Now Amazon will even paint your house and fix your toilet: Firm launches marketplace for home services
- Listings will connect consumers to 'handpicked pros'
- Firms will be able to offer upfront pricing on pre-packaged services
US online giant Amazon said Monday it was launching a services marketplace offering to connect consumers with businesses offering anything from home improvement to piano lessons.
Amazon Home Services, which is being launched in major cities across the United States, includes businesses in diverse areas such as gardening, computer repair, and math or yoga instruction.
The new listings will connect consumers to 'handpicked pros offering upfront pricing on pre-packaged services with helpful reviews from customers that have made verified purchases.'
Online giant Amazon is launching a services marketplace offering to connect consumers with businesses offering anything from home improvement to piano lessons
Amazon said it will offer a 'happiness guarantee' for all the services.
'Amazon Home Services is now available across the country in major U.S. metropolitan areas,' it said.
The move further expands Amazon's footprint from its origins as an online bookseller, and which now sells a vast array of goods and digital services as well as online storage and hosting of websites.
To find the Amazon Home Services, click here. You can also go to the Amazon.com homepage, and then click on the 'Amazon Home Services' link in the 'Shop by Department' navigation.
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You can even type 'home services' or 'local services' into the search bar.
Earlier this week Amazon blasted federal regulators for being slow to approve commercial drone testing - and warned the United States is falling behind other countries in the potentially lucrative area of unmanned aviation technology.
Less than a week after the Federal Aviation Administration gave Amazon.com the green light to test a delivery drone outdoors, the company told U.S. lawmakers that the prototype drone had already become obsolete while the company waited more than six months for the agency's permission.
Amazon has approached the British Government about trialling its flying Amazon Prime Air service in the UK, transport minister Robert Goodwill has confirmed. One of its prototype delivery drones is pictured
'We don't test it anymore.
'We've moved on to more advanced designs that we already are testing abroad,' said Paul Misener, Amazon.com's vice president for global public policy.
Frustrated with how long it is taking to get approval for its flying delivery service in the US, Amazon is said to have approached the British Government to launch a trial of the technology in Britain.
Transport minister Robert Goodwill revealed the plans at a press conference for driverless cars and wider technologies.
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