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View Full Version : Amazon Mechanical Turk...Anyone?
KarmelBrown
04-13-2009, 06:24 PM
Is anyone in our little world here working as an Amazon Mechanical Turk? If so can you please give me some insight on the process. I have signed up and I am finding that a lot of the HITS that I qualify for are for very strange request. I am just trying to find out information from anyone who has firsthand experience with this.
Thanks in advance for your comments.
Thanks in advance for your comments.
bricin6
04-13-2009, 07:15 PM
I've toyed with it but the pay is incredibly low. My best tip, if you want to pursue it, is check the hits often - the good ones go fast!
Courtnie
04-13-2009, 07:50 PM
I've done it some, but they don't pay very well. Some of the things take a really long time, like the transcription stuff and only pay like $2.00.smileys/smiley5.gif
kgee08
04-13-2009, 07:54 PM
Yea, the most I made thus far was $97.00 its okay, boring and time consuming .. you get 5 cent here and there. it adds up fast, just keep doing it & your loot will add up.
KarmelBrown
04-13-2009, 09:13 PM
Thanks everyone...I am going to give it a shot when I have idle time...every little bit helps...these days. http://www.wahm.com/forum/smileys/smiley4.gif
KarmelBrown
04-13-2009, 09:15 PM
Also I did take a hit for a transcribing job...the sound was HORRIBLE! Not worth it at all so I had to return it. Has anyone else had any experience with the transcription jobs and problems with the sound?
Courtnie
04-13-2009, 09:25 PM
Oh yeah, the transcription jobs are stupid. They're on there just so they don't have to pay much to someone to do all the work.
Ldyjarhead
06-02-2009, 05:04 AM
Newbie here!
I just found Mechanical Turk and did a few HITS and made $2.44 so far. Not a lot, but I need every penny I can get, and hey, that's two loaves of bread for me!
I just found Mechanical Turk and did a few HITS and made $2.44 so far. Not a lot, but I need every penny I can get, and hey, that's two loaves of bread for me!
Confetti
06-02-2009, 12:56 PM
I've been doing MTurk for a while now. No, the HITS don't pay a lot, but after you spend some time there, you get to know which ones you can do quickly with little chance of rejection. I made enough to seriously help out with Christmas last year. For more info on working MTurk, go here:
http://turkers.proboards.com/index.cgi?
http://turkers.proboards.com/index.cgi?
