We got a Grand Central (Which is now Google) number and have it forwarded to our cell phone. We tested it with our home phone---
When you get a call for the first time GRand Central picks up before ringing your phone and asks for a name--it then rings your phone and asks if you want to accept the call from the name given---(their phone number will display)
In the case of ebay verification the name you get should be the audible automated 4 digit code you will enter in ebay for verification. Of course I haven't tried this yet but it should work fine--I had a voicemail service (privatephone which is now gone) when ebay did their verify on me and it worked fine with that.
Paypal is a different animal however which requires a real time connection (voicemail wont work in this case). This is paramount if you are using a bogus address where they would send the code to. But of course you can't win with Paypal because if you get verified by them you need to send them your SS# and DL# and that sucks Whitmans you know what!
Grand Central will remember the name associated with the number so future calls from that number will be directly sent to your cell phone which will ring, when you pick up the auctomated GC operator will ask if you want to receive the call from this person and press:
1 to accept the call
2 to send it to voice mail
3 send to vox and listen in on it
4 accept and record to vox
do nothing and it will go into voice mail.
This shold suffice the hungry ebay demon and its free! GrandCentral: The New Way to Use Your Phones |