Winnie Murugi
Winnie Murugi
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Amazon.com has grown to become the biggest e-commerce retailer in the world. According to Statista.com, 206 million people shop on the website every month.  The wide range of products, competitive prices, and convenience are some of the factors that make Amazon a go-to online shopping platform. While consumers enjoy buying from them, there are many of those who wish to know how to call Amazon customer service.

Amazon Q&A

Number of Amazon reviews – 43K

Amazon rating*– 2.6⭐⭐⭐

Claimed losses – $21.3M

Successful calls – 14%/800K

Number of resolved issues – 353

In the recent past, there have been numerous complaints regarding Amazon customer support on PissedConsumer. This article explores the best and easiest ways how to contact Amazon customer service. It also addresses the following top consumer questions:

  1. Is Amazon customer service good?
  2. How to call Amazon customer service by phone?
  3. How to contact them via social networks?
  4. How to contact an Amazon seller?
  5. How to contact them via the help page?

1. Is Amazon Customer Service Good?

Amazon.com positions itself as a customer-centric e-commerce platform that is committed to operational excellence, invention, and long-term thinking. While many customers have had a great experience shopping and selling on the platform, others have reported their disappointment with the service and failed to contact Amazon customer service.

According to PissedConsumer.com reviews, the top Amazon customer support complaints are in regards to:

  • Difficulty getting through to Amazon support.
  • Rude delivery staff.
  • Being put on hold for extended periods when customers called Amazon 24/7 customer service number.
  • Mishandling of products by delivery men.
  • Items that are out-of-stock are listed as available.

Other common Amazon complaints include:

  • Poor quality or defective products.
  • Being overcharged especially on the Amazon prime membership.
  • Wrongful billing on orders.
  • Delivery of the wrong items.
  • Unexplained change in delivery dates.
  • Difficulty returning items and getting refunds even after contacting Amazon customer service.

These complaints seem to come up across the various company portals, including Amazon.com, Amazon India, and Amazon UK. For instance, in one Amazon review on PissedConsumer, the customer complained that the company was delivering refurbished goods that were defective and positioning them as new products. On five occasions, the customer received defective vacuum cleaners until she decided that was enough and asked Amazon customer support for a refund.

While Amazon.com refunded her, she expressed her disappointment in the company for selling low-quality products to customers online.

5 times and two different sellers (two different brands) delivered defective/broken machine. Amazon india runs a scam of selling products that are not genuine to consumers online

That said, Amazon ratings vary across different review platforms. On PissedConsumer, the rating is 2.7 stars, Glass Door gives it 3.8 stars, and the majority of Amazon reviews on BBB have a 1-star rating.

Amazon Pros 

  • Fast delivery 
  • Convenience
  • Variety of products
  • Affordable prices

Amazon Cons

  • Lack of customer service
  • Return and cancelation issues
  • Poor quality control
  • Long time to resolve issues

2. How to Call Amazon Customer Service by Phone?

As evidenced in numerous reviews on PissedConsumer, customers would like to know the Amazon 24/7 customer service number. The challenge that most people experience is finding the right Amazon contact details to call or being put on hold for too long. Yet, some issues are easier resolved by talking to a real person. You may find more information on how to contact Amazon customer service in this video.

There are different Amazon customer service numbers depending on your location and the issue at hand as follows:

  • Toll-free number: (866) 216 -1075
  • For legal issues: (206) 266 – 4064
  • For payment issues: (866) 216 -1075

To find the Amazon 24/7 customer service number to call, visit the company’s help center, scroll down on the page, and click on “Contact Us”. 

Amazon contact us

Select a category under which your issue falls. You will be prompted to provide more details about the issue by choosing even more categories from the drop-down menus. Scroll down to the “talk to someone” segment and click on “phone”.

Provide your country and phone number. If your country is on their drop-down list, you might be asked to specify your number for an Amazon customer service representative to call you. Otherwise, the company will provide you with an Amazon number to call.

Before you contact Amazon customer support, ensure to have all the information about your account at hand including your full name, address, credit card information, and details about your last purchase. In addition, the Amazon customer support representative will send a verification code to your phone at the start of the call and you will be required to confirm the code.

