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PeopleWhiz

3.7

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PeopleWhiz.com is a robust data architecture and proprietary platform with over 67 billion searchable public records. You'll have access to the most comprehensive background check reports using public records on the web.


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PeopleWhiz Reviews Summary

The company faces significant challenges regarding customer satisfaction, primarily due to complaints about the quality and accuracy of its reports. Many customers expressed disappointment with the limited information provided, often describing it as outdated or already publicly available. Additionally, there are concerns about billing practices, including unauthorized recurring charges and a perceived lack of transparency regarding additional fees for premium information. While some customers noted prompt service, the overall sentiment leans towards dissatisfaction, highlighting a need for improved product reliability and more effective customer support to address concerns promptly and transparently.

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California
1 review
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When I click on the report it doesn't open it just...
October 16, 2022
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When I click on the report it doesn't open it just comes to this your opinion counts

Date of experience: September 16, 2022

Horrible
October 10, 2022
Previous review

When I click on the report it doesn't open it just comes to this your opinion counts

Date of experience: September 10, 2022
North Carolina
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
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WAY more useless data than needed or required. Data on superfluous folk and UN-related and I have paid for this report twice in past two yrs.

Date of experience: September 15, 2022
Kentucky
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Not happy
October 16, 2022

Not much info found more on different site that I paid for.

Date of experience: September 15, 2022
Oklahoma
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I do not wish to continue with this subscription, I did not realize it would be an on going billing cycle. Please cancel.
Thanks Richard Oder.

Date of experience: September 15, 2022
Wisconsin
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Ok
September 16, 2022

Pretty easy concept, how do i cancel the subscription now

Date of experience: September 15, 2022
Amy F.
New York
1 review
20 helpful votes
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The ad said it was free and it's not, I had to pay. In addition from the searches I have done so far, I have been able to find more on my own searching the internet than you are providing. The first profile had information about a few different people in 1 profile.

Date of experience: September 15, 2022
New York
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
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Hoping this is accurate, which other reports have not been.

Date of experience: September 15, 2022
New Jersey
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I took the $1.00 for one month trial. The information I received was very general. Most of it could be found by simply googling the name. Then another prompt came up telling me about additional, more important and descriptive information, other than name and address and relatives that People Whiz apparently found on the person I asked your company to research. Therefore, I was intrigued with the Premium Package for a month. When the Premium Package was presented, there was a list of people with the same first and last names but all different middle names and middle initials. There was absolutely no further information available on the PERSON I REQUESTED WITH THE MIDDLE INITIAL THEY USE!

Needless to say, I am totally dissatisfied and would like a full refund. Please call me ASAP at
*******315 or *******759. Thank you!

Stupidly, I trusted what I was being told and I went for it! But the company's research did not follow the middle initial I had provided for the person. I felt as if I was reading a phone book with all different middle names.

I truly believe I was scammed and would like my entire amount spent today credited to my credit card ASAP! You "seem" to have back up of many reliable magazines, and companies.

Date of experience: September 15, 2022

I cannot truly rate my experience thus far, I have...
October 15, 2022
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I cannot truly rate my experience thus far, I have not received the report!

Date of experience: September 15, 2022
Illinois
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Not as advertised
October 15, 2022

I received the report but the information received was not as much or as informing as they led me to believe

Date of experience: September 15, 2022
Illinois
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Just checking
September 15, 2022

Good to know the facts! Easy way to verify information.

Date of experience: September 15, 2022
California
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I thought I would have access to all of the things like, social media, phone numbers, more updated and recent information but it was outdated and not that helpful. I'm sorry

Date of experience: September 15, 2022
South Carolina
1 review
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Totally useless info.
October 15, 2022

For $27 I would think you would get some pictures of this person so you know that it's them. All the information is very vague I expected more. And against my better judgment I did the premium I haven't looked at it yet but I'll let you know.

OK I got the premium report it was full of crap that no one is looking for in a background check. I feel that I have been deceived in what you claim and what you deliver. I would like my money back but doubt that happens so i guess spreading the word of the quality service you DON'T deliver appears to be my only recourse unless of course my money was to find its way back on my card

Date of experience: September 15, 2022
Michigan
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I could have gotten this from a telephone book. Nothing here... this is a ripoff! You have to keep upgrading, i e., spend more to get an astrological sign!

Date of experience: September 15, 2022
Wyoming
1 review
0 helpful votes
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These records are too old, nothing up to date, too hard to navigate. Didn't show marriage records, or anything of interest

Date of experience: September 15, 2022
California
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Good good good good good good good good good good

Date of experience: September 15, 2022
Minnesota
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Absolutely useless!
October 15, 2022

Absolutely useless! Looked up myself, didn't have any reliable info other than address. Not my professional licenses, record of my manage. Etc for ANYTHING! Request refund.

Date of experience: September 15, 2022
Pennsylvania
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Payment
September 15, 2022

The site kept rejecting my credit cards. I soon got fraud alerts from the credit card companies I had entered. As this developed I began to fear PeopleWhiz was a fraud and a means of collecting credit card numbers. I immediately declined the charges via the fraud alerts. One account went through. I not only declined but called each of the rejected (by PeopleWhiz) cards. One canceled my card and will send a new one and the other assured me a charge from PeopleWhiz had not gone through on the card. This was a very scary experience and caused me a great deal of time to resolve.

Date of experience: September 15, 2022
Wisconsin
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Notice address on person l am checking is not exactly right

Date of experience: September 15, 2022
Ohio
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I paid with the intention of getting a full report. Not the case!
Now you want to charge more to get the actual info I am seeking.

Date of experience: September 15, 2022
New York
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I have been going around circles for nearly one hour with your not accepting my numerous responses to Change my I'd!

Date of experience: September 15, 2022