Amazon Mechanical Turk

[iAmBrendaLee]

hmm really?Maybe i will give it a try since it looks like everybody here is earning a ton of money.How long did it take you to earn that much money??

I've earned $166.01 since July 9th. I think it's the best way to earn money online. Make sure you use Firefox and download the turkopticon plugin. It shows ratings and reviews for the Requesters, because you have to watch out for scammers.

[missbobloblaw]

hmm really?Maybe i will give it a try since it looks like everybody here is earning a ton of money.How long did it take you to earn that much money??

It took me a little less than 2 months to earn $300! It kinda sucks that with the amazon site some prices are high, but with minimal OOP cost it makes up for the prices! Find what you are comfortable with. There is always transcriptions or question writing HITS, and my favorite- Photomod (you click on the unsuitable photos ie:) I've kinda slacked off on it now, but we are thinking about saving up for the Black Friday/ Tech Monday Sales that will be coming up soon!

[iAmBrendaLee]

It took me a little less than 2 months to earn $300! It kinda sucks that with the amazon site some prices are high, but with minimal OOP cost it makes up for the prices! Find what you are comfortable with. There is always transcriptions or question writing HITS, and my favorite- Photomod (you click on the unsuitable photos ie:) I've kinda slacked off on it now, but we are thinking about saving up for the Black Friday/ Tech Monday Sales that will be coming up soon!

What kind of deals can you get on Black Friday? I want to save up for a laptop, but I can't find any that ship to Canada. There is one netbook on Amazon International, but it's not something I'd want.

[iAmBrendaLee]

Oh, and the ProdUniverse matching product hits for 10 cents are super easy, and it's great pay for a minute or two of work.

[pinkyts]

I earned quite a bit doing photomod hits several months ago. I decided to try using mturk again and can't seem to find any photomod hits anymore are they really gone?
?

[iAmBrendaLee]

No, they're still around- just once in a while.

[exitmanifesto]

No, they're still around- just once in a while.

Not often enough I miss them, they were easy money.

[missbobloblaw]

What kind of deals can you get on Black Friday? I want to save up for a laptop, but I can't find any that ship to Canada. There is one netbook on Amazon International, but it's not something I'd want.

i ordered my netbook straight from amazon.com- and they shipped it to Canada! Black friday is the American version of Boxing Day

[iAmBrendaLee]

i ordered my netbook straight from amazon.com- and they shipped it to Canada! Black friday is the American version of Boxing Day

Did you have to pay duties or tax?

[missbobloblaw]

Did you have to pay duties or tax?

You are supposed to pay both, but whomever processed my package for the border marked it as a personal camera- which is apparently exempt (?!?) from duties...it cost about $55 with everything for me to get it by courier. I figured being a computer the extra security of courier vs reg. post was worth it!

[iAmBrendaLee]

I just hit the $200 mark. I'm having a problem now though, because amazon payments is asking me to verify my account by entering my SSN, which I obviously don't have.

I really don't want to switch my location to Canada and lose access to some of my favorite HITs.

[MagicalDreams]

Well if you don't want to give them the tax information and you don't want to switch to Canadian status, I would highly suggest that you drain the money out of your account...I have read on another site of people having their accounts locked. Not worth missing some of your favorite hits IMO

[kirkeastment]

Well if you don't want to give them the tax information and you don't want to switch to Canadian status, I would highly suggest that you drain the money out of your account...I have read on another site of people having their accounts locked. Not worth missing some of your favorite hits IMO

I think thats the issue though MD, shes trying to drain the money out of the account, but is being asked to provide a SSN before being allowed to do so, and the only way for her to cash out is to enter that shes actually from Canada.

@iAmBrendaLee, theres no way around it unfortunately, your going to either have to fill in the tax form, which means changing your status to Canadian, or risk losing the money you've built up, because as MD stated, they will lock your account.

[iAmBrendaLee]

I switch my money over to Amazon.com several times/ day just in case. I generally keep a balance of $0 on Amazon Payments. I wonder how long before they'll lock my account. Once they do, I'll have no choice but to switch my mturk location to Canada.

Anyone else having that issue with Amazon Payments- them asking for a SSN? Man, I wish Amazon Payments would open themselves up to Canadians.

[MagicalDreams]

I would personally close out the account asap.