Sometimes 800 numbers appear on your phone without caller ID showing who they are. Are they a reputable firm that you want to be talking to? Or are they something else, a company or group that's harassing you or that you want nothing to do with? When questions like these arise, you need to be able to do reverse 800 numbers searches to find out who that number belongs to. There are two ways to go about this and we'll cover them both here so you can decide which approach is better for you. Or try them both if one doesn't work out.

Doing Reverse 800 Numbers Searches Yourself

There are a lot of free sites on the Internet where you can do 800 number searches. If you Google the phrase 800 number directory, you'll find plenty of them. However, there are a few problems with using them. Because they're free, they are unlikely to list many (or any) 800 numbers that have blocked caller IDs. Gathering that kind of information is expensive.

Also, because the sites are free, they're more likely to have outdated information. Again, it costs money to keep your database of phone numbers current, so free services are less likely to be able to do that.

Finally, because they're free services, they are unlikely to use exactly the same sources, or to use all the possible sources that are available. What that means is that doing a search at two different free sites could produce two different answers. It also means that these sites are going to have less complete data than will a service that charges a fee and can afford to buy the latest and most complete information.

Using a Paid Reverse Phone Number Check Service

For casual searches, the free services are surely the place to start. But if you can't find the information you need through those services, or it is important to you to have the most current information, or you just don't have the time to mess with a bunch of (possibly conflicting) free sites, you'll want to try a paid reverse phone number check service.

These services (Reverse Phone Detective, for example) provide some basic searches for free. But you have to pay to get a complete report which will contain name, address, and assorted other information about the owner of the phone number. These services can afford to use many more sources of data than the free services, and have more incentive to keep their database current than the free services. In addition, they can invest in research that allows them to give you information on blocked and unlisted numbers than you would otherwise be able to get.

Using one of these paid services is simplicity too. Just go to their website, enter the phone number, and click the big button. In seconds the site will tell you whether it has information on the number you entered, along with the types of information it has. If you like what you see, you can pay the small fee and get a complete report which includes all the information that site has available for that number. This is clearly the fastest, most efficient way to do reverse 800 numbers searches.

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