DataMan Group is a direct-marketing list broker selling new-homeowner, new-mover, mortgage, cell-phone and specialty consumer lists, and it is one of the very few in the category that prints its own bad-number rate: its cell phone list page tells buyers to expect anywhere between 15–20% disconnected or wrong numbers. Most alternatives pages have to reverse engineer that figure out of a vendor’s silence. This one does not, which makes it a more useful page and DataMan Group a more honest vendor than its search ranking suggests.
What follows is a read of what DataMan Group publishes, aimed at a call center deciding whether a new-homeowner file belongs on its dialer. Everything is quoted as publicly advertised on 22 September 2026. We did not buy a list or call the company.
Disclosure: Scout Data is our product and we sell homeowner phone files to call centers. Treat that entry as a maker’s pitch and the rest as our honest read of DataMan Group’s public pages.
The trade DataMan Group prints on its own page
The new-homeowner product is built around speed. Daily new-homeowner data is available just two days after deed filing; the file is described as mailable, verified addresses with no renters or duplicates; and it is sold as daily, weekly or monthly fresh leads, with non-duplicating subscriptions at each cadence. The universe behind it is given as more than four million new homeowners who buy homes each year.
Then comes the sentence that decides whether this is a dial file: phone numbers and email addresses can be appended to the list as an after-market process, and are not on the standard file — because, in the vendor’s own words, the data is so new. Read those two facts together and you have the honest shape of the whole new-mover category:
- Two days after the deed, the address is right and the phone is missing. Nobody has had time to associate a number with that person at that address yet.
- By the time a phone can be matched, the file is no longer two days old. The append is a separate step that happens after the thing you paid a premium for has aged.
- So a new-mover dial file is always a compromise between the two, and the only question worth asking any vendor in this segment is where on that curve their file sits and what the match rate was at that point.
That is not a criticism of DataMan Group. It is the physics of the segment, and DataMan Group is unusual in laying it out rather than selling around it. The wider version of the problem — what a new-mover trigger actually is, which record it lands on first, and how long the window stays open — is in how to find new movers, and the closely related question of buying on a recorded sale rather than a mover trigger is in how to find recently sold homes.
What 15–20% does to a dialer day
Take the vendor at its word and do the arithmetic it invites. If 15–20% of a cell file is disconnected or wrong, then between 80% and 85% of what you bought is usable, and the real cost per usable row is between about 18% and 25% above the sticker. On a 25,000-record order, 3,750 to 5,000 rows are expected to fail before an agent says a word. Any comparison against another vendor that ignores that gap is comparing stickers rather than files.
One caution on comparing that number to anybody else’s, ours included. DataMan Group’s 15–20% is a share of the records in a file. The figure we publish — 3.40% of 14,741 agent-tagged calls tagged as a wrong or dead number, on three 25,000-record files a Bay Area solar floor dialed between 31 August and 18 September 2026 — is a share of tagged calls, which is a different denominator: agents only tag what they hear, and a record that never reaches a human is never tagged at all. The two numbers are not directly comparable and we are not going to pretend they are. The comparable measure is a per-record read of a delivered file on your own dialer, at the same attempt depth, on both vendors at once — the protocol is in free lead samples: how to test a vendor, and the four different things a vendor can mean by a match rate are in what a phone match rate means.
The other thing DataMan Group prints on that page is the compliance rule, and it prints it correctly: federal law prohibits calls to cellphones using automatic dialers or prerecorded messages regardless of registry status, with an exception only where the recipient has given written permission. That sentence applies to every purchased cell file in the market, and it is the one most vendor sites leave out. TCPA-compliant homeowner leads covers what a floor can and cannot do with a bought number.
The guarantee has a unit, and the unit is postal
DataMan Group’s FAQ is explicit about what it stands behind: “we do guarantee the accuracy of our postal data,” at these tiers, with names replaced when the nixie rate runs above the guarantee.
| List type | Published guarantee |
|---|---|
| Consumer mailing lists | 95+% deliverability / accuracy |
| New homeowner mailing lists | 95+% deliverability / accuracy |
| New mover mailing lists | 95+% deliverability / accuracy |
| Business mailing lists | 90+% deliverability / accuracy |
| Remedy | Names replaced when the nixie rate exceeds the guarantee |
| Cell phone lists | No guarantee printed; 15–20% bad numbers stated instead |
Pricing and claims on this page are as publicly advertised at the time of writing — confirm current pricing with each vendor, and with our sales team for Scout Data.
