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		<title>Mechanical Turk customer service email address</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2007 02:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Webb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wasted about an hour of my life today trying to find an email address for customer service at Amazon.com&#8217;s Mechanical Turk. The &#8220;contact us&#8221; form on mturk.com generates this auto response: Thanks for writing to us at Mechanical Turk.Please note: This is an automated response, but it contains information that should help answer your [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=robwebb2k.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1439842&#038;post=133&#038;subd=robwebb2k&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I wasted about an hour of my life today trying to find an email address for customer service at Amazon.com&#8217;s <a href="http://www.mturk.com/">Mechanical Turk</a>.  The &#8220;contact us&#8221; form on <a href="http://www.mturk.com/">mturk.com</a> generates this auto response:</p>
<p><span style="font-style:italic;">Thanks for writing to us at Mechanical Turk.</span><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">Please note: This is an automated response, but it contains information</span><span style="font-style:italic;"> that should help answer your questions. Please do not reply to this</span><span style="font-style:italic;"> e-mail, as we are not able to respond personally to messages sent to this</span><span style="font-style:italic;"> address.</span><span style="font-style:italic;">  To better serve you, we&#8217;ve made it easy to find answers and make changes</span><span style="font-style:italic;"> quickly and efficiently through our Web site. Why wait for an e-mail</span><span style="font-style:italic;"> response when you can:</span><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><br />Find the answers to your questions in our online Help pages.</span><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">    http://www.mturk.com/mturk/help?helpPage=main</span><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">View your account history, or make changes to your account.</span><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">    http://www.mturk.com/mturk/youraccount</span></p>
<p><span style="font-style:italic;">We hope you&#8217;ll find that your questions can be answered by using our</span><span style="font-style:italic;"> online resources. If you&#8217;ve explored these links but still need to get in</span><span style="font-style:italic;"> touch with us, you can find an e-mail form in our online Help department.</span><span style="font-style:italic;">  We appreciate your business and look forward to seeing you again soon at</span><span style="font-style:italic;"> Amazon.com.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-style:italic;">Sincerely,</span><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">Amazon.com Customer Service</span><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">http://www.mturk.amazon.com/</span></p>
<p>Note the line buried in the middle:  &#8220;If you&#8217;ve explored these links but still need to get in touch with us, you can find an e-mail form in our online Help department.&#8221;  There&#8217;s no link given for the Help department&#8230;possibly because it doesn&#8217;t exist on mturk.com.  To make matters worse, the central phone operators at Amazon have no idea what the Mechanical Turk is.</p>
<p>I eventually called a number I found on this site:  <a href="http://clicheideas.com/amazon.htm">Looking for the Amazon.com customer service phone number?</a>  I was finally able to speak to someone who looked up Mechanical Turk in their directory and gave me this email address:     contactus@mturk.com</p>
<p>I haven&#8217;t gotten a response yet and maybe I never will, but at least I was able to get the satisfaction of sending the message into the abyss.  The site above has the Paypal, e-Bay, Yahoo, and Netflix customer service numbers as well.  They should start running some ads some ads!</p>
<p>________________________________<br />Edit:  Boooo.  I just got this, although it seems that there is a glimmer of hope that they may reply to the message I sent using their form:</p>
<p>This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.  Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:   contactus@mturk.com<br />Technical details of permanent failure:<br />TEMP_FAILURE: Could not initiate SMTP conversation with any hosts:<br />[mturk.com (1): Connection timed out]</p>
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