Whatever Happened to Good Reverse Phone Search Directories?
By Pigglies
@Pigglies (9329)
United States
March 3, 2007 2:28am CST
I used to be able to type in a phone number and get the city, state, and at least the name of the person who called, possibly even an address.
Now, someone calls with an unfamiliar number, and I look up the phone number to find that I can only see the city and state, otherwise I have to pay $10.
I'm not going to pay $10 everytime someone calls my cellphone and I don't know who they are. Why is this public information no longer free?
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2 responses
@freak369 (5112)
• United States
4 Mar 07
That's something that I would never pay for. I use http://www.anywho.com but be warned, there are a couple of pop up adverts to deal with. This site is free, I just used it like three minutes ago. It gave me the name and address of the phone number listed with no fee.
@Pigglies (9329)
• United States
4 Mar 07
Hmm, I'll have to try that with other numbers then. Maybe it only works with listed numbers, as I can't get this one to come up.
I wouldn't pay either. I guess if it was something really important (like they left a message and I knew them and needed to get there right away), but it's unlikely.
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@freak369 (5112)
• United States
4 Mar 07
If it is a cell number there are times when it will display the provider company like Verizon or Mobile One but most of the time it just says that there isn't any information. I did have a bunch of these bookmarked but they were all erased when my hard drive crashed back in January.
@GnosticGoddess (5626)
• United States
3 Mar 07
Which site do you use? The one I use I think it's whitepages.com I can usually find it unless it's a cellphone number.
