Why You Should Pay for a Reverse Phone Directory Service

If you type a type a person�s name into the web, you can often come up with hoards of information about that person � such as seeing photos from their last vacation, current marriage status, their volunteer work, and much more. Internet searches are almost always free with one common exception: if you have a phone number and want to find out who it belongs to, you will likely have to join a reverse phone directory.

A reverse phone directory is just like the white pages but backwards. You type in a phone number and the reserve directory will tell you who it belongs to. The white pages actually does publish a reverse phone directory. However, it is impractical and costly to print this for everyone so printed copies are usually regulated to libraries and police stations. The reverse phone directories that you find online aren�t like your typical white pages directory though. These companies get access to information from multiple sources, including cell phone companies and private listings. If you want to do a reverse cell phone search or find out who an unlisted number belongs to, then these private directories can help.

As can be expected of all private companies, some are a lot better than others. Our team did a bit of investigating by signing up to multiple reverse phone directories to see what results we got when typing in our own numbers. Some of the reverse cell phone directories also offered other services such as social media checking, criminal background checks, email address search, genealogy records, work history searches, and more.

Not surprisingly, the free reverse cell phone directories didn�t come up with much information. When they did have results, you had to pay a large fee in order to view them. The people search engines which had weekly or monthly fees did much better. The only problem is that they brought up all the results � including results from quite a long time ago. With one of the cell phone numbers we checked, we got 7 different names for it � despite the fact that the number had been used by the same woman for the past 5 years.

On an interesting note, the reserve phone directories and people searches which charge weekly or monthly were much better than those charging yearly. This makes sense though: if a search directory does a good job, then members will renew their subscriptions once the time is up. The search directories which are not high quality will have to get all the money they can from clients by requiring yearly subscriptions because they know that members won�t renew once the time is up.

There are some ways to do free reverse phone searches and free people searches. You can start by typing the number into a search engine or typing the person�s name. But with the vast amounts of information flowing on the web, it will be very difficult to collate the information and see which is pertinent or not. That is where the reverse phone directories come in � but don�t expect anything unless you pay for it.