3. How to Contact Amazon Customer Service Via Social Networks?

Most international companies are quick to respond to their customers via social media pages. That is the case for Amazon.com. The Amazon support representatives can be reached through various social media pages. This includes @Amazonhelp on Twitter or by direct messaging to them on the Amazon Facebook and Instagram pages. 

The Amazon customer service chats on Twitter reveal that on this social media platform customers get responses promptly. So, if you don’t know how to call Amazon 24/7 support, you can either tweet or direct message on their page. If the issue involves providing your personal information, it is best to directly message the Amazon Help Twitter page to avoid exposing your information to scammers.

Amazon Help twitter post

As for Facebook, it is not clear whether Amazon customer service responds promptly since you can only direct message them. The other option for contacting Amazon customer service is to send them an email. The main Amazon customer service email address is: ecr-replies@amazon.com.

According to some reviews on PissedConsumer, customers indicated that they didn’t get a response to their Amazon customer service email. Hence one of the consumer FAQs is “which is the best Amazon email address to write to?” One reviewer indicated that they got a prompt response when they reached out to the company via the jeff@amazon.com Amazon email address.

If you are looking for immediate assistance on your issue, it is best to contact via Amazon phone number or reach out via the @AmazonHelp Twitter page.

4. How to Contact Amazon Seller?

Customers often wonder how to call Amazon sellers. Whether you want to enquire about a product, change your order, or provide feedback, there are three main ways to contact a seller on Amazon.

  1. Through the “sold by…” link

The platform provides the name of the seller under the product description. If you click on the “sold by…” link, it will offer you an option to ask a question. You will be probed about whether you are enquiring about a product you have already ordered or otherwise. Then, you will choose a subject category and provide details about your question or issue.

When contacting a seller using this method, your question or message goes directly to Amazon support, and then the company forwards it to the seller. The company does not reveal your personal information to the seller. It takes up to 3 business days for the seller to respond.

  1. Through your order page

You can seek assistance from the seller for products already ordered through the “your orders” page. To do so, log in to your account and go to the “your orders” page. Click on the order that you would like to contact its Amazon seller. On the right side, you will be presented with several options including a “problem with order” or “get help with order”.  Click on it and follow the prompts to provide details about your issue.

  1. Through the Amazon review

If you already received your order and you would like to give the seller feedback, you can do so by writing a review and rating the product.

With that said, some Amazon complaints indicate that customers did not get a response or their issues resolved by the seller.  In such a case, it is best to contact Amazon customer support directly. To speak to a person at Amazon 24/7 support, call the appropriate phone number. 

5. How to Contact Amazon Customer Service via the Help Page?

The website's "Help" page is the starting point for contacting Amazon customer service. On the page, you are provided with 9 categories to choose from including:

  • A delivery, order, or return;
  • Prime Membership;
  • Payment, charges, or gift cards;
  • Login, address, security & privacy;
  • Memberships, subscriptions or communications;
  • Kindle, Fire or Alexa device;
  • eBooks, Prime Videos or Music;
  • Accessibility;
  • Something else.

Once you choose the category you need help with, you will be prompted to provide further details about the issue by selecting from the provided drop-down menu. Amazon.com then provides you with relevant information in regards to the issue and some ways you can resolve the matter. They then proceed to offer you an option to talk to Amazon customer service by email, phone, or chat.

Amazon Help Page

If you click on the email option, you will be provided with a window where you can specify details about the issue. Once you send the Amazon email, you should get a response within 12 hours.

If you select the live chat option, you will be led to Amazon customer service live chat when a representative will be available for you to chat with. For the Amazon phone option, you will either be provided with a phone number to call or you will be asked to provide your phone number for a company representative to give you a call.

Finally, the company has a comprehensive help center that contains articles on the most common customer issues and answers to the top Amazon FAQs.

Some customers find the process of contacting Amazon 24/7 support representatives too complicated. Consumer complaints indicate that you have to go through numerous steps before being able to get in touch with a real person.

