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It seems all UK sim cards now need topping up before receiving SMS, is that right?

It's going to get expensive making multiple accounts as the minimum top up is £5

Anyone have any workarounds?

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Is 5 quid top up that expensive? How long is the top up good for?

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How long is a piece of string ? Depends on the network and plan, if you choose wisely and just make 1 call a month to keep it alive it could last 1-2 years.

Its not really a issue for eBay as you're unlikely to be registering many accounts and you need the number for the life of the account anyway.

Only becomes a issue for services where your opening 10's or 100's of accounts a month and only need to receive one verification txt, would soon add up at £5 a time.

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uk guys comeon lets make some money! whats ebay saying for you all

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has any one been getting hit with these M071's of late? seems the programmers got a new bot working overtime with this

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MC071 to be precise

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#3 Making multiple accounts per week, and losing a total of £6 if the account becomes toast is a lot

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I think EE do not require a top-up in order to just receive SMS codes.
And they stay active for 5-6 months up to a whole year or more if you're lucky.

Other than that... LycaMobile seem to work great with Google,eBay and many others (£10 initial top up without a plan required though) and they stay active for up to 2 years.

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Used to be the case but that changed several months ago. EE PAYG does require a minimum £5 top up to be able to receive sms.

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just change the option from mobile to PHONE when you do the verification and you get the automated call instead.. problem solved.

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I forgot this was relating to Ebay.

EE will still work fine to receive calls without adding any credit.

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Ok, I cannot do that as I am in another country presently and I would need credit to receive the call.

Do you know if it's possible to receive the call in one of their free roaming countries?

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Receiving a call depends on the sim provider providing roaming abilities I would think - costlier for sure but many seem to do so these days.

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Vodaphone, it's free no need to top-up.

Use this link to get a bunch of them free of charge:

https://www.youngmobile.co.uk/produc...afone-sim-card

Hope that helps.