Customer Reviews

Select Phone 2001 Edition

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The quality of this publishers product line has declined dramatically. The Pro CD and Info USA line used to be invaluable to our firm and the previously easy to use database marketing tools now have limits and features rendering them essentially useless. Info USA's 2001 YellowPages main menu is now a clunking wanna-be web browser designed to push users to their web site rather than aid consumers in using the data contained on the CD; the one purchased! Anyone with info on another publishers product please let me know asap c/o ExAir@GTE.net

When researching new clients, we used to work with the 1998 version. It allowed the sorting of potential clients but it also permitted the printing of labels to send promotional material. This new version limits the ability to export the data or print labels. Also, it will not allow you to purchase only the segment of the country you use most often. Furthermore, their service, technical support and sales team is horrendous. They are so busy selling you labels for 8 cents a piece that forget to customize the service to the clien't needs. Not worth for small businesses who want to target customers other than by phone.

You can only access 1000 records and then you have to pay more to get more. This is a terrible rip-off. Feel free to contact me on e-mail and I will tell you more. Just don't buy it and you will be happy. This is not the good stuff they had two years ago!

This program is a good program for researching phone numbers by category or just a listing with one big exception. You are limited by the number of time you can use it. No one tells you this, it just suddenly don't work. Forcing you to call USA info, then being told you will have to pay for additional usage.

They will allow you limited usage free but, you'll soon ran out of that, then you PAY!

SAVE YOURSELF THE MONEY--Do not purchase this software unless you ONLY want to use it for reference. If you intend to use it to print mailing labels, or even to print any type of list, you are only allowed to print 1,000 names, then you will be forced to purchase additional names @ 10 cents per name; or as was quoted to me I could purchase 25,000 names for $1,000. If I had wanted to spend $1,000 for mailing labels, I wouldn't have paid $65 for this software.

Apparently Info USA has bought out Select Phone and now has the retail telephone directory market virtually to itself. It's greed and monopolistic attempt in controlling this segment of the market has resulted in the transformation of this product into a definite "Do not Buy". Too bad there isn't a zero star level because that is the rating this product and Info USA deserves.

I used to love ProCD products, but since InfoUSA bought ProCD the pricing and quality of the products are awful. I really hope another company emerges to compete with InfoUSA.

I have Pro-cd select phone 1997, I thought I would like to have a later edition, so I purchased Pro-cd select phone 2001. What a let down, nothing like the earlier edition, this one must have been written by someone who wrote programs for free, well Pro-cd sure got their moneys worth. Save your money get all phone books from all the states takes more time to look up but at least it would be hassel free.I would advise everyone to by pass this program.

It willonly let you export 1000 names for printing purposes then they want you to pay annualy for limited information. Do not buy this product. ...

In my past life, I used the phone disc power finder in my research efforts back in 1997-1998 and found them to be the best business productivity tools on the market. The "superman" of market research products. Upon using the latest versions of the phone disc, I find myself in some "bizarro" world and left utterly speechless. In a span of 2 years, they have destroyed what was once an essential business tool. While, the basic setup is essentially the same, they now limit mass exports to other software programs forcing you to buy more export privilege. I for one am outraged not necessarily at the fact that I have to pay more to export listings, but that infousa can get away with this bs. Anyone know of any alternative vendors..give me a ring..please.