If you have been searching for a website offering completely free reverse phone number look up for a cell phone number, you are probably worn out and still don't have the information you need. Even if you read through numerous internet articles on the subject, just hoping that someone would fill you in on that secret website, I am sure you didn't find what you were seeking.

This is because there is no secret website. If completely free cell phone reverse lookup was possible, it wouldn't be hard to come by because it would be spread around town over night. This is a service in high demand since cell phone numbers are not stored in the same way as landline numbers.

displaying all registered cell phone numbers in a completely open directory would make life easier when you want to find out exactly who is bothering you, but it would also eliminate some of the perks that come with a cell phone. There is a certain comfort knowing that a bill collector can't just look up your cell number and start calling nonstop.

Articles and websites offering free reverse phone look up for cell phone numbers usually rely on ideas that plainly are not accurate and rarely, if ever, produce the results you want. Listening to their directions will be a huge waste of time, and here is why.

Search Engines

Some websites recommend going to Google or any other internet search engine and simply searching for the phone number in question. This is supposed to lead you to webpages where the registered user of that cell phone number has stored their personal details, which may include their cell number. The problem is very few people post their cell phone number on the web for the very same reason the majority of people would prefer it not be broadcasted in a phone book for the general public: they don't want strange people calling their cell phone.

It is sometimes believed that cell phone numbers may be retrieved from auction sites such as EBay or shopping webpages where the person may have made a purchase, but this offers nothing of value to you. These sites do not openly reveal personal information used in a purchase, otherwise no one would buy from them online. When you pay for an item online, EBay included, you use a protected forum where your secured from public viewing. A search engine is not going to dig through the contact records of a shopping site and retrieve a cell phone number. It simply doesn't work like that.

Also, you cannot retrieve someone's private records from a phone number stored EBay, and even if you could the most benefit it would provide you is a screen name, which is likely to be just as useful as the phone number you started with.

Myth #2: Online Phone Directories

If you could go to yellopages.com or other phone listings and find personal information only from a cell phone number then there wouldn't be such a high demand for cell phone number reverse lookup directories. Anyone recommending you enter a cell phone number at these common sites in order to find the name of the owner is throwing away space and time. Enough said.

The only fast way to retrieve the name behind that number that has you worried is to pay a nominal price to a legitimate reverse phone lookup directory. Some services may charge a very small fee to access the directory for one number search, while others may deliver you access to an endless number of lookups. No matter how much information you get for your money, the fee should be rather inexpensive for a legitimate service.