How do I talk to a live human at Scientific American?
A:Don't press anything, just hold on the line for a representative.Our free phone can also navigate phone menus to get a live human at Scientific American for you.
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Does Scientific American offer 24 hour customer service?
A:Not at this number; hours here are Mon-Fri 10am-6pm EST.The least busy day is Wednesday, and the most busy day is Monday.If the call center is closed, you can schedule a call.
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How long will I wait on hold?
A:The average hold time is 2 minutes.The longest hold times are on Tuesday, and the shortest are on Wednesday.You can skip the hold time for free.
How do I get through the phone menu to a live person?
Consider using our free service that calls and talks to customer service for you, then sends you a report. Or use our free service that waits on hold and tells you when a human rep is on the line. But if those options don't appeal to you, our team has also documented the phone menu for Scientific American below.
Our AI powered phone can dial, navigate the phone menu, wait on hold, and even talk to customer service for you, for free. You don't even need to learn about the path through the various phone options.
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GetHuman researchers routinely call this Scientific American phone number to document the phone system.
Here is how our research team describes the way the Scientific American phone system greets you: For quality assurance purposes, this call may be monitored or recorded. Please hold in. The next available representative will handle your call.
Here is our latest tip for weaving through the phone menu to get to a real person the fastest:Don't press anything, just hold on the line for a representative.
What are the hours and when should I call?
Scientific American operates the call center for this 800-333-1199 phone number Mon-Fri 10am-6pm ET.The short answer is that you should call on a Wednesday.This observation and the following section are based on analysis of a sample set of 9 calls made in the last 90 days using our free, web-based phone (see above).
When you use our free AI-powered phone to call and talk, wait on hold, or navigate for you, it will automatically wait until the Scientific American call center opens before trying to call. It will ask your permission before it places the call, so you can also further delay that scheduled call until you are ready. But that means you can "set it and forget it" ahead of time.
An important note: busy times vs hold times vs best time to call
When we refer to busy or less busy times, we are talking about the volume of calls. The busiest times are when the most people are calling this Scientific American phone number (least busy times have fewer people calling). This high call volume does not necessarily mean that you will have a long hold time when you call. Companies like Scientific American staff their call centers differently based on the time of day and day of the week, so you may experience a shorter wait on hold at the busiest of times. When we refer to the best time to call, we are referring to the optimal combination of lower call volume and shorter wait times.
The least busy time to call
The least busy day to call Scientific American is Wednesday.The most busy day to call is Monday.Again, this is based on a sample of 9 calls made with our AI-powered, web-based phone in the last 90 days.
The shortest wait on hold
We measured the shortest hold times to be on Wednesday.The longest wait in the queue on average occurs on Tuesday.
In summation, the best day to call Scientific American is Wednesday.In this case, it's a no-brainer. Wednesday is not only the least busy day for calling this Scientific American number, but it is also the day with the shortest hold times.
More Scientific American Customer Service Contacts
There are of course other ways to contact Scientific American customer service besides the phone. Below we list the best ones, by medium.
Use this link or copy and paste it to send customer service an email
Corresponding with a customer service department by email may not be your first choice, especially if your issue is urgent or time-sensitive. But email is a nearly ubiquitous form of communication, and Scientific American will reply our your email.
Scientific American Customer Help Desk / Web Support
Use this link to find customer service help through their website
As a last, sometimes only, resort- Scientific American customer service can be accessed through their website. This can entail digging through help articles before finding a form and "being allowed" to submit a problem to their team, and rarely leads to a real-time conversation, which is why GetHuman does not recommend this unless it's the only way.
Conclusion and closing notes
This is Scientific American's best phone number, the real-time current wait on hold and tools for skipping right through those phone lines to get right to a Scientific American agent. This phone number is Scientific American's best phone number because 54 customers like you used this contact information over the last 18 months and gave us feedback. Common problems addressed by the customer care unit that answers calls to 800-333-1199 include and other customer service issues. Rather than trying to call Scientific American first, consider describing your issue first; from that we may be able to recommend an optimal way to contact them via phone or email or web. In total, Scientific American has 1 phone number. It's not always clear what is the best way to talk to Scientific American representatives, so we started compiling this information built from suggestions from the customer community. Please keep sharing your experiences so we can continue to improve this free resource.
GetHuman does not provide call center services or customer support operations for Scientific American. The two organizations are not related. GetHuman builds free tools and shares information to help customers of companies like Scientific American. For large companies that includes tools such as our GetHuman Phone, which allows you to call a company but skip the part where you wait on the line to get a live human rep. We continue to work on these tools to help customers like you (and ourselves!) navigate the messy phone menus, hold times, and confusion with customer service. As long as you keep sharing it with your friends and loved ones, we'll keep doing it.