Craigs List users - How do you Phone Authenticate?

[granpajohn]

I don't know which forum to post this in, but there are a lot of CL afficianados on Hearth, so...

1. I've successfully listed before, but not in Furniture for Sale.
2. It told me that a listing such as this requires Phone Authentication. (Fair enough)
3. In said process, I'm supposed to give it a phone number, and then within 5 minutes, it calls the number and gives me a code to put in.
4. The first number is rejected because it is IOP. The next number, (cell) was rejected for calling too often, but after waiting a while, it actually did ring the phone, (from California). Unfortunately, all I got was dead silence. No secret code.
5. I used the Help message feature 3 times. Got a generic answer once. Otherwise useless.

Anybody know how to defeat this problem?

BTW...I listed my furniture ad on Ebay Classifieds. Worked pretty well. But no callers yet.

 

[Shari]

CL has never asked me for phone authentication. Are you sure you weren't just scammed?

Shari

 

[woodsman23]

I smell scam, i sell plenty of things on there and have never been asked fro a phone number or a secret code

 

[SolarAndWood]

nope no phone/no codes here either. Just an email that you have to receive to do the final post.

 

[Elderthewelder]

I have listed many things on C/L in numerous categories. Have never once been asked to do any type of phone verification

 

[granpajohn]

dang.
I will research further and get back to you.
Thanks guys.

 

[granpajohn]

Well it looks real, (I'm afraid).
the site is accounts.craigslist.org. (lemme know if that's wrong)

A google search turned up this among many articles about it.: http://www.a1articles.com/article_1389469_15.html

Supposed to only be done one time.
I'll keep checking.

Edit: It seems to have worked this time. Got a machine generated voice call that gave me the code and told me not to share it with anyone. I entered the code and everything went fine.
(So, um, anyone interested in buying some used furniture? Priced for quick sale.)

 

[Corey]

Sounds like they use it to help control spam. Was this something you opted to do? or maybe your account was flagged?

http://www.craigslist.org/about/help/phone_authentication

I've listed quite a few things, but never been ask for authentication.

 

[JustWood]

New process CL has.
I had to go through the same thing about 2 months ago.
It's alot easier to manage ads now through the account.

 

[stee6043]

I've done the phone confirmation. It was quite simple and legit....

 

[granpajohn]

For future reference; it looks like VOIP phone numbers are not accepted, nor are toll free. If it hadn't been for my wife's cell phone number, I wouldn't have been able to do it. And, that didn't even go through until the third try; I assume because the cell is unreliable.
And I agree... the account is running faster and better now.

BTW...If you ever use FreeCycle, (are they still in business?), I found them quite difficult to do also. This was a few years ago, but they would only say that I was not qualified.

 

[gpcollen1]

Freecycle is ok but hard to work with sometimes - which is why there are the equivalent in Yahoo ReUseIt groups for areas...