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867-5309 in All US and Canadian Area Codes

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Re: 867-5309 in All US and Canadian Area Codes

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post #18

LTP: if you're at a grocery store and don't have membership account, use the local area code and this number. It hasn't failed me in the 14 states I've tried it.

You want my ZIP code to market to me? 90210

If all they ask for is a zip code, I usually give an accurate one. If it's a store I visit often, I'd appreciate a closer location.

Re: 867-5309 in All US and Canadian Area Codes

#42

What happens when you call 867-5309 in all the US and Canadian area codes? Do you reach Jenny or something else? Check this list out!

Slide 1 of 46 [Start >] I can smell the spamvertisement revenue!

Sadly some of those numbers are just that now.

Re: 867-5309 in All US and Canadian Area Codes

#43
post #4

In the late nineties, if you dialed this in my zip code, you would have gotten a hold of my friend's grandmother. No, her name was not jenny.

This just triggered a crazy possibility in my mind. What if Stacy's Mom's name is Jenny? She's had guys longing for her for ~40 years.

Re: 867-5309 in All US and Canadian Area Codes

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Having not even heard of them before seeing this page, I think it's interesting that "Totally 80s Pizza" both has a phone number supporting their marketing, while simultaneously using an 867-5309 number for a purpose that has something to do with the song.

Re: 867-5309 in All US and Canadian Area Codes

#45
post #14

I like that they mentioned that they did this for cheap, but did not seem to care that they were calling ~1000 random people. And they plan to do this regularly.

If you want to get mad about people spamming this phone number with fake calls, you're about 40 years too late. The numbers are already spammed to hell; there's hardly any harm in one more call every 6 months to document the phenomenon.

I was never mad. I read the article as basically "I called a thousand random people. Don't worry, it didn't inconvenience me to do so." A statement I find silly.

Re: 867-5309 in All US and Canadian Area Codes

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Fun fact: you can sign up for or just use “rewards” at various stores with this number without a problem. I put it in at Walgreens one time because I was tired and didn’t want to answer questions. Then I tried it a few other places, and celebrated my new “relationship” with Jenny on FB.

My next girlfriend wasn’t pleased to find this after we started getting serious, but that just gave me bonus cackles. She wasn’t too young to remember the song, but definitely didn’t make the connection.

Re: 867-5309 in All US and Canadian Area Codes

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post #18

LTP: if you're at a grocery store and don't have membership account, use the local area code and this number. It hasn't failed me in the 14 states I've tried it.

would that work for free gas too for kroger?

Probably not.

I used it at the local Walgreens to get some kind of discount and there was $5 on the account but I needed to know the zip code used by the first person to claim it.

Re: 867-5309 in All US and Canadian Area Codes

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The article is wrong for Area Code 757: Danny's Glass (https://www.dannysglass.com/) has had 867-5309 for years. Since the 757 area has not had to dial the Area Code for local calls until the last few weeks, their radio commercials have "sung"the number. I don't know what they'll do now.
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