The company offers various ways to get in touch with its customer service team, including Amazon customer service email, live chat, phone, and social media pages. Besides, the help center provides comprehensive information on the most common customer issues and Amazon FAQs. With that said, customers have reported experiencing difficulty in speaking to a real person both on the phone and in the Amazon customer service live chat.

How has your experience with Amazon customer service been? You are welcome to share your opinion by writing a review on PissedConsumer.com.

*The company ratings on the PissedConsumer website are calculated using a mathematical algorithm that evaluates the information in the company’s profile. The algorithm parameters are: users’ rating, the number of resolved issues, the number of company responses and more. The PissedConsumer algorithm is also subject to change in the future.

Legal disclaimers:

  1. While every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of this publication, it is not intended to provide any legal, medical, accounting, investment or any other professional advice as individual cases may vary and should be discussed with a corresponding expert and/or an attorney.
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Kevin Bryniarski #5592
I have been trying for over 2 months to get a refund to 2 items that have been returned get nowhere with customer service wasted my time many times on the phone on hold and then it disconnect or get nowhere again and again
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Charles #5644
I have been trying to get in touch with somebody who has the authority to go into the computer and kill a count that was never set up by me I have no idea who did it or why but I can honestly tell you Pearl who works at Amazon I wouldn't trust that woman with anything because she kept asking for me to put a card number on so that I could talk to somebody on a secured line what isn't that something she couldn't just put me through because I don't have a card anymore and I told her that but yet she's still too stupid to understand that anyway Pearl Wilson I hope that you'll actually use your brain because all I needed was somebody to verify that somebody was using my identity to purchase things but in everyday because you didn't care well I bet you'll care when you're staring at the judge and yes yes you see you have no idea but anybody can sue anybody for anything I think I'll see you for defamation of character let's see there's a few other things that I could have you I could sue you for yeah I think I will too just to show you that I can and show your boss that I can I've asked you and you still want me to put in a dollar so that I I don't have a card to do that with I told you that several times but you say you're too stupid to be able to read that I don't have a car to do that with so I hope that you get this because all I need is somebody to verify that three different locations or four different locations or how many ever locations somebody's using my information to try to buy things from Amazon
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Anthony #6416
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XweAponX #5744
Maybe I am one of the lucky ones.For several months I had a weekly order for a peppermint flavored coffee product, these things are seasonal, so I considered myself lucky to continuously find them available even as recent as two months ago. I would order them once a week and they would always be delivered within six hours. It was always listed as “two packages of 6 Kpods each”, meaning the whole order would be 12 K pods. I ordered these every week until there were finally no more available.The product is not handled by any one particular seller, it is handled by whoever is fulfilling the order for Amazon. I think this is something that a lot of people do not understand, sometimes, you are purchasing from a seller. Other times, you are purchasing from Amazon and they use different sellers to fulfill the sale.So out of maybe 10 orders for the same coffee product, I had one shipment where instead of the two boxes that were promised, I only received one box. Amazingly, I was able to file a complaint for the wrong amount of product shipped and I was able to speak online to a very good customer service representative who as well as giving me a full refund for that order, she promised me that it would never happen again, and it never happened again. I made approximately three more orders after that.Mainly what has protected me is that I pay attention to the product page and I try to stay away from products that will be going through fulfillment centers. Unfortunately that cannot be done all the time, so when you are dealing with a fulfillment center, you just have to change your language when you report an improper shipment. Because you will speak to one fulfillment center one week, and they will probably resolve your issue, but the next week, it will be somebody totally different. so I simply had to streamline my style of complaints so that I was able to prove that I was promised two boxes, not one. I kept a screenshot of the original offer and I also copy the link to the latest offer, so that the Amazon person I was speaking to could understand that I was indeed, supposed to receive two boxes. The price for this particular product floated between $11 and $25 during the time that I was ordering. On the day when they shipped me only one box, I had the whole issue resolved in less than half an hour.There are also other variations of this issue, for instance you are ordering from Amazon fresh and you have agreed to let them substitute. If you allow substitutions, they will not ship you anything even closely related to what you ordered. For example, I ordered eggnog toward the end of the season, and Amazon fresh was showing indeed, this was in stock. but it was not in stock so instead of sending me the eggnog, they shipped me two boxes of macadamia nut milk. Which to me, was utterly amazing and that was the only time when I ever expressed dissatisfaction with the quality of substitution. After that incident, I have never allowed substitutes.Now the problem with thus is that sometimes you are not purchasing through Amazon fresh, you are purchasing through a seller and so what they have listed is what they allegedly have. But, if they are fulfilling the orders through fulfillment centers, sometimes some of these fulfillment centers will provide a substitute even though there should have not been a substitute. I don’t know if that makes any sense but I had ordered the same coffee product through a different seller and what I received was a totally different flavor. I had no trouble receiving a refund for that order as well.
