If you’ve ever had to contact customer support at amazon.com and wanted to do so by phone, you’ve probably run into the same roadblocks that I have. The number is nowhere to be found on the customer support pages.
One intrepid reporter, Timothy Noah of slate.com, managed to track it down by calling a corporate number he found on an investor relations page and asking the operator for customer service. Here’s the number he was given: 1-800-201-7575.
A blogger who goes by the handle “Not Martha” took a more conventional route and looked up amazon.com in the Seattle phone book. Here’s the number she found: 206-266-2992.
Thanks to Timothy and Not Martha, Christmas will be a little bit less frustrating for a whole lot of online shoppers.
Karl: I’ve used toll-free info (800-555-1212) to get their customer service number in the past. The experience wouldn’t make much of an article, though.
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Ty! Thanks for the comment. Just goes to show that sometimes the old-fashioned way is still the best way.