Note what the last row does. The guarantee stops exactly where the product stops being postal, and DataMan Group replaces it with a stated expectation instead of a promise. That is internally consistent and fairly rare. A nixie rate is measurable by the post office; a wrong-party connect rate is measurable only on your dialer, and a vendor cannot promise against a number it will never see. The right response is not to demand a phone guarantee nobody can honour. It is to measure the rate yourself on a sample and make it a term of the next order.
On do-not-call, the FAQ says DataMan Group provides do-not-call compliant telemarketing lists, and defines the term usefully: a list compared against the national registry with registered numbers removed or flagged. Both halves of that definition exist in the market, and “flagged” is not “removed.” Ask which one applies to your file and on what date it was run; the 31-day obligation sits with the caller either way, as laid out in DNC scrubbing for roofing and HVAC.
What a DataMan Group row carries
The most informative page on the site for a home-services buyer is the homeowner X-date list, because it prints its field list: home owner name, address, city, state and ZIP, telephone numbers where available, home purchase date, home value, home square footage, year built, county name, and email address where available. It is sorted by X-date month so an insurance agent can work renewals in sequence, it describes its telephone numbers as scrubbed, geography selects down to ZIP, city, county or state, no subscription is required, and minimum orders start at just $185.
Two phrases in that list are the ones to carry into a quote call. “Where available” is doing real work — it is an honest way of saying the phone is a coverage question rather than a guarantee, which is the same thing the new-homeowner page says about appends. And the property fields — purchase date, value, square footage, year built — are county-derived facts about the house, which is exactly the raw material a home-services opener is built from. What a floor usually finds missing from a list like this is the permit history: when the roof was last pulled, whether a solar system was ever filed. Those live on the same county record and are what turn an address into a reason to call it today.
Alternatives, by what you are dialing
- You want the new-mover trigger, at volume. Compiled consumer files sell a new-mover select at scale with phones already on the row — older data, better coverage. Data Axle alternatives maps the largest of them and, importantly, which shortlist names turn out to be the same company.
- You already have the addresses. If you are buying a DataMan Group file for the addresses and appending phones anyway, the append is the product and should be priced as one — skip tracing vs data append explains which of the two you are actually buying and why they price differently.
- You want the printed price before the phone call. Exact Data alternatives reads a catalogue that prints a cost per lead on every list page, and what its guarantee does and does not commit to.
- You want a dial file keyed on the house. The owner on title, a mobile matched to that owner, a dated scrub, and the permit and roof facts the opener uses — that is the category Scout Data sells into, set out for buyers in homeowner phone lists for call centers.
Whichever way you go, keep DataMan Group’s habit. A vendor willing to print “15–20% disconnected or wrong” on its own sales page has told you more than a competitor advertising 95% accuracy without saying what the 95% counts, and it has given you a number to hold it to.
Wrong-number figures are from our benchmarks page, each with its sample and month.
Frequently asked questions
Do DataMan Group new homeowner lists come with phone numbers?
Not on the standard list. DataMan Group’s own new-homeowner pages say the list is mailable, verified addresses with no renters or duplicates, and that phone numbers and email addresses can be appended to the file as an after-market process — explicitly because the data is so new. That is the trade stated plainly by the vendor: the file reaches you about two days after deed filing, and at two days after deed filing a phone matched to that buyer at that address mostly does not exist yet. If you need a dial file, the append is a second step with its own cost and its own match rate.
How accurate are DataMan Group cell phone lists?
DataMan Group tells you itself: its cell phone list page says “you should expect anywhere between 15-20% disconnected or wrong numbers,” as published on 22 September 2026. Almost no broker in this category prints that figure, and a buyer should treat the candour as a reason to take the vendor seriously rather than as a reason to walk. Priced honestly, it means a row costs between about 18% and 25% more per usable row than the sticker, before a single dial is placed.
Can I use an autodialer on a purchased cell phone list?
DataMan Group’s own cell phone page states the rule: federal law prohibits calls to cellphones using automatic dialers or prerecorded messages, regardless of whether the cellphone is listed on the national Do-Not-Call Registry, with an exception where the recipient has given written permission on paper or by email. A purchased list does not carry that permission. This is not a DataMan Group limitation — it applies to every purchased cell file from every vendor — and it is the single most consequential sentence on any list broker’s site. Take your own legal advice; nothing here is legal advice.
What is DataMan Group’s minimum order?
Its homeowner X-date page prints “minimum orders start at just $185,” as advertised on 22 September 2026, and says agents can order lists as needed for a specific ZIP code, city, county or market area without a subscription. Per-record and per-thousand rates are not printed on the pages Scout Data read; counts and prices are run through a request form or over the phone. Most list pages also offer non-duplicating daily, weekly and monthly subscriptions as an alternative to one-off orders.