So to the left you can see my earnings since around late august till now. Let me start by saying I was not working 8 hours a day everyday. Vast majority of those days were less than 2 hours. Some days were 8+. It all depends on the work I find those days. In september I made over 600 and I know of people that made 2000 that month. Those are the people that do mturk as a serious job.

So lets take you through a step by step of mturk.

Step 1 - You sign up for an account.
Step 2 - You find a hit you want to do.
Step 3 - You complete the hit.
Step 4 - The requester approves your hit.
Step 5 - Amazon pays you.
Step 6 - You either blow your money on shit on amazon or withdraw it to a bank account. You WILL need tax information if you are in the US, if you are international you can only spend your money on amazon gift cards (More on international later and how to get your money)

So thats basically it. Thats the tl;dr of mturk. Now for the tips to actually get real money and not be doing shitty 1 dollar an hour work. If you have questions ask away.

>>8105572
i.....i have a hard time believing this is legit...

>>8105613

it isn't. Reported for spam.

not op, but this is legit. it's by amazon. the pay is bad, but it's real money (or amazon gift cards, your choice.)

lostity successful.

>>8105613

www.mturk.amazon.com

>>8105626

>implying this place has mods.

>>8105661
i was gonna say the site seems legit, and it appears to actually be run through amazon.

OP where do i find the shit thats not a few cents an hour?

(next wall of text, only 1 more to go after this!)

First of all with mturk you have to realize 99% of the jobs are SHIT. There are people from developing countries that are on the site as well (india is a huge one) and those jobs usually are only meant to be done by them. Luckily though there are several great requesters that pay minimum wage that post periodically through out the day. Several even pay well over minimum wage. I commonly find 20 an hour work on Mturk. Best I ever got was 30 an hour.

You need to learn who is good and who is bad. This means you will have to test hits, and you will realize you're working for 3 dollars an hour and quit and move on to another requester. This takes time but in no time you will have it down and be making money.

DO NOT slave over shit work. Even if you don't see anything else on don't waste your time doing 1 dollar an hour work because its "Better than nothing": guess what if your busy doing that shit you could miss that 20 dollar hit that was posted.

Its essential you use Turkopticon (google it) to find requesters with reviews and avoid bad requesters.

>>8105682

You need to wait for the requesters that pay good to post work. Don't think jobs that pay .02 cents cant be good work though. I've seen a .02 cent hit that paid 15 an hour because you could do it so fast.

Just gotta learn the system.

>>8105736
well, reading through the terms im not seeing anything shady....

seems crazy enough to potato OP.

Canadianon here; what can I do with this?

>>8105755

Will get to international people later. Its possible, just a bit harder to set up and if you want actual money instead of amazon gift cards its gonna cost you 20% of your earnings. Sucks but its better than nothing right? (don't feel bad even amerifags lose 11% to taxes)

Before i post the last wall of text is there anyone that still thinks this is a scam? Ill go screenshot my amazon-payments account.

>>8105770
I can deal with that, might as well get something accomplished while fucking around in my free time. I'll stick around.

(Last wall of text!)

Now I'm gonna be blunt. You can't get rich off mturk, you can't make more than 30k a year probably at BEST and that is with a lot of work. Mturk is great for supplementing income or making cash to blow on shit. (I bought a computer completely with mturk earnings) Its easy work and if you can handle doing it then you will make some nice money. You guys sit at home on the computer all day anyways, why not make some extra money while doing it? Making 1000 a month is EASY on mturk if you take it seriously and have the time to put into it. Making 2000 is a challange but possible if your dedicated and take this like a 100% real job. Anything over that is god mode but possible.

To excel at mturk you need to be able to work whenever the good work is posted. You have to sign up at turkalert (google that too) and when you see good work posted you do the damn work. I've stayed up all night to do some epic jobs that were posted.

Mturk is a huge topic and I could go on for 40 posts because there is a lot of shit but I doubt you guys wanna read all that right now so ill just answer questions from now on.