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Vivek Pokhare #5755
I am very unhappy with Amazon service. I used it for the first time and facg
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Vivek Pokhare #5756
My first experience with Amazon is autrocious the items that ordered are getting. delays for lousy reasons. There is no customer care number where we can explain our problem
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Norman Smith #5814
My electric stove was shipped with no legs to set it up with I’ve tried to contact customer support customer service absolutely nobody answers the phone!!!!!!??????
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Troy66 #5824
I am tired of calling customer service with issues an I can't understand their representatives. Every time that I call they have me talk to a person from another country an with their heavy accents. I have asked to talk to someone that I can understand they disconnect the call. I called 5 times within 10 minutes an each time they disconnected the call. I called the corporate office and they said that I had to call the same people that I get disconnected from to file a complaint. It made both sense since they are the reason for the complaint. I canceled everything that I had with Amazon accept for the basic account only because I use their Firestick. I haven't even received an apology or heard anything from Amazon. I remember when companies actually care about their customers instead of just caring about their profits.
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Iris Spiegel #5844
I ordered an item on Amazon and for some reason my card has been declined. How can I have someone all me to place my order?
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Kanhaiya Verma #5898
Refund on order 408-6542746-1845959not effected. Company not responding
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Frank white #5952
Despite repeated attempts to get refunds back, we have yet to be reimbursed for several costly items. One laserjet printer costing 1,594.99 AED; Seimens Front loader washer at 1,580.88 AED and a couple less costly items. Despite numerous attempts to get refunds we have yet to see one coin!! Who can fix this idiocy and help us get our refunds!!
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Patricia Binns #5989
I am trying to return a package, my last purchase but I need a Printer to print the label, but have no printer, so please someone tell me our I get my money back.My worst experience ever with Amazon really PissedTrisha
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Kumar #5997
I have ordered one shirt but delivered different one then immediately returned that order in Amazon app then it's initiated a return that order from Amazon.After 2 days amazon representative called to collect that order that time I was in important meeting so am unable answer the call.Then Amazon agent given a comment as "Return pickup failed due to price tag missing" this is not good and am not expecting this from Amazon.I have a price tag, cover as per Amazon Return policy and still am waiting for your agent call to return my product.I hope you got my point.
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Hari kumar vs #6121
Today I recharge my bsnl number 9496097629 plan voucher 199, but I don't get it. What can I do?
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G Laxmi Sahitya #6221
Ordered cervical collar for spondylitis on AMAZON. It should reduce neck pain but the product caused more pain. Reached out to support and they refused to help and said you can keep the product. Like even if the product causes medical issues they won't care. frustrated and disappointed with service.
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Iram Khan #6320
Amazon had send a mail that my parcel is delivered...But I haven't recieved it yet.....Please help me track my package at earliest convenience!!!!
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Haris Ahmed #6349
Today was my account verification for Amazon at 09:00 am PST dated 21st October 2022. It's 25 minutes passed since I'm on video call but there's no Amazon associate
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Brandi #6518
I ordered a tablet it came broken the worker had me use UPS because there was no QR code so he could give it to me he told me to go ahead and use ups and he would leave a note and make sure I got my 799 back and now I am not getting anything and getting hung up on and being treated really crappy and I have been a customer for over 6 years I want my 799
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Sandra burke #6519
Took 3 month free unlimited music, I thought I canceled it but still getting billed monthly
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tanya funk #6530
our delivery driver delivered a package, instead of getting out to put on porch, the packages were thrown from the truck. i really didnt appreciate this
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Abdul #6533
My money are not refundable
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