Amazon Home Service: Good or Bad

Whenever Amazon launches a new product people take notice. On Monday, Amazon announced that they would act as a middleman by providing home services like music lessons and home cleaning. Unfortunately, Amazon has decided to create a new position--an extra middleman. They are going to be working with companies like Takelessons and Taskrabbit. Instead of paying the service provider directly, Amazon plans to take a 10%-20% cut.

In the end, the person doing the work takes another pay cut. For example, a music teacher working for Takelessons will now have 2 middlemen--Amazon and Takelessons. This model reinforces the importance of what we are doing here at Jessica's Piano Studio. Our goal has always been the same--to get the money into the hands of the service provider and eliminate the middleman as much as possible.