>>8105783
Let's see those screen shots.

I'm reading this but I can't really seem to find examples of jobs. OP can you post some generic examples of jobs?

>>8105790

Okay so international workers...

Mturk only allows 2 countries to withdraw directly to bank accounts. Amerifags and indians... Why india? Because they need a good slave labor force that will work for 1 dollar an hour. For the rest of you you can still work! What you have to do is contact amazon when you open your account (theres a mturk customer support button somewhere) and tell them you want your account set to international I believe, Do NOT use amazon payments as soon as they realize your international they will suspend your account and take any money inside it.

Once you set up your international account your amazon payments button will be replaced with a link that transfers your money directly to your amazon account for gift cards. Now here is how you make your money from that.

You dropship on eBay... You find something cheap on amazon and post it on eBay and when that person buys you buy on amazon and put in their address for shipping. This works out to around 20% on average lost from all fees. It sucks I know but its the only way for international atm.

Although amazon is "Looking into" ways to pay international workers but that could be months away.

>>8105850

1 sec

>>8105891
Looked into it a little more. I need around 700 bucks by next summer, and am terribly anti-social/awkward when it comes to job interviews. I think you've just helped me out tremendously! I'm gonna check this out after school tomorrow.

>>8105850

Good enough? Notice all those payments are payments for individual hits which is why they are so small. I can screenshot a actual single payment if you would like.

>>8105882

Ill use 2 examples from jobs I did today. Both paid around 12 an hour.

Example 1 - You get 4 search engine results for a query. you review each ones and decide which one is the most relevant. Fast and easy paid about 12 an hour.

Example 2 - You got a doctors name, you typed his name into a national database and copy pasted some ID number. Fast and easy and also paid 12 an hour although some super fast people were making like 16.

>>8105979

You could have 700 within a month if you tried... I'm shooting for 1000 a month personally.

Heres another screenshot of a individual payment.

What qualifications are useful?
Also, thanks. This sure beats ChaCha.

>>8106022
Wow. Idk if I want to get a good rest or start on this...
Thanks, bro. This helps a lot. I hope this threa is still going by morning time.

>>8106034

Get as many as you can. Take qualification tests often so you can expand your the hits you can take. Most tests are fast so why not try?

The most useful qualification you can get is the Amazon Categorization Masters. Its a secret amazon qualification they give to their "Elite" workers and opens up a lot of good paying hits. To get it you need to do a lot of hits and have a good rating.

I have to warn you guys though amazon can be a BITCH to workers and you need to be very careful about who you work for or you can get your account suspended. More on that in next post.

Why are you telling /adv/ this? Do amazon pay you to advertise this or what?

>>8106119
>how dare you be helpful!

>>8105770
I actually want *things* more than I want money. So that is perfect for an international (canadian)... yes?

Oh and the first 10 days you work on mturk you have a 100 hit a day limit. After 10 days that goes away and you get the new 3800 a day limit. If you do just 1 hit every day for 10 days the limit will go so make sure you do 1 a day. Its frustrating as fuck to get great hits and be stopped by the limit.

Now about amazon being a bitch. They put ALL the power in the requester. If a requester thinks all your work is shit they can mass reject you and RUIN your entire rating. You have little to no options, amazon won't care if you bitch to them. Your only hope is begging to the requester.

Requesters can also block. If you get 3 blocks within a unknown time period they will suspend your account taking any money in your account with it.

If you notice you get blocked (you will get a message when you try to accept their hits) then you should ask them why you were blocked POLITELY and try to work it out if you can. if that doesnt work you should beg and promise to never do their hits again if they will just unblock you.

>>8106119

No I wish.. amazon has no kind of referral system. In fact they could care less about me or anyone. They have thousands of workers and we are literally like numbers to them.

I'm doing this because i know there is a ton of neckbeards that need cash just like I was and would love to do this.

