If you have been looking for a site providing 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 are looking for. Even if you perused through numerous internet articles on cell phone lookup, just hoping that someone would reveal that hidden website, I am sure you didn't find what you were searching for.

This is because there is no hidden website. If free cell phone reverse lookup was available, it wouldn't be hard to come by because it would be spread around town instantly. This is a service in hot demand since cell phone numbers are not compiled in the same manner as home phone numbers.

Listing all registered cell phone numbers in a completely open directory would make life simpler when you want to know exactly who is trying to contact you, but it would also take away some of the appeal of a cell phone. There is a certain comfort trusting that a telemarketer can't just dial your cell number and start calling as they please.

Articles and websites offering free reverse phone look up for cellular numbers often rely on ideas that plainly are not accurate and very rarely deliver the useful information you want. Listening to their directions will be a huge waste of time, and here is why.

Myth #1: Using Search Engines

Some sources recommend going to Google or any other internet search engine and quickly searching for the phone number of concern. This is believed to guide you to websites where the owner of that number has stored their contact information, which may include their cell number. The drawback is very few people list their cell phone number on the internet for the very same reason most people would rather it not be accessible in a phone book for the general public: they don't want strange people calling their cell.

It is sometimes reported that these numbers may be retrieved from auction sites such as EBay or shopping webpages where the owner may have made a purchase, but this is quite useless to you. These sites do not openly reveal personal information used to make a purchase, otherwise no one would buy from them online. When you buy an item online, such as Ebay, you use a protected site where your blocked from public viewing. A search engine is not going to go through the contact records of a shopping site and find a cell phone number. It simply doesn't work that way.

Also, you cannot get someone's personal information from a phone number provided to EBay, and even if you could the most it would lead you to is a screen name, which is likely to be just as useful as the phone number you already have.

Myth #2: Online Phone Directories

If you could go to whitepages.com or other phone listings and find private information just 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 phone book sites in attempt to retrieve the name of the owner is throwing away space and time. Enough said.

The only legitimate way to identify the name connected with that number that has you curious is to pay a minor price to a reputable reverse phone lookup service. Some services may charge a very small fee to access the service for one lookup, while others may give you access to an endless number of searches. No matter which services you get for your dollar, the fee should be rather inexpensive for a legitimate service.