Netsleuth.com: Not Worth the Fee's

Niki
Niki, Yahoo! Contributor Network
Sep 18, 2007 "Share your voice on Yahoo! websites. Start Here."
I have heard many people say how they have looked someone up online before they dated them or for some other reason, my sister likes to see which of her friends from our hometown are in jail. I decided to see how easy it would be to find myself or someone else I knew online. On most of the websites for people search, you have to pay to see the full results, and there is no guarantee that the person you are looking for is in those results. I ended up at Netsleuth.com, they require you to pay a subscription fee, but there is not a limit on searches. You must be 18 and older to use this website. It sounded good, but I did not want to pay any money. When I was checking out the register page a there was not mention of any fees, which is why I was registering. I thought I had finally found a free people search website. I did not find out there was a fee until I was half way registered. You get a chance to get a one-year subscription free, but you have to complete one of 'their sponsors' offers. Some of the 'offers' have small shipping and handling fees, however netsleuth rebates anything you pay associated with the offers. The offers are stuff like free trails at eFax, Stamps.com, etc... nothing that I really wanted but I wanted the free subscription. Therefore, I did the two-week trail at Stamps.com, and got my free one-year subscription. I did not stay with stamp.com longer than a day, just long enough to get the netsleuth account activated. Stamps.com did not charge me since I canceled before the two-trail was up, so I was happy. It was truly free.

Of course, after I logged in and 'used' netsleuth, I knew why they were giving subscriptions away. This website was useless. If I had paid $39.95, I would be very mad. The website claims that you will not find the type of information that netsleuth offers anywhere else. That is a bunch of bull; all they have is links to other websites. The websites they have links to, you could find by doing a search on Google or Yahoo. In addition, they link to other people and information searching websites that charge a fee. If you read their Terms and Conditions it says they are a resource database, and relieve themselves of any problems resulting from misinformation, basically, you use Netsleuth at your own risk. Bottom line, Netsleuth is a waste of time, I am glad in my case it is just time and not wasted money. If you want to look for someone or information, go directly to the last known county court, city, etc... website and look through public records. You do not need to pay for access to this information.

Published by Niki

A short biography huh, well none of my stories are short and most people wouldn't believe them anyways. I had some crazy stuff happen to me. I'm a Cha Cha Guide, blogger, freelance writer/web designer,...  View profile

11 Comments

Post a Comment
  • Check out the New NetSleuth.com6/8/2009

    No monthly fees
    No cost per click
    No obligation

    Databases are updated just about every day, incorporating various data updates and feature upgrades as quickly as possible. In a nutshell, the data contained in NetSleuth reports and content is as fresh as you'll find anywhere - online or off!


  • Jon5/27/2008

    Yes, but was it worth the apostro-fee's?

  • Cc5/8/2008

    I paid a fee but not once did I get any info it always sent me to a differant site wonting more money I sent them an email about the problem they sent me back an email saying they were sorry for the problem months ago. Now i rec. another email saying my time would be up in 7, days did I wont to reup. I was stupied the first time not this time.

  • jan5/8/2008

    Yes I fully agree. I paid $39.95 to access DMV records and when I got to the sight there was nothing for DMV records. A total waist of money. Thank god clik Bank said they would refund the debit to me. We'll see if they do.

  • John3/18/2008

    I was almost ready to click on the payment button...thanks for the review. I will save my money and my temper for something else.

  • Archer1/19/2008

    I can confirm what's stated in Tiffany's review. The site is a total scam -- misrepresented and a worthless waste of time.

  • Rob10/7/2007

    Thanks. Good review of a useless site. I thought I might compliment my free NetDetective Standard and my low cost annual fee WebInvestigator (CIS) & SearchSystems (Direct Pass) subscriptions but your advice on a better understanding of their cryptic "Terms of Use" policy helped me decide to not waste my time with them. Thanks again for the insight!

  • Beth9/30/2007

    Thanks for the heads up. I too was excited to find a free internet info souce today. I did not proceed due to the links they provided, which all cost money. You know what is said.."if it is too good to be true, it probably isn't" Thanks for confirming my hunch.

  • john9/22/2007

    Good to know thanks!

    Remineralized your teeth yet?
    http://h2lo.com/dental_health

  • Francis Rivera9/21/2007

    I did come a memmber today to netsleuth, I knew it was not real thanks for the now I we cancel. it seem kind of funky when I stared to look for the info. !hu!


    Thank you

Displaying Comments
Next »

To comment, please sign in to your Yahoo! account, or sign up for a new account.