>>8106186

Yes but international shipping can really be a bitch sometimes. I doubt you will pay more than 20% on shipping though so its probably still a good deal. Canada isnt too bad though, its overseas that gets insane (hundreds of dollars to ship 1 item)

>>8106213

Forgot trip. Fucking addons.

>>8106119
>viralviralviral
If this takes off, more people will use it and more of us can make money.

I've been looking at some of the jobs/HITs... lmao they're so fucking weird!

>>8106245

There's already tens of thousands of workers but don't worry there's more than enough jobs for everyone.

Interesting OP, I've often considered something like this to supplant my income as a college student.

I do have a question though. After I go through the first 10 days, and I get to the large hit limit, am I obligated to do a certain amount of hits per day?

That is to say, if I need money in November, but I don't need any in December, can I simply not do a single hit in December, then start doing them again in January with no penalty?

>>8106255

You should see the porn hits... There is actually a set of hits that gets posted every month or so that all you do is look at screenshots from porn videos and give it a title. They pay like 9 an hour for looking at porn. They have posted hundreds of thousands of them too.

>>8106274

There is no obligation to do any amount of hits. You can do 1 or 1000 in a day they don't care. If you leave for 6 months your account will still be there and work perfectly fine.

Average time a day you have to spend to earn decent bucks (around 25-50 a day)?

you probably waste more electricity than you earn in money

>>8106311

It all depends on the work you find. Most important thing is being available to do the hits when they are posted.

I personally work for nothing under minimum wage 7.25 an hour. So my minimum for 25 dollars would be 3.44 hours. Of course there's plenty of work you find over minimum wage. Just a couple days ago I was doing 20 an hour work and I was able to do it for 5 hours. It all just depends on your luck.

There are slow days though, weekends SUCK. Some days I can only pull 10 dollars that day because there is no work posted but thats rare.

>>8106364

Please be troll...

>>8105566
So what kind of tax information do they ask for?

I actually found out about this months ago but never really thought much about it but I need some cash.

>>8106404

Social security info. You don't even have to put it in I believe until you reach the 600 dollar amount. But it takes amazon days to verify it so you should put it in as soon as you realize you want to do this for realz.

>>8106425

Forgot trip again...

Also thats only for americans. If your in another country amazon isnt doesn't have to worry about you not paying your taxes so they leave that up to you.

>>8106425
Do they make an account on Amazon for you to store your mullah or do you have to/have the option to put in a bank account? Honestly though, I'm going to end up just buying shit on amazon so maybe it'll be simpler to use gift cards?

>>8106489

I think it auto makes you a amazon payments account when you sign up and links it to your account. You should also make a amazon.com account as well.

All your money gets auto deposited in your amazon payments account as requesters approve your work.

From there you can link a bank account and withdraw it or turn it into amazon gift cards and spend it on amazon.com (international amazon accounts cant be bought from like amazon.co.uk)

I have been blowing all mine on amazon.com lately but will be adding a bank account this month and withdrawing to there.

Ill go make some food, be back in a few minutes.

Where do i click to accept the HIT?

Every time I click on the title it maximizes then minimizes

>>8106525
I'm going to try it. Even if it ain't all that great you seem pretty honest in your intentions so I'll do it just for that. And even if you're a viral marketer my time ain't worth shit. Besides I have a bunch of manga I want but no cash and this beats sucking dick.

>>8106255
>>8106186
Here. I just went to sign up for an account, and it already had my Amazon account info in the browser. AKA... this shit is legit. If it was a scam, it would ASK for my account info. But I guess it comes down to how much you trust Amazon.

>>8106568

You have to hit view hit in the right hand corner first. Then you can view the hit and if you want to do it hit accept on the next page.

>>8106571

Why would a viral marketer be on fucking /adv/ lol they would set up youtube videos and shit.

>>8105891
>What you have to do is contact amazon when you open your account (theres a mturk customer support button somewhere) and tell them you want your account set to international I believe, Do NOT use amazon payments as soon as they realize your international they will suspend your account and take any money inside it.

Wait wut?
Tell them you're international but never let them find out?
...Rephrase plox?

