Craigslist new phone verification system is now kicking into high gear where they will soon require it for all cities and all categories. Already as of 10/18/08 they require phone verification for most cities and categories. How do you bypass, avoid, or get around this new phone verification requirement for all accounts?
This means you can no longer post your ads to Craigslist without an account for every city you want to post to. In addition, you will have to have each account verified by phone and your phone number will have to have the correct city area code. In other words, you cannot give your Los Angeles area code and get your account in New York verified. Craigslist has always been on a mission to stop spammers as we have had to deal with our ads constantly getting flagged and deleted but it was something that was manageable. This new Craiglsist phone verification system, however, appears to be the biggest blow yet as it will be hard to get around.
If you want to avoid the phone verification system, you will now find there are many people online that will sell you phone verified accounts on Craigslist. This is quickly becoming a new industry of people who somehow collect phone verified accounts from all the cities and are selling them in groups of 50 or 100 cities. The amounts they charge varies but one thing is for sure: you need to be very careful here because you can lose everything on this deal. There are other websites that will charge you as much as $197.00 to “show” you how to make your own phone verified accounts. BEWARE: THIS IS A SCAM. Remember, Craigslist is militant in their attack on spammers and they will delete accounts in a second if they think they are spam accounts. Don’t be stupid and pay someone $197 to learn how to make your own accounts. Graigslist is smarter than that and they will be deleted.
When you buy these phone verified accounts from someone on Digital Point forums or wherever you find them, these accounts are really the property of Craigslist. They have made it very clear that they will delete any phone verified accounts if they are deemed spam accounts. So, if you do buy these accounts from someone else or even somehow figure out how to get your own, these accounts can be deleted in the blink of an eye. It is just smart not to pay someone more than you are willing to lose if you buy phone verified accounts from someone.
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i think craiglist’s google trustrank will expire soon
This is an excellent education for craigslist ad posters.
How I can post multple ads in a day and what kind of Ip changing can help me in this reagrd
I wasn’t aware of this phone verification until I recently tried to post on craigslist.
This is good to reduce spam. On the flip side this can make legit ads difficult to post.
How the CRAP do I get around the phone verification?
I have ads to post on craigslist!
I ran into this same exact scenario. It sucks. I offer a legitimate service and I offer this service to all US cities.
It is something that many Craigslist users would appreciate.
Aren’t all Craigslist postings basically spam anyway?
Craigslist will start to feel the hit by going down a fucked up road like Ebay. They keep restricting people and I for one am done with the assholes. I post items collectables on several different cities and some are world war two german itmes, I have had my ip address for being flagged, now I need to phone verify and only for one city that my phone is from? are a they fucking nuts? I will move on to the next big thing. fuck craigslist.
Jim,
All you have to do is get a market expansion line for whatever area you want to sell to and then give that number to craigslist.
I have a FL area code, and I’m trying to post legitimate ads IN FLORIDA! Why wont Craigslist verify my phone number? I am not a spammer they wont call or text to verify. I emailed them for help and nothing but a crappy email. someone help me.
Fuck Craigslist.. they’re fascist anyways.. next .. down with Facebook and Twotter!
The only thing I dislike about having to have an area code in the correct city is that on the rideshare I usually post one ad in the city I am leaving from, and another in the city I am returning from. Rarely do I find someone who wants to go round trip that wants to leave and return the same days as I do. I can usually find someone going one way, each way, though.
FYI, Craiglist is partly owned by EBay.
It appears that the Craigslist system only allows for the use of one area code for each area/region. This means that if you are in the Tampa Bay area of Florida you have to have a phone number that is in the 813 area code. I live in Clearwater, which has a 727 area code, and therefore I have a phone with a 727 area code. This sucks!!
Oh..they will get rid of spammers i suppose, but they will lose thier real users that do not spam also, not in an instant but over time as soon as people get fed up with the bullshit! Spammers in MY experiance useing CL have hardly placed up ads…THEY RESPOND TO THEM! So this phone athenication is plain bullshit and not a valid excuse for stopping spammers, fuck CL..id rather solve the problem by useing a different site, this shit is a WASTE of time!
Where would you advice I buy the verified craigslist accounts? Thanks for the info!
I would advise you NOT by the verified Craigslist accounts.
this will piss just enough people off, and when the next online classifieds come around with out htis nonsense, bye-bye CL
I agree. Craigslist is a huge pain in my ass. I have had a few PVA accounts I have used for years in USA. When I travelled to the Philippines on vacation and tried to post the morons flagged my account. When I try to phone verify, it says the damn number is already used (used on MY account previously of course). They don’t support VOIP but that’s all I use nowadays. Nobody uses landlines anymore. And cell phone contracts are a joke so I use prepaid. The world is changing and CR is losing customers because of it. I can’t wait until someone comes out with a better site for posting ads. CR never responds to customer service emails. Let these fascist arrogant asses at CR fade away!!!!!
I’m also trying to post in multiple cities. I have property for sale in Mexico, and vacation rentals as well. A lot of our customers come from the SFBay Area, and Canada, and I would like to let them know what I have available. But I can’t with this CL phone verification thing.
A lot of you said F*% CL, but where are you going to post? I’d like to know, so I can post there, too.
Thanks!
You can use Twitter, but if you’re selling some ‘work from home’ claptrap, you’ll unfollowed or reported pdq.
The answer is to find other grassroots boards in your target areas exploiting the opportunity that Craigslist cast aside. Or build your own Wiki, Blog. Rolling your own involves a bit of work.
Technically speaking, you *can* contact Craigslist and explain that due to the fact you are on a shared computer, you do not wish to download the cookie for each city or region you’re posting in and receive permission to bypass the unwanted cookie (used to track all sorts of info on your machine). So? If you don’t wish to have CL riffling through your underwear drawer, they allege to offer a work-around. And if they’re just serving up a load of BS, take your business elsewhere ~ simply roll your own and Tweet.
I’m now done with Craigslist. I am a legitimate person selling household stuff from home. Extra stuff I have around, because I hate having garage sales.
And Craigslist wants my phone number? Too Big Brother for me, Craigslist. You suck, I’m sick of your antics. I’ll use someone else. You pissed me off.