In The Big Inning...

I was just thinking (after hearing a brief discussion about this on the radio) that if I were to own a business that had a toll-free number, I would really want it to be a 1-800 number. In order of prestige, I think that 1-800 is at the top, and then 1-888. If you have a 1-877 number, that's just disgraceful. I wonder how many people even know it's toll-free. I'm sure number are allocated in the order the requests were received, but still, I bet you can bribe someone to get their number. To me, if you have a 1-888 number, that means you are, at best, the ten-million-and-first ranked company. And everyone knows it.