’t change or alter your comments in any way. I just showed how they are clearly and completely wrong in so many ways. I simply destroyed them with clear logic and showed them to be utterly rediculous. It’s not personal, it’s just that you are making serious false allegations that deserve to be defended, not require a strong response.

They also posted negative feedback about our new video here too.

I’ll leave it up because I’ve already used that as a jumping off point for the other post. But I wanted to mention that because it does explain his or her attitude a little and show how shallow her comments are.

Unfortnately there is no central site or place to go to sell numbers. Several people list them on ebay, but how many they actally sell is a different thing, because most have very little traffic let alone any bids.

If you’re going to list them on ebay which is probably the easiest way, you have to do some type of direct promotion too because I don’t think you can rely on the amount of people that happen to wander through that are looking for that particular number. Try doing some classified advertising in the back of an industry trade publication that targets your audience. Or do some PR and get an article or mention of it in something. Go to a convention for the industry your number fits for and hand out business cards with it on it.

Some people in the vanity number business make websites, which can be helpful if you’re good at building websites. The more collateral material you make the better, because in many ways it’s only worth what you make it appear to be worth. A nice logo and a domain name definitely make it worth more, but don’t do all of this for a mediocre name.

Some of this ties in with an article I’m working on about how to maximize the value of a number, which is also what you’re trying to do when you want to sell it.