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Using Tracfone for Amazon set up
 

Most of the threads i found on this were not up to date - so, how long do i need to keep this phone activated? should i just use the 10 minutes/60 days of service they give you with the phone or will i need to add minutes in case amazon calls again after initial set up?

I called tracfone and they said if the minutes/service days expire, i can activate it again, but i may not get back same number.

Any suggestions from your experience?

Hello! My experience is to ALWAYS have the phone active for Amazon incase..

I use a tracphone to great success in activating my Amazon accounts.

It only costs $20 for 60 days of service so its really not that bad.

Plus the phones I get are only $10 and have double minutes/service days.
Keep the phone active, but you do not need to add anymore time than you I would say 30 minutes.

Use a phone service or google. Much cheaper...

What do you mean phone service - a call forwarding? And what's the google phone service about - not familiar with it?
Thank you

Google Voice will give you a number that you can foward your calls to.. when you make a new stealth accout.. use the number that you got from google voice.. You will need to creat a gmail accout to use google voice.

What's the cost?

Google voice
 

Thank you Newjerseymax - I set up the google voice - wish I asked b4 buying trac phone & minutes - oh well can use another time.

I assume you can get a new phone number for every gmail set up??

Have you or anyone else used this with Amazon for phone verification? When I called the new google number from my home phone for the 1st time a voice message came on saying - "please state your name after the tone and google voice will try to reach ----" It only happens the 1st time you dial from a phone - so I am assuming that it will do it to amazon.
??

I use google voice all the time. When amazon calls.. you have to press 1 really quickly to accept the call.. then put in amazon's code..
you can get 2 google numbers per one phone number.
so if you use your cell phone number to get a google number. you can only get 2 numbers off of google using your cell phone number.

I tried the google voice a short time ago . My amazon account had gotten suspended out of the gate..

hmmm google voice is pretty good - you think the cause of your suspension was google voice?

i have an open account right now that I used a google voice account... I don't think that is the problem

I opened the amazon acct yesterday with google voice - so far so good - Thanks again to all for the feedback