have any of you experience of working with Amazon Mechanical Turk?
By blueboy3
@blueboy3 (123)
Ireland
August 10, 2010 5:02am CST
I was thinking of doing some work on this website. There appears to be more work available than on CloudCrowd. I know that as a non-US citizen I can only redeem my earnings as gift certificates, but that would not be so bad as I like books. Your experience or tips would be much appreciated. Thanks.
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4 responses
@Huey365 (342)
• Malaysia
10 Aug 10
I think this site is better than cloudcrowd because yes, it has more jobs.
This are what i do usually in order to get good credibility:
1. only accept tasks i am able to complete
2. always choose the easy jobs, regardless of the rewards.
3. be honest when completing a task
4. i always check the task before accepting it, means if the job needs me to find contact information, i will go to the website given and search for it first, if there is the info, i will accept the task.
And lastly, good luck to you!
@m_perez (506)
• United States
13 Aug 10
I use mturk but I'm thinking of quitting after I reach my goal. I just want to buy something small from amazon. Anyways this website does have a lot of jobs but it can get tiring after a while. I used to make like $5 a week but now I make like .60 cents. Probably because I'm too busy with mylot. Well I'll give you some tips and hopefully their helpful. I'm kind of new at mturk so I don't know to much about it.
1) First complete really simple tasks which are usually the ones that pay .01 cents to help get your approval rate up. If your approval rate goes up then you will get more jobs because the requester usually wants people with high approval rates.
2)Take the qualifications test. This way you will be qualified to do better paying jobs.
I have never taken the qualifications test. I just do small easy jobs but I gave you the second tip because someone mentioned it to me and said it would help.
@blueboy3 (123)
• Ireland
13 Aug 10
Thanks m_perez - it is very helpful to hear of your experience. Taking qualifications tests sounds like a good idea. From other websites, I find it hard that so much work is required for tasks that pay only a cent or two. Its ok for a while, but then its hard to keep up the time commitment and the motivation.
@Tauheed127 (44)
• India
11 Aug 10
Yes. i worked there for about 2 months and in the end they replied with the message..."your account is not falling in the minimum requirements of the Payout, so They took all i had earned". So I suggest you not to join that Legit site.
