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Instant checkmate cost7/14/2023 I tried TN, KY, and IN all of which are open records. Their licenses page where they get the big scary “this person has weapons” warning was based on data that in three states I was testing against did not pull carry permit information for the past several years. Every record contained at least one thing incorrect, mostly what I found was InstantCheckmate was missing information, lots of it. I started with going against the background checks I already had. Yeah BBB, that’s not how this should work. I ran a quick BBB search, discovered 276 complaints and an A+ BBB rating because they responded to these valid complaints mostly with “please call us”. So, 11 minutes to get to where you can pay for a month of reports ($36 if I remember correctly, nearly $80 for 3 months.) Went for it mostly because I’ve always been curious how InstantCheckmate got their money and what they provided and all I needed for this particular assignment was a location history (which I got.) I recognized this as a trick, but during one of the pages it warned me the person had weapons, which was most likely true due to previous security guard experience. In case you’re wondering what that last line refers to, go and check someone out on their site without logging in, it takes about 11 minutes in which you’re constantly warned that results will be shocking. I was looking for something simple, just a location history, and decided to try out InstantCheckmate after going through their 11 minute dog and pony show of a signup. I’ve been doing this for years and have a significant number of professionally generated reports already in my files I can check against. TL DR – probably don’t do it unless you’re just wanting to know the name of a neighbor.Ībout a month ago I needed to run a simple background check for one of my many jobs. I abandoned it and decided to focus on what was important. It got into detailing too many things and was significantly wordier than this was. A couple of weeks back I wrote an absurdly long article about InstantCheckmate and the 48 records I ran by detailing how every record save one had something aburdly wrong.
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