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What happens if the address is that of a suspended account? How will the new phone number work?

It doesnt matter if you get a second line you'll be wasting £120 lol plus £11 rental because your still at the same address which is linked to your phone number, doesnt anyone read???

Paypal have a database which is like the bt phonebook, address's match phone numbers!

You can get away with it if you have access to an address so they can send the verification code via mail, but verification by phone will not work if the address doesnt match. They will send out a physical slip. (If you have access to the property) YES your onto a winner. Stooom!

After trawling the interweb this afternoon, I have managed to get another geographical landline number, for £36.00 per year (£3 per month) that has just verified with both eBay and PayPal no problems.


Cheers,

Equilibrium :cool:

so equil how have you verified it against the address??

Well I just entered the address I'm using (real address, just not mine), and the phone number and accepted the call when it came through, pressed the number to say expecting the call and got the code. All went swimmingly from there.
Same with PP - they called, I entered their code, and the PP screen said we have now confirmed you at that address (or something like that). Fairly straightforward I reckon, not even anything particularly sneaky... but if anyone asks, You ain't seen me, Roight?

Equilibrium :cool:

hahaha like that last bit :P "Today i have been mostly screwing..... Paypal" "You aint seen me Roigght"

Nah, thing is with paypal for example if i put in 20 Highmeadow, London and the phone number didnt match that address, they send a slip in post coz they cant match it.

Are you using your own address or a ⊗⊗⊗⊗ address?

Using a real address,(a ⊗⊗⊗⊗ address to me, but it is a real address on a real street) near my address with a geographical phone number, so has the area code of the area I am in.

The company I got it from had a Live Chat thing going on, so I spoke to a guy before I bought the number; I asked if it was suitable for Paypal/ ebay verification and he said, "We don't condone using these numbers for multiple ebay or paypal a/cs"

Obviously not - that would be wrong, maybe even morally questionable. :rolleyes:

I gave some reason for wanting the no other than Arfur Daley purposes and the guy said it works the same as any other phone number.

So far he appears to be right.

It may be that the number I bought is registered at my real address, which is near my ⊗⊗⊗⊗ address, thus avoiding any address not matching phone no. kerfuffle. Not sure. All i know is it worked. (so far).

Anyhoo, I'm in stealth mode. Shhh.

Equilibrium :cool:

Good man, well i thought and i was quite sure that paypal matched to the address i mean bang on smack on correct address.. If its geographical then damn i can create about 100 accounts right now lol.

Glad to be of service! I'll PM you the details.

I would be amazed if that is the case!!! If it works please could you let me know the company you have used to do this.

Thank you.

any other ways for verification besides the phonebox way and to get a new number because it not worth paying so much

hi everyone! after all the preparation the phonebox method didn't work for me. has anyone tried equilibrium's way? i sent a pm but haven't received a reply yet. if anyone tried this or knows how it works please pm me. cheers

i too tried the phone box method but it rings once and when you answer the phone its a dead line? any other plans?

Carrier pigeons? :rolleyes:
. Either harass the relatives and use their phone number and address (unless they already use ebay) or consider work numbers.

well ive tried everything now so gonna give up i think. i dont have a work number and no family that i can use their number. the phone box really was the only hope for me so ebay you win!

Where there's a will there's a way, a workaround will be found, hopefully soon.

Paypal can be verified without phone and address
 

i have just verified my paypal account with card and bank account
without needing to confirm location
also when i rang paypal the person told me that by adding bank and card it overides confirming location .

ebay / thats a load of rubbish i think. They will sooner or later ask you to pick up a call!

To fully verify a UK paypal account one must complete address verification, either via phone or postal address, so the advice given to "ebay" is as Greg has pointed out, incorrect.

Uk Verification Still Working
 

Glad to see this has caused so much interest !

I am still using this method and it does work, you only need
to use a ⊗⊗⊗⊗ id address with ebay registration and say you
live in london use an appropriate geographical located number,
i,e 071,081 or your own gepgraphic location. Always use
⊗⊗⊗⊗ address for ebay registration but make sure it is does
exist ! So do not say 1 arse street, croydon, EB1 AY.

Use a proper address, locational phone number and you will
not get flagged, i haven't and am running 10+ accounts
no problems, fromthe moment i posted this original post.

I use a nokia N95 with the tone switched on vol 3 (loudest)

Most phones have personalised settings which allow you to
turn up yout tone handset settings, so just check the volume
setting is on max !

Any problems PM me, oh and please dont go spending money on
extra lines, etc !!

if you have a bt line you can get an additional number which is called a "call sign"number which is charged monthly. You can also change it every so often.

phoneboxes dont work any longer :(

Unless you followed the steps and used the same equipment as the OP, you can only state that it didn't work for you.
Please try not to make blanket statements, as the method still might work for others.
Perhaps you can PM the OP and ask if it's still working for them.

I think the BT boxes do work..

i just tried the phone box and it didnt work for me, it rang and i answered and ebay asked me to press the no. but when i tried pressing it on the mobile it didnt work.

It might be that your mobile isn't producing the correct tone that is needed or it's not loud enough.

maybe but i put it on the loudest setting

only some phones with loud touch tone work...

instead of useing the phone box why not just use a virtual phone service that routes to your mobile.

zippy, this has been addressed many times before.
Google: site:aspkin.com +virtual +phone +UK
In most cases, it no longer works.

use the N95, great mobile and put it on loud speaker. I dunno why people dislike them :confused:

when i did used to do the callbox trick i used my nokia 8600 luna that wasn't even loud but it still worked without any problems

Just did it again twice, worked fine both times using my Iphone

mattcafc,

have your fleabay and paypal accounts lasted when useing phone box method?

also was the box in your general area?

also how are you doing it by laptop or a friend at other end.

Probably using 3G on his iPhone?

This is what I do

Sign up multiple accounts to ebay when I get time using a made up account.

Then when I get time I verify them one at a time over the weeks. I get to the phone call page to register to sell, I then go to the local phonebox, call my girlfriend through the number who changes the one on Ebay to the phone box. She then clicks submit so it calls the phonebox.

Im standing at the phonebox waiting, call comes through, Iphone on loudspeaker held up to the handset, when I have to click the number I do and I then get the verified Ebay number. Call back to girlfriend who puts it in and there we go new account.


I have lost a couple of accounts about a month ago for being linked, but that was from my own mistake. Have made around 18 accounts this way and still have 15 that work. The oldest one was registered in May 08 using this method and has 41 positives 100% feedback.

mattcafc, cheers for posting a explination mate. ;)

is this method still working?

as ive sucessfully created a sellers account with this method but 2 weeks ago i tried to list an item on ebay and it took me to the create a sellers account form and asked me to go through the procedure again, which i did. I entred the code and it said i created a sellers account sucessfully however when i tried to lis it took me to the create a sellers account form again.

is this still working for anyone else?

As the author of this post i can confirm that of today 15th oct
the phonebox verification system STILL works, some have complained
that their tones are not loud enough which is the problem, nothing
to do with ebay.

I use a N95 Nokia without any problems

Regards