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Sell Services on Amazon

by bizgrower
6 replies
I did not know about this. Hope it helps some clients of yours.

https://services.amazon.com/selling-...S-globalfooter
#amazon #sell #services
  • Profile picture of the author ewenmack
    Originally Posted by bizgrower View Post

    I did not know about this. Hope it helps some clients of yours.

    https://services.amazon.com/selling-...S-globalfooter
    I posted about this back here...http://www.warriorforum.com/offline-...ntractors.html

    Amazon are now doing a Uber and hiring drivers to deliver parcels.
    https://www.google.co.nz/?gfe_rd=cr&...livery+drivers

    Best,
    Doctor E. Vile
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  • Profile picture of the author sconer
    I wasn't happy with the Amazon service. First, I am a payment on completion (cash in hand as I leave) type of contractor, I am not going to wait 2weeks for Amazon to play with my money, it's just not going to happen.

    Second, they were putting me up against non-licensed contractors who should not be advertising that they do that type of work, it's illegal, but Amazon did not do anything about it.

    Third and final straw, it was all about price. The way Amazon does it makes the customer pick the contractor with the lowest price 99% of the time. That doesn't work for me because I am NOT the cheap contractor, I am the good contractor that comes in and fixes what the cheap contractor messed up.
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    • Profile picture of the author bizgrower
      Originally Posted by sconer View Post

      I wasn't happy with the Amazon service. First, I am a payment on completion (cash in hand as I leave) type of contractor, I am not going to wait 2weeks for Amazon to play with my money, it's just not going to happen.

      Second, they were putting me up against non-licensed contractors who should not be advertising that they do that type of work, it's illegal, but Amazon did not do anything about it.

      Third and final straw, it was all about price. The way Amazon does it makes the customer pick the contractor with the lowest price 99% of the time. That doesn't work for me because I am NOT the cheap contractor, I am the good contractor that comes in and fixes what the cheap contractor messed up.
      Good to know the ins and outs of it from a contractor's point of view.
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      • Profile picture of the author sconer
        I'm sure people could make money from it. If you work it right (put the fees into the job), it won't cost you anything. But you need to have low prices to get customers from them.

        One way to do it would be to use loss leaders, sell a ceiling fan installation for $65 (at a loss, of course) just to get in the door, then upsell them for lots more.

        In the end, I hate the whole referral technique of making me pay a company to give me AND my competition leads that we have to fight for. That's why I didn't like Service Magic/Home Advisor.
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  • Profile picture of the author nojobsleftbehind
    Thanks for sharing this with us.
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  • Profile picture of the author 3dtech
    thanks for this information.
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