Amazon Launches Home Services Marketplace

Amazon.com is launching a home services marketplace that will connect customers with electricians, plumbers and painters in a move to have its services tied to every product sold on its website. Amazon Home Services, which launches today, will allow customers to buy 700 services such as car maintenance, TV wall-mounting and house cleaning at up-front prices. The quality of the service will be backed with an Amazon guarantee, which the retailer uses to vouch for products sold by third-party sellers on its website.