doubt in mechanical turk
By muraliguru54
@muraliguru54 (25)
India
January 7, 2012 10:37am CST
Hai friends i hope you guys know about Mechanical Turk,it is one of the place where we can do some small tasks and earn based on your work.I joined Mturk few days back am now doing small tasks.I just wanna know is Referrals allowed or not in Mechanical turk.If you know anything about referrals in mechanical turk please share here so that we can work and earn some money.
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6 responses
@sujaysen (594)
• India
7 Jan 12
Hi, Once I was a reputed member of mTurk with a good repute and earned around $1600 which is unbelievable. But without any reason, suddenly my account was suspended and till I have $218 due to them. If you once suspended at there, they will not entertain you a single reply instead of your hundreds of request. But, I can say you that it is 100% genuine site and pays well. But as far as I know, they do not have any referral system as I had also tried to know my referral link. So there is no referral link. But, I ask you to draw your hard earned money frequently although they charges $4.00 for each withdrawal. Because if you once suspend, you won't get your money back. Also, the company I worked for in mTurk most probably does not exist. So, work there as per your choice. I wish you all the best.
@muraliguru54 (25)
• India
8 Jan 12
Hello sir its great to know that you earned $1600 and how long you have been using Mechanical turk and how much earn from that site(daily).If possible tell me that which tasks you are working frequently.Thanks for your ideas and if you know anyother site just like mylot or Mturk just share here.
@sujaysen (594)
• India
8 Jan 12
Hi, I was a member there for around 10 months and earned that amount within 7 months. I was getting around $5.00 to $10.00 daily, although there was s bonus system of that company. But I really work very hard. Once I used to work from 3am morning to 10am and again from evening to late night.
Right now, I am working with different company though it is not such huge earnings like them but I can earn around $30 monthly. It is totally free to join. If you are interested to join there please add me in MyLot as your friend and send me a personal message with your mail ID.. I do not want to disclose it here. Wish you best of luck.
@annelisle71 (275)
• Philippines
8 Jan 12
I have an account at mturk and there is no referral system there. You have to be careful though if you are working on HITS because if there are many tasks that you submitted that are rejected the requester can block you from working on their hits again. This can also lower your rating and this would mean that you can only work on less hits especially if some hits require high rating like 95% above.
Another thing, if there are 3 requester who block you, most likely mturk will suspend your account.
The daily earnings that I got on that site depends on how many hits I have done that were accepted. There are some days that I earn $5 or more and there are other days I earned less than that.
I used to work daily on the site but since they only have amazon gift certificate for non-US worker (except for India where they send checks)I only work when there are HITS that I really like. I just buy something out of the gift certificate and mail them to a friend in the U.S. who have an eBay account and she sells the stuffs for me and send me the money to my paypal.
I like the site but they they don't have good service for their workers since they can suspend an account and they will just email that you did not follow their TOS and they won't entertain other questions about suspended account.
It is a legal site but I don't agree very much with how they operate it especially in terms of payment. Why? Because they accept workers worldwide but they only pay those from India by sending checks and from U.S.through U.S. bank account.
I think this is unfair, if they accept workers from other countries, they should have made it possible for those workers to transfer their earnings to their bank account instead of gift certificate. It is hard to buy things from amazon.com site when it is too costly to be sent to your home country.
I am not discouraging you from working on the site, I am just sharing my opinion and experiences from working there.
Good luck and I hope I was of help to you.
@muraliguru54 (25)
• India
8 Jan 12
yes my work was rejected once in November,after that am working properly.I think to earn $5 one has to spend minimum 4 hours,in some cases only US citizens are allowed to complete certain tasks but its very useful to earn some money.I am from India as u say they will send check for us but dont know about transaction process for other countries.I hope you guys will get a solution(transaction) in near future.thanks for the response.
@Lucky12 (767)
• United States
7 Jan 12
This is a great site, some things are not what you may be able to do, but do what you can do. I use my earnings in Amazon actually I do not get 10 bucks and then cash out to my bank account. I just use what I have on amazon to buy a gift for someone or something like that.
The site is great and sometimes you have to be careful, I would not use referrals if you do not have to. I have none actually. I have heard some people getting suspended for some type of actions that they may not have done or maybe they did not know that they did.
Good luck to you and hope that you continue using the site, I have made about thirty or so dollars from there, which is because I am not on often anymore. I tell you I was doing a lot of 1 cent tasks.
@muraliguru54 (25)
• India
8 Jan 12
Yes there is some restrictions for non US workers,they can't work in all tasks and we need to be carefull in choosing the tasks and completing it properly else our job gets rejected.Thanks for the reply.
@ashish2expert (78)
• India
7 Jan 12
wow, you found a new site for me which is really best. It's a part of amazon company, so i can always trust. Thanks buddy....
@muraliguru54 (25)
• India
7 Jan 12
You are welcome my dear friend and try to work there and earn.If you know any other sites for these types of work let me know.
@muraliguru54 (25)
• India
8 Jan 12
How long you have been working there and what is your daily earning.Thanks for your reply.