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Devin Coldewey NBC News

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The next time you need a room painted, a leaky sink fixed or a TV mounted, you may be able to just add it to your Amazon shopping cart with a click rather than go through the usual rigmarole. Amazon Home Services is the tech giant's latest offering, letting users across the country line up an electrician or mechanic with a click.

It's an alternative to the traditional means of hiring such pros, but also a shot across the bows of competing sites like Angie's List, which maintains ratings and recommendations for local providers. But unlike Angie's List, there would be no fee to peruse reviews and pricing. And because you pay through Amazon, the billing process is simplified for both consumer and professional.

"What were trying to do for costumers is make it as easy to buy a service as it is to buy a physical product on Amazon today," explained Amazon's Peter Faricy to TODAY.

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The most popular services, by Amazon's estimate, are what you might expect: painter, handyman, plumber, cleaner, and so on. But there may be less common services available as well got some brush that needs clearing? Hire some goats to chew their way through it. All in all there's a total of 2.4 million service offers across more than 700 categories of professional service types, all of which Amazon claims to have evaluated and hand-picked. (No babysitters yet, unfortunately.)

It's a widespread but still limited roll-out: New York, L.A., San Francisco, and Amazon HQ Seattle are getting the most service coverage, so if you're in Chicago, Miami or a smaller town, don't expect the full rent-a-goat treatment. By the end of the year, however, Faricy hinted, the biggest 30 metro areas in the country should be catching up.

Want to give it a try? Just go to Amazon and look up a service just like you'd look up a book or gadget.

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Last year, Amazon started toying with the idea of not only selling you a TV, but also hooking you up with someone who could mount it. Now, Amazon's Home Services marketplace is up and running 41 major US cities so you can order plumbers and plungers from the same place.

Aside from just being dumb convenient, ordering services through Amazon means that you get to know the pricing upfront, can read Amazon reviews of the people you're hiring, and that Amazon will pop in and start throwing its weight around if for some reason you aren't happy with the service.

So far, the highest concentration of professionals are concentrated in Seattle, New York City, Los Angeles, and San Fransisco. And here in New York City at least, options range from "iPhone repair" to "goat grazing service." So far that's no option to hire someone to harass the super of my apartment building about a leaky bathroom ceiling, but I can only assume that'll be coming soon. [Amazon]

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