Costco Phone Number

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  • Calls Costco's Customer Service department
  • The average hold time is 12m
  • Hours are Mon-Fri 6am-6pm, Sat-Sun 8am-5pm PST
  • The best time to call is 8:30am
  • Popular issues for this call center: Store Feedback, Membership Question, Renew Membership, Refund a Charge, and Missing Order.
  • Reach a live Costco agent: Press 0
  • What you hear when you call: Membership, rewards & services information, press 1. City visa and payment options accepted, press 2. Orders, returns, and all other website inquiries, press 3. Warehouse product and returns info, Costco business hours & address, press 4. Costco travel, press 5. Shop card questions, press 6.

What to expect when you call

Heard when the phone system first answers
"Thank you for calling Costco Wholesale. For information including membership, executive two percent rewards, and Costco services, press one. For information on the Costco City Visa, Costco shop card, and payment options accepted at Costco, press two."
Excerpt from a call with Costco
Friday, January 12, 2024 6:06 PM
They may ask you to enter information with the dial pad
"Thank you for calling Costco Wholesale. For information including membership, executive two percent rewards, and Costco services, press one. For information on the Costco city Visa, Costco shop card, and payment options accepted at Costco, press two. For Costco dot com orders, in order to better assist you, please have your membership number ready.
Member numbers are located on the back of either your membership card your Costco city Visa, or on the membership tab in the Costco app and start with the number one, three, or eight.
Please enter your Costco member number now followed by the pound sign."
Excerpt from a call with Costco
Thursday, February 29, 2024 4:07 PM
The first phone menu
"Thank you for calling Cuff Wholesale. For Costco travel, press five. To repeat this information, press star.
Please note that the member service center and all US warehouse locations will be closed on Easter Sunday For information including membership, executive two percent rewards, and Costco services, press one.
For information on the Costco City Visa, Costco Shop Card and payment options accepted at Costco press two."
Excerpt from a call with Costco
Tuesday, March 26, 2024 1:02 AM
After you press 1
"In order to better assist you, please have your membership number ready. Member numbers are located on the back of either your membership card your Costco city Visa, or on the membership tab in the Costco app and start with the number one, three, or eight. Please enter your Costco member number now followed by the pound sign.
Need more time to find your member number? Press one.
Not a member yet? Press two."
Excerpt from a call with Costco
Saturday, January 6, 2024 1:14 AM

Calling Costco Customer Care at 800-774-2678

Dec 18, 2023

My Costco membership has allowed me to get some products at good discounts. However, I don’t have a current membership card, so I called the customer service number at 800-774-2678 to see if the company could update it over the phone. In addition to membership inquiries, consumers might call Costco customer service to ask about store locations or products.

My call began with a voice response system letting me know I had reached Costco Wholesale and offered some prompts for getting assistance. I could press one for membership, executive rewards, or services, which is what I did. The voice told me to have my member number ready.

I had no idea where my old Costco membership card was, so when the system directed me to enter the member number, I couldn't do that. It told me if I needed time to find my number, I could press one, and if I was not a member yet, I should press two. I selected two, hoping I would get to a representative.

The system told me I could sign up for a new membership at the local Costco membership counter or go to the customer service webpage and search for a new member option. The system then instructed me to press star to repeat the information or hold for the next available representative.

I remained on hold, and the system said again that it was transferring me to the next available representative. It then informed me that the company records calls for quality assurance.

The system told me it was experiencing longer hold times due to high call volume and apologized. It said expected wait time was 12 minutes. Then, it said that all the representatives were busy with other customers and someone would answer my call in the order they received it. After that, I listened to music playing for about two minutes before I decided to end the call.

Based on the automated system’s information, I could have spoken with a representative if I had waited 12 minutes. That was more time than I was willing to spend waiting, and going to the website seemed like a good idea because I didn’t want to drive to the Costco store.

When I pulled up the website, I saw a button that allowed me to renew my membership. Clicking on the button took me to a login page for current members and an area where new members can sign up.

Overall, the call was okay. The menu prompts were not excessive, and the system’s recommendation concerning where to find what I needed on the website was accurate and the most convenient option.

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Costco Customer Phone Number 800-774-2678 - Stats

Phone number to dial800-774-2678
Call-back availableYES
Call picked up by a real personYES
Department you're callingCustomer Service
Call center hoursMon-Fri 6am-6pm, Sat-Sun 8am-5pm PST
Best time to dial8:30am
Average wait12 minutes
Current wait18 minutes
Rank (among phone numbers)1
Rank (overall)1
Communication channelsphone, facebook, email, web, chat
Quality of communication80%
Quality of help83%
Customer votes6,487
Information last updatedMon Mar 25 2024 10:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Costco's Best Toll-Free/800 Customer Phone Number

This is Costco'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 Costco agent. This phone number is Costco's Best Phone Number because 58,182 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 800-774-2678 include Store Feedback, Membership Question, Renew Membership, Refund a Charge, Missing Order and other customer service issues. The Costco call center that you call into has employees from Washington and is open Mon-Fri 6am-6pm, Sat-Sun 8am-5pm PST according to customers. In total, Costco has 3 phone numbers. It's not always clear what is the best way to talk to Costco 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.

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