Hello MPSocial!
I recently bought some SIM Cards to try and get my accounts unlocked… I read some others posts regarding a SIM Card reader… Does anyone have experience with these?
Do you simply put the SIM Card into the reader and it displays messages you receive? Do I have to have this line on my phone plan?
Any help with this is much appreciated!
A sim card reader simply reads the information on the sim card, you can’t use it to send or receive texts, data, or anything.
Just get some cheap, network unlocked phone and use it to receive messages for verification. That’s how everyone’s doing it. I got one of those card readers from ebay to test it, @dwayne is right, they only read what’s already on the sim card, you can’t receive messages.
There are some devices, made in china 
but they’re pretty expensive for Chinese stuff.
Search in Aliexpress “card phone” they’re 15$
Yeah pretty much what everyone else said, you dont want a sim reader
Buy a cheap unlocked phone and do a little google research and find a sim provider that sells sim cards that come preactivated and dont require a top up or whatever other specifications you need such as a certain country you may be living in.
Thank you for the help! I bought 10 sims from the forums here
Sorry for the follow up question lol… Unlocked meaning it can be used on any network? So I could get an unlocked phone off amazon and add tracphone minutes or something?
Yeah any $10-20 unlocked phone meaning the ESN is clean and not locked to a particular network.
Check out this seller thread he also suggests a phone to use. THREAD
No the whole point is to buy already activated sim cards so you dont have to spend so much money topping up each sim card.