Amazon Mechanical Turk

Amazon Mechanical Turk is a marketplace for work that requires human intelligence. The Mechanical Turk service gives businesses access to a diverse, on-demand, scalable workforce and gives workers a selection of thousands of tasks to complete whenever it's convenient.

The Amazon Mechanical Turk web service gives developers a programmable interface to a network of humans to solve these kinds of problems and incorporate this human intelligence into their applications. There is also a web site which allows non-developers to place work into the system via an internet browser.


As a Mechanical Turk Worker you:

• Can work from home
• Choose your own work hours
• Get paid for doing good work

How do people collect money for the tasks they complete?

When a Requester approves a task, Amazon Mechanical Turk automatically deposits money into the Amazon.com account of the individual who completed the task. The account holder can choose to have this money transferred to their U.S. personal bank account or to their Amazon.com account where they can use it to pay for purchases.
https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome

FAQs: http://aws.amazon.com/mturk/faqs/

***To those of you who are familiar with the Swagbucks tasks, you also can earn money directly from amazon.. They have the same tasks and pay off .12 cents per task submitted.. Value of tasks range from .01 to $5 or $10, kinds of task include taking a survey, choosing the best among several photographs of a storefront, writing product descriptions, or identifying performers on music CDs... I just tried this this morning so I really don't know if this is a good one.. If there are others here who have tried this before, please provide some feedbacks.. Thanks.. :)

so far, this is what i got from my tasks yesterday.. it takes time to get the tasks approved though, and also to appear in your amazon account..

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Thanks! Ill check it out.

Cool thanks - I'll check this out too :D

I signed up but I'm not sure how to start a task? I can't see where to click?

Never mind, figured it out :)

Ill check this out later today or tomorrow, thanks!

i've never earned money in Amazon this fast.. problem only is, i've got no other way to take my money out of there not unless i purchase it through amazon or transfer it to a US account.. :sad: aren't there anything more in amazon that ships internationally other than books?

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How fast does it take the money to show in your account?

it takes hours, sometimes a day..

I did tasks days ago and still nothing in my account....

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I did tasks days ago and still nothing in my account....

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i really dunno.. :shrug: but mine do get credited after hours and to appear in my account too.. i stick with the low paying ones and stay off the ones which requires you to sign up in a site.. i suggest you try the easy ones from Dolores Labs and also easy transcription by Gabriel Parent.. they're worth .05 but they're most likely to get credited..

Signed up yesterday, did a few HITs, logged in this morning, saw that i'd had earned $0.21.

Not bad, but alot of time and hassle searching for easy things for $0.21.

I might take the occasional look here and there to see if there are any really easy ones, like the one where you find someones email contact, that was pretty good for $0.10 a time, but did take a while to find one, so i just stuck with doing one for the time being.

Shame we can't post the answers to those sorts of questions eh, then we'd all be raking in hand over fist. :smile:

I did the easy 0.05 ones, but nothing credited? Weird...

Can you sign up even if you don't have PayPal?

Can you just redeem your points/earnings directly for Amazon gift cards?

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Can you sign up even if you don't have PayPal?

Can you just redeem your points/earnings directly for Amazon gift cards?

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you either have the option of transferring your earnings to a US $ account or straight to your amazon account.. :)

i'm at $60 now, just in a week.. i already gave up on PTC sites.. lol..

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you either have the option of transferring your earnings to a US $ account or straight to your amazon account.. :)

i'm at $60 now, just in a week.. i already gave up on PTC sites.. lol..

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Thanks for replying.... I am thinking about signing up :)

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Thanks for replying.... I am thinking about signing up :)

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feel free to do so.. the only problem with this is that some tasks don't get credited immediately.. i plan on reporting them though if they don't do so in a week.. :)

still happy with it.. i don't have what they call a life so i spend my time mostly here.. lol..

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OK, mine did credit! Took about a week! Now I'm doing more. I plan on putting it right into my amazon account. Is that what everyone else is doing? I don't have a US bank account!

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feel free to do so.. the only problem with this is that some tasks don't get credited immediately.. i plan on reporting them though if they don't do so in a week.. :)

still happy with it.. i don't have what they call a life so i spend my time mostly here.. lol..

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I did check it out... but I did notice that the pay for the tasks is really, really disproportionate to the time spent doing them....it's not worth it for me to spend an hour doing something to come away with a whopping .10, lol

I came across this forum where people are talking about this

http://turkers.proboards.com/index.cgi?

:)

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I did check it out... but I did notice that the pay for the tasks is really, really disproportionate to the time spent doing them....it's not worth it for me to spend an hour doing something to come away with a whopping .10, lol

I came across this forum where people are talking about this

http://turkers.proboards.com/index.cgi?

:)

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yes, other tasks are somewhat difficult and not worth the pay but i scour thru the tasks and find some really easy ones that has a good pay.. :)

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OK, mine did credit! Took about a week! Now I'm doing more. I plan on putting it right into my amazon account. Is that what everyone else is doing? I don't have a US bank account!

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yup, i transfer it directly to my amazon account.. and my bad, the ones from Gabriel Parent did take a week to credit, same with mine.. hehe.. i checked the HITs today and saw that there's a new batch of HITs from him.. i'd probably stick to it, at least it gets credited and the tasks are easy.. :)

i'm at $100 already after 12 days!!! woot!!!

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yes, other tasks are somewhat difficult and not worth the pay but i scour thru the tasks and find some really easy ones that has a good pay.. :)

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Ok thanks, I will go back on the site when I have some time and look to see for better paying ones :)

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i'm at $100 already after 12 days!!! woot!!!

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Wow $100.00 in your Amazon account... wtg :)

I've been doing the easy ones, I did a ton yesterday for 0.08 each, where you would have to write what you heard in the audio file. Took about 10 seconds to do each one. Seems easy enough, no worse than PTCs!

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I've been doing the easy ones, I did a ton yesterday for 0.08 each, where you would have to write what you heard in the audio file. Took about 10 seconds to do each one. Seems easy enough, no worse than PTCs!

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are those ones from PTPGlobal? lucky you, i've been waiting for those all day but haven't seen them.. they do credit immediately and yes, they're far greater than PTCs.. hehe..

Yeah, they were the ones I was doing yesterday, not there today for me though, they were awesome! Doing 0.05 ones from Gabriel Parent today, pretty easy as well!

Just done 70 of the $0.05 clicks, took like 100 minutes+, hope they all pay out.

Why are people giving this thumbs down?? I earned tons of money, really quickly.

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Why are people giving this thumbs down?? I earned tons of money, really quickly.

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don't mind them.. maybe they're just too lazy to check it out for themselves.. they just don't know what they're missing.. way better than PTCs, i say.. hehe.. thanks for giving it a :top: though.. (it even reached -4 before).. :)

how long have you been a turk worker? how much money did you rack up? can you please name other easy, high paying tasks please.. thank you..

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Great recommendation! Thanks!