I haven't come across any problems with it. I came across mturk from a friend who uses it. I admit i was a bit skeptical at first when mturk needed my SS information (but that's only for verification so you can receive payment once you cash out) and I love it. The hits are easy and approved quite quickly.
I will continue to use mturk. Love it.
What a joke I could not use amazon turk because of the stupid amazon payments why? Because for some reason they disabled my account because they could not confirm my information, but would they tell me what info no. How can I fix this they said you cant. End of story. Well what a waste of time now my bank info and ssn are stuck on that site and because it is disabled I cannot even delete them! Customer service was a joke dont even bother calling
It's ok. I've been working on mturk for a long time now and I can tell you it isn't what it used to be. Now that they changed over to the new worker site it is even worse! I do the best I can on it with scripts to catch but, there isn't much work anymore. Mturk just isn't worth it these days.
If they don't approve the task they will keep your money with no recourse. Basically the contract is worded so they can just keep any money that you prepaid. I wouldn't recommend.
Well if this email from them says anything, it screams idiocy. Here it is:
Greetings from Amazon Mechanical Turk,
We have completed our review of your Amazon Mechanical Turk Worker Account. We regret to inform you that you will not be permitted to work on Mechanical Turk.
Our account review criteria are proprietary and we cannot disclose the reason why an invitation to complete registration has been denied. If our criteria for invitation changes, you may be invited to complete registration in the future.
Thank you for your interest in Mechanical Turk.
Sincerely,
Amazon Mechanical Turk
https://www.mturk.com
410 Terry Avenue North
SEATTLE, WA *******-5210 USA
What the hell about a review process is proprietary? Are you kidding? What was proprietary about it? It is because they only hire Americans now. Because of this review, a friend here in Canada who uses MTURK has cancelled her jobs so now she will use clickwork.com
Mturk sucks they closed your account without warning and when you send email and ask why they close the account they do not reply I send servral email and it has been over a month and no reply because they sucks and don't want to pay for work done and have no care for the employee.
Here is my honest review of Amazon Mechanical Turk. I have been a worker for several years so this is a good resource to check.
http://spiralnotes.com/mechanical-turk-review/
Mturk has become worst then before, when mturk increase requester commission percentage to double from 20% to 40%, all requesters gone away. Few are left, because they don't have any option. Why don't they decrease requester commission percentate to 20% those who are giving 1000's and lacs of hits.
This is great for me as a small side income. Pay a bill here and there it's obviously not a full-time job but if you're a stay at home mom it is a great way for extra money. It's very small pay it first but as you keep going some jobs will pop up you qualify for with higher pay. I have done my first transfer and everything went smooth. No problems yet. Hopefully it continues to go smooth
I have been using this site for about 8 months now. As the previous reviewer said, the HITs pay from $. 01 to $20.00 and up. Generally, the harder the task, the more money you will be paid (obviously) and the more qualified you have to be. For the HIT's that require qualification, you need to take the given test and pass it to be able to qualify. Basically, the more time you spend on here the more money you will make. One can make a good amount of money on here. Certainly not a sole income but definitely some spending money or some money to put away in savings or something. I've been paid for taking quizzes, surveys, transcribing audio, editing written assignments, and some other odd jobs. It can be fun too!
I am proud of being an amazon turker. The tasks are Quite simple and interesting. HITS include identifying objects in a photo or video, performing data de-duplication, transcribing audio recordings, or researching data details etc. I've been working on Mturk since 2010. Any one with knowledge in english can work on it. Now I am a trusted worker with 98.4% accuracy and worked on more than ******* Hits. I recommend this to all those who wish to earn some money by doing transcriptions, surveys, playing interactive games (as part of survey).
I've been a turker since 2016 and have made money to add to my Amazon gift card balance or to transfer to my bank. It doesn't pay much but the work isn't difficult. You do have to pay attention as you may not receive payment if you don't follow directions carefully. Happy Turking!
I randomly stumbled across mTurk.com (Amazon Mechanical Turk) while surfing the net. I read reviews about this site, and how people can make money by completing HITs, or human intelligence tasks. It's a reliable site, and it is owned by Amazon.com themselves. People upload simple tasks others can do, for example, you can complete mini surveys, or write articles, and transcribe audio (listening an audio and writing it out into words). HITs vary from $. 01-$20 & up. I've been doing HITs averaging from 4-5 bucks, and made around $130 in two weeks, which is not bad at all. This site is pretty much secure... you have the option of transfering your money into Amazon credits, or into your bank account through the Amazon website.
Hi Amazon Team, This is Chandra Sekar from India
Why Mturk was restricted in india for last 2 years. Because its useful for lot of un employee students and house wife,. Please again come to india and give better future to all who seeking job.
MTurk is a great place for people looking to make a few extra bucks in their free time, however, there are a small group of people who actually make a living there. Better paying hits open up as you rack up bigger and better numbers. Be careful to keep your acceptance rate over 90% if you want the best hits. The Turkopticon add-on is a must to weed out the bad requesters. Pay is daily if you have $1 to claim, and you can easily transfer your earnings to your bank account. The site is very secure. I've never had a problem with losing any money.
All-in-all, a good site, but not without its flaws, which is why I give it a 4. Most people give up too easily, and are not willing to learn the system or work hard enough to make it work for them. With diligence and accuracy, you can make a good amount of money there at night while you're watching t. V.
Mturk isnt anything that you'd want to quit your day job over, but it is nicefor a few extra bucks or Amazon gift cards now and again. I've used it for a long time and will do so for many more years as long as it is around
The Amazone mechanical turk is one of the best trusted free work from home site. I am earning extra cash from this website. Not huge but always additional earning is a plus. I enjoyed working on amazone mechanical turk. Main advantage is any time we can do work. No time limit.
Trust me this site is not a spam
Vassim.
Now mturk become worst, all requesters left mturk because increase in commission from 10% to 40%. In 2013-2016 boom in work, daily 10 to 20 projects to work, but now 1 project in couple days. I don't know who is head of mturk, he is worst person.
I went through reading the instructions, answering all of their questions, waiting 48 hours, only to find out I'd been rejected with no reason given. Complete waste of time!
From time to time I do surveys to make a little money, but I hate it when I spend 20 minutes of my time, believing I reached all requirements, then my $#*! gets REJECTED. That is my TIME wasted that I can never get back. Not even able to email the requestor to tell her that she wasted my time on her survey $1.25 I was trying to earn for that damn survey. So many damn questions, at least 70, I answered all and at the end after it thanked me for taking the survey, I get REJECTED; which means no payment. My survey was completed but I won't get paid. I am $#*!ing pissed. So glad when i get a regular job and not have to go through this $#*!. Make a screener for your surveys, then folks won't waste their damn time.
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