Just spent $300 on a consultation with a search specialist

I hired someone to help me find my son, and they basically just ran the same public records searches I could have done myself. It felt like a real waste, especially since the money came out of my reunion fund. Has anyone had a better experience with a paid search service that actually delivered results?

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oliviac222mo ago

Wow, that's rough. In my experience, a good specialist's real value is in the analysis and leads you wouldn't know to look for, not just the database access.

dylan9762mo ago

It's a real shame how many services just repackage free tools. They bank on people being too stressed to know the difference. Makes you wonder what you're really paying for.

knight.oscar10d ago

And it's not even just the repackaging thing that bugs me, it's that most of these services have the exact same terms of service buried under different branding. You can spot the same paragraphs word for word across three different sites and nobody calls it out because who actually reads those things?