New Jersey , DJ business . `` The minute we plugged the phone jack into the wall , it began ringing , '' Potter said . Mostly , Potter said , the callers are `` a lot of '80s fanatics '' and he lets the calls ring through to his voice mail . When he did answer a call three years ago , Potter found his own Jenny on the line . `` She had been using my number to give out to guys that she did n't like at bars , '' he said . `` It was a bum phone number . '' The young lady from Hoboken , New Jersey , told Potter she was just curious about who might be getting the calls . Potter ended up asking her out . `` I figured if she was having to give out a bum number that often then she was probably pretty cute , '' he said . `` We ended up meeting for drinks . We dated for awhile and it was actually a great friendship . '' Potter recently moved from Weehawken and decided to try to make money off the infamous digits with an
-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Jenny 's phone number is for sale , but not for a song . `` 867-5309 / Jenny '' originally appeared on Tommy Tutone 's `` Tommy Tutone 2 '' album . Bids for a New Jersey version of the number , stuck in the minds of millions since Tommy Tutone 's `` 867-5309 / Jenny '' hit the Top 10 in 1982 , had reached $ 5,100 on eBay as of Monday morning . The song is about a guy who finds Jenny 's name and number scribbled on a bathroom wall . `` This is really , in my opinion , one of the last cultural remnants of the '80s pop culture era ... other than the mullet , '' said Spencer Potter , a 28-year-old DJ who is selling the number he got for free five years ago . While Potter is overlooking the fact that `` 867-5309 '' is an active phone number in dozens of other area codes , it does get called a lot by curious people . Potter said he has gotten about 40 calls a day since he got the area code 201 version for his Weehawken ,