sms-activate has eaten my balance for two weeks, what did people move to

My friend, two weeks now sms-activate is eating my balance and giving nothing back.

I rent number, timer run, no code, money gone. Not every time but maybe four in ten, and on the platform i need is worse. Support say is the service provider, always the same answer. Actually i lose maybe 30 dollar this way already which is not big money but is the principle.

So question is simple - what everybody moved to? I dont need cheapest, i need one where the code actually arrive.

same here for like a month

Caveat before the answer: I don't think this is a provider problem and switching may not fix it.

The failure rate on codes went up across every service I use at roughly the same time this summer, which suggests the platform changed something about which senders it trusts rather than any one reseller going bad. I moved a chunk of volume to a second provider in July specifically to test this and the failure rate followed me - 35% at the old one, 31% at the new one. That gap is noise.

What did help: 1) stop renting the cheapest country tier, the failure rate on the bottom tier is roughly double, 2) request and abandon fast rather than sitting on a timer, the first sixty seconds is where the code lands or doesn't.

Four in ten is the product. You bought a lottery ticket and you're annoyed it lost.

Is true what Marta say but also is provider problem, both can be.

I keep balance at two service now and always try cheap one first, if fail in one minute i go to other. Cost me maybe 15 percent more, save me the anger. Anyway do not put big balance anywhere, they all disappear eventually.

The sixty second thing is working for me. Failure is down a lot. Thank you both.