SHANGHAI: An online buyer has paid 9mil yuan (RM4.18mil) for a cellphone number on a Chinese auction site, state press reported yesterday.
A deal for the number 135 8585 8585, which has a similar pronunciation in Chinese to “let me be rich, be rich, be rich, be rich,” was completed this week after an exchange of some 70 bids, the Shanghai Daily reported.
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