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Title: Amazon Home Services sends professional handymen and instructors to your door Post by: HCK on March 31, 2015, 09:00:12 am Amazon Home Services sends professional handymen and instructors to your door
<article> <section class="page"> <p> You already use Amazon to buy computers, skateboards, and diapers. Now the company wants to sell you a plumber.</p><p> On Monday, the online retailer launched Amazon Home Services (https://www.amazon.com/services/), a marketplace for home repairs and installations. The revamped section of Amazon's site offers a wide array of services with everything from electrical work to car stereo installation to voice lessons.</p><p> Although the AHS name is new, Amazon has actually offered handyman listings for several months in a few limited markets. Reuters (http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/06/10/us-amazon-com-services-idUSKBN0EL20S20140610) first reported on Amazon's installation and repair ambitions last June. And in November, Forbes (http://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanmac/2014/11/25/amazon-quietly-reveals-local-services-push-with-new-web-page/) discovered an Amazon web page called Amazon Local Services with similar offerings to AHS.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2903326/amazon-home-services-sends-professional-handymen-and-instructors-to-your-door.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Amazon Home Services sends professional handymen and instructors to your door (http://www.macworld.com/article/2903326/amazon-home-services-sends-professional-handymen-and-instructors-to-your-door.html#tk.rss_all) |