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People Finders Review
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Editor's Verdict: Peoplefinders does exactly what it says on the tin and a whole lot more. It’s a reputable and highly trusted people-searching website which has been around since 1988, expanding its services year by year to provide one of the broadest ranges of people-finding and background-checking options found on the internet. Most of these services can be accessed via one friendly and well-designed website, which goes out of its way to make starting your first search really easy. Although most similar websites (the good ones, anyway) offer full people searches and background checks, each also has its own particular quirks and specialties. Peoplefinders, for example is better than most when it comes to business searches. It can tell you everything you want to know about a company you are about to have dealings with, including who owns it, where they are based, how long they have been operating, and so forth. A currently popular option is its new social networking search, which scours dozens of social networking sites and online communities to help track down old friends. Of course, this is an example of the sort of thing you could probably do for free, but which a site like Peoplefinders can help you do this much more quickly and effectively. Whilst the social networking search is handy, but not uncommon ,option amongst people- searching websites (though rival sites sometimes focus instead on helping you to check that people you connect with online are trustworthy), Peoplefinders also offers one or two more unusual services. An example is their unclaimed money Search, which allows you to track down funds held by companies, government agencies and banks which you are entitled to but may not know about. Whilst the range of different searches you can perform with Peoplefinders is impressive, at its core it is still all about helping people to connect with each other, an area in which Peoplefinders provides one of the best services around. Peoplefinders’ searches generally consist of a four-step process, only the last of which requires payment. First of all you enter as many details as you can about the person you are looking for (the more details the higher the accuracy and the better chance of a hit), then you review the list of possible matches returned, select the person you want to know about and then decide whether or not you want to sign up and pay for the full report. The whole process is very straightforward, but there is a good FAQ, as well as email support, just in case you have any questions. Most of the best people-finding services operate a similar system, but the process of searching through possible matches to find the right person is particularly intuitive and easy to use on this site. It’s also worth noting that Peoplefinders is one of the best services around when it comes to getting accurate results if you only have very sketchy information about the person you are searching for. The reports they produce are also among the most comprehensive you can get. All the services offered by Peoplefinders are cheap and some, like the Sex Offender Alert scheme, are free. This scheme is a real public service, providing you with maps, photos and details of any dubious characters living in your vicinity (unlike other Peoplefinders services this sorts by location rather than by individual person). Peoplefinders are also better than a lot of their rivals when it comes to telling you about the prices they charge up-front, although they aren’t quite perfect in this respect – a detailed tariff prominently featured on the website would be ideal. They also claim to be the fastest people-searching site around, which is very difficult to verify and may well be true, but suffice it to say that their searches tend to be very fast indeed. As an alternative to paying for each search individually, Peoplefinders also offer a range of 24 hour and 30 day membership options, offering virtually unlimited searches within certain categories over those periods. All of these offer potentially very good value, but getting the most bang for your buck is definitely a case of working out your needs in advance and then reading a little about each of the different membership options and deciding which, if any, make the best financial sense for you, or whether you’re better off paying for one search at a time. It’s also worth remembering that at any one time Peoplefinders is likely to be running one or more special offers, so it’s always a good idea to check what they are before you buy. One reason why Peoplefinders.com feels like such a positive, connective environment is that for the most part “the dark side“ of people-searching is being tackled by its sterner sister site – criminalsearches.com, which is still new and currently available in a beta version. This site allows you to check up on the bona fides of any new neighbor, babysitter, workman, locksmith or acquaintance you desire - basically anyone you don’t like the look of. A major plus is that using criminalsearches.com is currently free (although ethically it’s hard to make a case that a company should be allowed to charge people for information on possible threats to their safety and that of their families anyway). A separate website is a nice way of handling the less wholesome aspects of people searching, avoiding accusations that could be leveled at some rival sites of scare mongering to drum up extra business. Criminalsearches.com is a powerful resource, and it’s a shame that the main Peoplefinders site doesn’t make more of it, although perhaps this is because it’s still only running in a beta version. Peoplefinders is a powerful online tool, whether you are trying to track down old friends or make sure that new ones really are what they seem. The range of services is impressive and the prices are highly competitive, making this one of the best people-finding websites around.
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