Amazon.com selling tree work?

Yeah. I see this as an enormous cluster F**K. Can you say "regulation" I certainly am not for big government or big brother but there is already enough less than professional "companies" out there that the legitimate contractor has to fight against to make a buck. This will only increase the unwanted competition. I wonder where the test markets are at?
 
Welcome to the arboricultural gig-economy where providers who take all the contractor risk, gallantly race to the bottom. Meanwhile a giant corporation which adds next to no value whatsoever to the equation skims the profit off the top while limiting their own liability to that of not paying the contractor if something goes sideways. This is one of the reasons I'll stick to taking a regular taxi instead of an Uber ride, and why I shop at Costco rather than Sam's club.
 
Something else Amazon blithely glosses over is that they're selling tree work as landscaping services. GL for landscaping work typically doesn't insure work done at any significant elevation. Ditto WC. When that poor untrained schlub drops a limb through the clients roof or injures themselves on the site, and it turns out that they're not adequately insured for the tasks they were doing...Amazon will simply refund the price of the service to the client, and leave client and contractor to sue each other.
 
The internet has created lots of parasites, here is another example of a giant corporation making money off of a small biz. Amazon is now going to get a cut just like the other pay for lead companies, and they'll probably be better at it. I would guess Colorado is a good test market because there is very little regulation here. Especially outside of city limits, "Licensed and Insured" where I'm at means you have a drivers license and auto liability coverage.
 
This system can totally work. Just bid high!

But seriously we bid a lot of jobs from pics and satellite images. We rarely get screwed and when we do, it's not by much.


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