Amazon sells a ton of products ranging from books, clothing, home electronics, and even groceries. Now say you were to buy a TV from Amazon but you don’t know how to go about getting it wall mounted. This means you’ll need to wait for the TV to arrive and then call your local handyman to get it mounted for you.
Well Amazon is hoping to make the experience seamless as the company has recently started to promote service provider listings. Basically these service providers are names of companies in your area that are recommended by Amazon to help you with your installations. Amazon will be conducting background checks on these businesses as well as personal background checks.
The businesses are also expected to hold licenses and insurance as well, so you can rest assured that they have been thoroughly vetted by Amazon. Of course it’s not exactly a 100% guarantee that you’ll get great customer service, but at least you know Amazon does not simply allow anyone to be listed.
Amazon will also be taking a 20% cut from services that cost $1,000 or less, and 15% from jobs that cost $1,000 or more. As it stands these services are currently supported by Amazon in nine states and we expect that eventually the program will roll out to the rest of the US. In the meantime what do you guys make of this? Good idea?
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