Amazon Mechanical Turk

[nicole0214]

how long does it usually take requesters to approve the pending credits???

It takes hours.. Sometimes a week..

[iAmBrendaLee]

It can be anywhere from a few minutes to 30 days. Auto-approve is set to 30 days, so if something is pending for a long time, you're pretty much guaranteed it will be approved after a month.

One of the best things you can do when you're just starting out is to use Firefox and install turkopticon. It adds a little arrow beside the requesters, and you can check to see if they have positive or negative feedback.

how long does it usually take requesters to approve the pending credits???

[madnecromancer]

Sweet, I did two tasks last night for 4.55 each....took me about 30-35 minutes and it was classifying a loooong list of sentences into positive, negative or neutral sentiments...the english was horrible and didnt make sense but i did my best and just got paid my $9

[tvwatcher]

tried this for the first time last night - woke up to 4 cents in my account!

I had to rewrite a sentence, and the requester said it was well done!

I feel like I got a gold star or something. LOL

[iAmBrendaLee]

tried this for the first time last night - woke up to 4 cents in my account!

I had to rewrite a sentence, and the requester said it was well done!

I feel like I got a gold star or something. LOL

Todd Dickerson, right? He's a good requester. Once in a while, he puts some up that are 17, 23 and 30 cents.

[iAmBrendaLee]

Sweet, I did two tasks last night for 4.55 each....took me about 30-35 minutes and it was classifying a loooong list of sentences into positive, negative or neutral sentiments...the english was horrible and didnt make sense but i did my best and just got paid my $9

Who was the requester? They sound like good HITs.

[tvwatcher]

Todd Dickerson, right? He's a good requester. Once in a while, he puts some up that are 17, 23 and 30 cents.

yep, it was his!

I'm going to have to take some time to research all this - I see that there are scammers as well, and that you need to choose reputable requesters - I've read this thread, and made a list of recommended ones, but still find it confusing!

I want the mindless tasks that I can do while watching tv LOL

[iAmBrendaLee]

Hah. Don't we all! This forum is great: http://turkers.proboards.com -- good for discussing different requesters.

[tvwatcher]

Hah. Don't we all! This forum is great: http://turkers.proboards.com -- good for discussing different requesters.

thanks, I'll check it out!

[sfmarksman]

Hey SCer's just saw this Mturk thread and thought I'd say hello! I've been doing it daily since July 2010 and Love it! I love retaildatas hits the most as their fast to do plus the payout is very good! Here's my earnings so far!

[iAmBrendaLee]

Hey SCer's just saw this Mturk thread and thought I'd say hello! I've been doing it daily since July 2010 and Love it! I love retaildatas hits the most as their fast to do plus the payout is very good! Here's my earnings so far!

I miss retaildata. Before Christmas, I was making great money with them, but it's been weeks since I've seen a big batch. I'm pretty much strictly a John Gaddy girl now.

[sfmarksman]

I miss retaildata. Before Christmas, I was making great money with them, but it's been weeks since I've seen a big batch. I'm pretty much strictly a John Gaddy girl now.

Yea retail data was great. In October they had a ton to do and I ended up making $672 from them in three days working about 3 hours a day. It was great! If you like John Gaddy you should consider content galore as well they offer $1.80 to write a 150-350 word article on a topic and they approve and pay the same day!

[madnecromancer]

I got to do some retaildatas yesterday about 10...and again it took my qualification away for "average work" wtf...I spent like 10 minutes doing one of the damn categorization and checked all their category pdfs....and they still call that average work...

[sfmarksman]

I got to do some retaildatas yesterday about 10...and again it took my qualification away for "average work" wtf...I spent like 10 minutes doing one of the damn categorization and checked all their category pdfs....and they still call that average work...

If those are the ones i'm thinking about it's the one for 10 cents and you have to choose the category for the image right? I tend to stay away from those as I've heard they've been giving people a hard time about them. I do the "does this product belong in the category" I love those and can do those really quick.

[vienna4u]

I am just starting with this, I got paid 50 cents in my account, I mean the 50 cents are no longer in the pending but are in the approved amount, just curious how long will they take to appear in my account so i can transfer them on to my amazon account?