I am a man on a mission. A mission to be cheap.
I am a man on a mission. A mission to be cheap. You know what really fries my potatoes? When you try to contact a big business that should have a huge 1-800 number in blazing text all over their website, but you can’t, because they, like me, are cheap, and try to hide that number so that cheap people like me can’t call them for hours at a time on their dime and make them employ hundreds of tech support jockies to cater to my every whim. Yeah. That pretty much fries my potatoes.
And then the double whammy comes in when the only tech support number I can find is a long-distance one, and cheap as I am, I don’t have long-distance on my lad line, I use my cell phone for that, so that means that if I want to talk to a real person instead of waiting for an automated email response, I have to brave hours of waiting and burning through my cell phone minutes like I’m at a redneck bonfire, hoping that someone will pick up the line and resolve my problem before I have to hang up and wait until next month to call again. I can not afford to waste all those minutes. I am just too cheap. Do you ever feel like that? That’s why we’re friends, isn’t it. We understand each other.
That’s why below we’ve posted a list of wonderful, secret 800 numbers you might be interested in. You know, just on the off-chance that you have an issue you want to resolve, and you don’t want to have to pay while you wait to resolve it.
I like using my money and minutes for other things. You know, like talking to people I want to talk to. Not businesses that I have to talk to. You know, like businesses that unlawfully take away my domain name so the site is down the entire weekend. That’s why Monday’s show was a no-go. Thank you, AITdomains.com. Their 800 number was easy to find. Courteous customer service wasn’t.
But I digress. Free is free, and if you have any secret 800 numbers that you want us to post, put them down in the comments. And if an 800 number ever says to hang up and dial a different number to talk to exciting, new people, it’s probably not the company you were trying to reach. And dialing that number will likely cost you $3.99 a minute. And no phone call is worth that.
So you’re going to tell me my real future? Seriously? Can you tell me how to be outrageously successful and make all my dreams come true? Wait, how much a minute? No way! My dreams aren’t worth that.
Transcribed by: Erin S.
800 Numbers
Amazon.com
800-201-7575 (Toll free, US and Canada)
877-586-3230 (Canada only)
877-251-0696 (Seller Support)
866-348-2492 (Rebate Status)
206-266-2992 (International)
Ebay.com
888-749-3229
800-322-9266
408-376-7400
PayPal.com
888-215-5506
888-221-1161
Yahoo.com
408-349-3300
408-349-5151
866-785-2636 (yahoo! Publisher Network Support)
Microsoft.com
800-426-9400
800-936-5700
Not really secret but …
American Airlines; 1-800-433-7300
British Airways; 1-800-247-9297
Continental Airlines; 1-800-525-0280
Delta Airlines; 1-800-221-1212
JetBlue Airways; 1-800-538-2583
Midwest Airlines; 1-800-452-2022
Southwest Airlines; 1-800-435-9792
United Airlines; 1-800-241-6522
US Airways; 1-800-428-4322
Virgin Atlantic; 1-800-862-8621
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33 Comments
emjay
Another piece of cheap is to call 1-800-GOOG-411 and request the phone number of a business in another city -- ...HuTcH
For those who don't have a free 411 on thier cell phone 800 555 TELL is a great free number ...Christian Johnson
SquareTrade 1-800-649-5307Kevin
Disney doesn't even offer a 1-800 number.Bill Quimby
The situation you mention at the end of your video about being directed to another 800-400-TALK or whatever numbers they're ...Beta
Redneck bonfire?! Where the heck are you guys hanging out?Johnb300m
it's too bad the denary person to comment didn't call it out. way to drop the ball. also, the 800 number to ...Ingrid
Wowzie... I'm to late to make use of those. I came back to the dull and flat Netherlands this afternoon ...The Brothers Winn
@FrootLoopColorSorter Can't post it here. It's secret. So secret even we don't know about it. But there is a local number ...FrootLoopColorSorter [22]
What's the 1-800 number to [22]?FrootLoopColorSorter
LOL. That last part was funny. Your dreams are worth that-just not paying someone else for them. (Cue the inspirational ...andreacro
? i didnt post that twice...andreacro
@the first comment: Now you have to delete your comment because its Off Topic... And mine, couse its OT also :)andreacro
@the first comment: Now you have to delete your comment because its Off Topic... And mine, couse its OT also :)Mark F
In regards to my previous post, I should say the rating of the quality of customer service, not the phone ...Mark F
This is a pretty sweet site: http://www.gethuman.com/ It lists 800 numbers for thousands of businesses, PLUS the fastest way to get to ...Meandering
If you were to look at the older shows (I mean way older, like the first 4 months) you will ...Scott
Somewhere out there, there must be a pre-fab forum that automatically deletes any first post containing the word "first". ...kd
wow! i'm the sixteenth!!..... ok, well that wasn't as exciting as i thought i would beLook Behind You
another fantastic show!...thanksKiernan
Get godaddy.. I get all my domains on godaddy, easy to manage.. And if you need it, get a VPS ...Rabble of Redheads [22]
Nice one Brothers Winn. Now solve this: trying to call britian to resolve old bank issues. First you can't understand ...pkw
Thank goodness you're back. We hate it when you're on vacation. We go through withdrawls. And the ...brandon
to get contact information for free 1-800-free-411 1-800-3733-411Nospinplease
Thanks for all the phone numbers. Helpful! Why are you commenting on your own show? lol!steph
Thanks for the secret numbers im sure ill be coming back here and using those. great show again. Lol. That ...pkw
My mom likes to use 1-800-555-1212 to find toll free numbers for companies. It sounds like a fake number, ...Jayder
Thanks for this video by the way. Wish I could edit comments...Jayder
Because people can't think of anything else to say and they think it counts for something.CrazyDave
third...crap, now I did it too... http://www.anywho.com/tf.html is a site run by AT&T that has a 800 number lookup...pretty useful...Amy
Brothers Winn- I love that you too are cheap and germophobic. Overstock.com- They like to do live chats online but I find ...neil
secondThe Brothers Winn
First! Why do people write that? Wait ... why did I just write that?