Why is using free Background Check services a bad idea?

Why is using free Background Check services a bad idea?

There are a couple of free Background Check services you can try. Unfortunately most of them are very time-consuming, or they deliver very basic details.

The first one are of coarse the search engines.

You just type the person's name on Google, Yahoo! Or MSN(Bing) and see what comes up.
If you are lucky the person you are searching on has a unique outstanding name - in these cases its possible to actually find some details about that person.
But if the person you are looking for has a common name, you are faced with hundreds, not to say thousands, of pages of information.
I have tried searching on my new neighbors this way - after going threw 21 full pages on Google I felt like pulling out my hair on by one – I had only 3256 more pages to go…

Another option is going to your local Court House or your local Police Station and doing a search there.

It's actually quite a good way to go. But it's very time-consuming and involves a lot of paper work. Nowadays, with the easy access to the internet, hardly anybody chooses this route.

Another way to go is to use the so called "professional" free Background Check services

When using the  "professional" free Background Check services you face a couple of issues.

First - you will have to ignore the tendency of these "free" websites to try and upgrade you to their paid services – they try to do it in all kinds of very creative ways.

Second - you will find out very quickly that these services are "slightly" disorganized.
Some of these websites consist of very long lists of free databases from different states and counties - you may have to perform your search on each and every one of them separately.

Third - If you do happen to have the patience to go through all of these databases and collect the information one piece at a time, you will find out that many times you just get very basic details about the person you are searching. It might be that you only get their name, age and address.

Fourth - If you are an obsessive person (like me :)) and you keep on digging deeper and deeper into these free databases you might eventually come up with some real information - only to find out later, that this valuable information that you just spend hours of research looking for, was accurate 10 years ago… :(
You see, one of the main problems with the free Background Check services is that they don't regularly update their archive files (updating such huge archives costs money of course).
I don’t see the point of putting so much effort into getting out of date information.

Knowing how expensive and time-consuming it is to collect all of this information and maintain an updated archive database, I truly believe it makes sense to ask a fee for having the access to it.

It is beyond the scope of this article to cover the many paid Background Check services out there. I will just suggest that you perform some research before registering for one of these websites - not all of them are as good as they should be.