At one point or another we all have to deal with it. There’s some sort of incident and we need to look up a name from a cell phone number. Howe we end up there doesn’t matter: your partner gets some surprising calls, you get targeted by a prank caller, your teenage kid starts hanging out with a new rough crowd. You and I both know that the reason isn’t important. The most important thing is picking a good site to use so that you know that you can get the name and address of the person who owns that number.

But how do you go about picking a great reverse look up site? The difficulty for you is sorting through the scores of cell phone look up sites available. Some of them are outstanding and completely worth the cost of a year long subscription. However, most of them aren’t worth the time it took to look them up, much less the cost of a subscription. How do you know the difference? Thankfully, there’s a rather easy way to check a look up site and make a confident decision about whether it’s worth it or not.

When you’re looking at a site and thinking about using it for a reverse cell phone look up, see if the site offers this one feature that legitimate look up sites include, but none of the scam sites will ever want to offer. I call it try before you buy. You should be able to go to the site, enter a number, and test to see if they actually have the name and address of that number’s owner BEFORE you pay them any money whatsoever. If you can do that, you can be assured that it’s a good site and worth spending some money on.

This one tip will make it easy to pick an excellent reverse look up site.