Recently, Amazon‘s House Services segment completed its first year of existence and, according to the company, the business has now expanded to more than 90% of the U.S. Customer orders have grown by 20% per month on an average since last year, despite competition from players such as TaskRabbit and Angie’s List. Several products sold on Amazon’s e-commerce platform require additional services, such as installation or assembly, and providing these services under the house services segment is a natural extension of its e-commerce business. The company provides the option to customers of adding professional services at the time of checkout from its platform. We believe the convenience of buying the product and related services at the same time gives Amazon a competitive edge over stand-alone house services companies.

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