Cheapeast way to receive an SMS

RomfordNavy

Looking for suggestions on easiest way to receive an SMS message.  Want to post something on Facebook Marketplace but it requires a mobile number for verification and I don't have a working mobile phone at the moment.

Have tried numerous websites which offer free SMS texts but none of them work, most numbers fail because they have already been used for Facebook verification.

pramsay13

Ask an older relative that doesn't have Facebook. 

QrizB

pramsay13 said:

Ask an older relative that doesn't have Facebook. 

Or a younger one that doesn't have Facebook. I understand it's pretty rare among Gen A.

flaneurs_lobster

I've got a Facebook account that I set up without giving a mobile phone (or any phone) number. As far as I can tell I can list stuff on Marketplace.

Can you not do the same? 

RomfordNavy

flaneurs_lobster said:

I've got a Facebook account that I set up without giving a mobile phone (or any phone) number. As far as I can tell I can list stuff on Marketplace.

Can you not do the same? 

I have a normal Facebook account, in fact I run a group with 15k members.  However when I try and list an item on FB Marketplace it insists on wanting to send a message to a mobile.

flaneurs_lobster

RomfordNavy said:

flaneurs_lobster said:

I've got a Facebook account that I set up without giving a mobile phone (or any phone) number. As far as I can tell I can list stuff on Marketplace.

Can you not do the same? 

I have a normal Facebook account, in fact I run a group with 15k members.  However when I try and list an item on FB Marketplace it insists on wanting to send a message to a mobile.

To the mobile number associated with the Facebook account or just to any number you can receive SMS on?

RomfordNavy

flaneurs_lobster said:

To the mobile number associated with the Facebook account or just to any number you can receive SMS on?

Don't have a mobile number associared with the Facebook account so just to any number.

brewerdave

Are you trying to sell a "high value" item ?

RomfordNavy

brewerdave said:

Are you trying to sell a "high value" item ?

No this is for all items that I have tried listing.

123Sandra

Have you tried giving it your landline number (assuming you've got one!).  Some sites are too clever for their own good and block out anything that isn't a proper mobile number, but others don't, and the landline will work fine for verification texts.

RomfordNavy

123Sandra said:

Have you tried giving it your landline number (assuming you've got one!).  Some sites are too clever for their own good and block out anything that isn't a proper mobile number, but others don't, and the landline will work fine for verification texts.

Yes it accepts the landline number but doesn't send any message.