do you have a flasher mac and a torch?
if so i have plenty of disappearing debtors you can trace for me, client has said up to £1,000 each, plus expenses.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 7 Oct 2010, 10:36, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

How many and how good is the info you've already got?
hmmm, should I have a licence before I do that sort of thing.
(PsychoChomp, Thu 7 Oct 2010, 10:38, Reply)

If Totach is anything to go by,
you'd be a fool to pass up £1000 for five minutes' work.
(LongJohnBaldry, Thu 7 Oct 2010, 10:39, Reply)

Not everyone's as stupid as the lovely Totach
but it would basically involve going round a bunch of websites and paying £5-£10 each for credit data, electral role stuff, land registry info, company house info.
Just a bit of legwork definatly worth £1k.
(PsychoChomp, Thu 7 Oct 2010, 10:44, Reply)

I'm quite interested in this.

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Thu 7 Oct 2010, 10:45, Reply)

this tits
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Thu 7 Oct 2010, 10:46, Reply)

I like breasts.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 7 Oct 2010, 10:48, Reply)

Well hello there!

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Thu 7 Oct 2010, 10:48, Reply)

I'll look into it and see if there's any major hurdles.
Honestly though, I had to do the same thing for my letting agent and it took me just over an hour.
(PsychoChomp, Thu 7 Oct 2010, 10:48, Reply)

I've always been adept at searching.
I thought of setting up a text answering service about three years before these existing ones started. Plus, for that kind of money, travel expenses to go fishing around someone's locality aren't out of the question either.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Thu 7 Oct 2010, 10:56, Reply)

yes
for my clients you would, i tend to use people who are members of the british association of private investigators.

but as a second career, at £250-upwards a search most of which they do on companies house or the land registry anyway, you could earn a lot.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 7 Oct 2010, 10:43, Reply)

Hmm, that's £165 a year to become affilliated.
I'll have to read the policy here about second incomes and think about it.
(PsychoChomp, Thu 7 Oct 2010, 10:47, Reply)

you wouldn't have to be affiliated as a requirement of law
but if you wanted to pimp yourself out to law firms etc, it would be a useful selling point. our guys do everything from online tracing to actual physical stalking, then they just prepare brief reports. they also serve papers on people - money for jam that is. wait outside their front door. give them an envelope. submit a bill for £250.

i guess it's something you could research with a view to learning more about it - if it worked out well, it would rapidly become primary not secondary income anyway.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 7 Oct 2010, 10:59, Reply)