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Government Registry Review
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* warning: unlimited search passes may be subject to limitations Features:
Editor's Verdict: Like the similarly named Gov-registry.us, GovernmentRegistry.org is not run by or affiliated with any department of the US government. It is in fact run by CIS, a company behind many of the lower ranking background checking websites reviewed in this category. Each of their sites offers a similar service but is differently branded, with a different feel, slightly different searching options and possibly a different fee structure, clearly with the intention of marketing each to a different kind of user. That said, this is one of the better groomed guises of the CIS organization. The website looks and feels polished and authoritative. It goes out its way to feel official and trustworthy and would probably succeed in doing so were it not legally required to clearly state that it isn't a government site after all. In common with many CIS fronts, the front page is way too long, goes on forever and tries to wear you down into a state of ready compliance in the hope that you won't click on too many of the links and find out that there is actually very little else to this website other than the reassuring facade. It's the online equivalent of assuming that anyone who comes to your door wearing a suit and tie must be a trustworthy individual. The site does at least have an occasionally updated FAQ (shared with many of its sister sites, so not really specific enough to be all that useful) and an easily accessible sign-up page where the membership rates are clearly detailed. This may sound like a fairly basic feature to have on a background checking site, but oh-so-many similar sites refuse to tell you what their rates are until you've already started searching, which makes comparing prices on different sites quite difficult. The 1 year "Unlimited Search Pass" membership is pitched as fairly cheap and the one-off searching option horrendously expensive, all to make you want to sign up for the 1 year pass, of course. The membership structure appears enticingly simple until you realize that the "Unlimited Search Pass" is only unlimited in terms of the number of searches you can conduct, not the types of searches you can conduct. The membership fee appears to be a one-off expense, which it is in the sense that there will be no monthly repeat billing, but the site is structured so that in order to conduct some types of searches you will have to pay extra. This amount is deducted from the "search results access fee" you are required to pay which then becomes the balance from which subsequent search fees are deducted. If you run out of credits you have to spend more money to increase your balance. The short version is that this system is nowhere near as simple or as cheap as the sign-up page seems to suggest. The moral is to always read the terms and conditions and the disclaimers before you sign up. Or better yet, don't sign up at all. There are far better sites around that offer a much more straightforward and transparent service than this, and provide better value for money too. Furthermore there have been allegations that this and other CIS sites provide search results far below the standard expected by the customer when they signed up. In fact, it is said that GovernmentRegistry.org then ask customers for additional fees to access information which the customer assumed they had already paid for when they first signed up. Customer support, which is only via email, is also said to be quite difficult to obtain. Legally it is problematic to say whether or not these complaints portray a fair and representative picture of how Governmentregistry.org operates, on the other hand we are within our rights to suggest that you avoid this site and instead try one of the tried and trustworthy sites that made it into our list of top ten background check websites.
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