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Amazon Launches 'Home Services' For Repair, Installation, and Other Work

An anonymous reader writes: Amazon has quietly rolled out a new business called "Home Services," which aims to be a middleman between customers and all sorts of contracted services. It includes things like appliance repair, home cleaning, installation/assembly of products in your car or home, tutoring (academic and musical), and even performance art. Amazon makes money on this by taking a cut of the total price — between 10 and 20 percent. Since everything is geolocated, they have many more options available in big cities than in small rural communities. One of Amazon's goals is to help standardize the price for various services, so there aren't any surprises when the bill comes due.

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  1. Grossly Over-o's Here by fyngyrz · · Score: 0, Troll

    I'm pretty generous when it comes to hiring people to do things I don't want too, but who...

    Ok, suggestion for just such a hire (so you can have an opportunity to be generous!): Retain someone to teach you the difference between "to" and "too." :/

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