Are all the HITs safe to do,

I saw some credit report ones and I dont really want to be giving anyone else my social.Bad enough amazon has to get it for the bank account and taxes shit.

>>8106637

Just contact them and make a international account before you do hits. The problem comes when you make a normal account and then get a amazon payments account and start getting money even though your international.

When you contact them they will remove the amazon payments account and replace it with your international tab.

You don't have to hide anything from them don't worry.

>>8106641

No they aren't. 99% of the jobs are safe but there are scams. The credit report one is the ones that are obvious scams.

Any hit that asks for your personal information is probably a scam, if it wants you to sign up for something its probably a scam. Just use common sense. Most hits are contained within the hit window itself and don't make you go off site. Some do however, but as long as the link isnt something stupid like a tiny url or something its usually fine.

>>8106612
because no one would see and respond to it on youtube since there are so many thing viral marketing things on there so no one would care. When you go to 4chan, and say want to make money, you going to create a lot more attention, especially people can talk about anonymously

This shit is legit, but it's not easy to work with if you're out of the USA, and generally it pays something like $4/hr so it cannot replace a proper job.

It's more useful for getting some pocket money for a student or someone who's really bored.

every hit i see ranges from 5cents to a dollar, where the fuck is the good shit?

whats in it for you tripfaganon to post here about this? arn't you worried about competition

>>8106781

5 cents to a dollar can be great work.

mturk is about MICRO jobs. Most hits take seconds not hours. Ill be honest though there probably is no good work on right now. Its 3am. Good work is posted like regular job hours.

>>8106788

Nope because mturk isnt a secret site. There is already tens of thousands of workers and a few more 4chan people won't make a difference for me.

Just refresh and watch the hit counter hundreds of jobs get done and get posted a second.

Where are you getting these hourly wages from? It seems most of these things just list payment for completion of a task, so how are you supposed to know in advance how much you'd pull per hour?

>>8106833

You don't till you test the waters. Although once you get good you can look at a hit and know if its good or bad.

Just do 1. If it takes you 2 minutes for 5 cents its not a good hit.

Amazon set this up originally to get cheap data entry for their own product sales. (That was several years ago.) Ever since they finished, most of the jobs there have been bullshit. I stopped because of the amount of garbage employers.

I'll take OP's word that there are worthwhile jobs being posted there now from time to time.

I'll also agree with OP that it can be useful supplemental income.

In my opinion though, if you spend any great deal of time on this, you could probably be learning a skill and getting yourself a real job.

How would my money get transfered? How safe is it besides being apart of Amazon? Is there an risks?

>>8106823
>Its 3am. Good work is posted like regular job hours.

Any way to gauge what time zone the site is running on?
That's another hurdle for international members.

Why was it named mturk instead of mhabeeb or mindian or mchink? Aren't they the ones that are super cheap laborers?

If Im a canada fag all I have to do is create. An account and get it set to international and then I can get money to use in amazon gift cards?

Also thanks for posting this op

>>8106859

Once you tell amazon your bank account info you can request a transfer to your bank account as soon as you get 10 dollars and its usually in your bank within 24 hours.

>How safe is it besides being apart of Amazon? Is there an risks?

Well amazon makes billions they don't care about scamming people out of a few dollars. The risks are the shit requesters and the fact that if you get 3 blocks amazon can and will suspend your account immediately and take your money. So don't leave much on there.

>>8106870

The site itself runs on PST (california time) but good work is posted from all the normal work hours in america and all through the day as well. There is also international requesters that can post any time.

>>8106892

mturk stands for Mechanical Turk. It was some kind of middle ages chess troll. Go look it up on wiki it has nothing to do with turkish people.

What do you mean by blocks? As in they didn't approve of your hit?

Not OP, but general reference in terms of prices:

If minimum wage is $7.25/hr, that's $0.12/min.
So it seems that if a job pays $0.12 or less and is taking you 1min or more to complete, you're being paid less than minimum wage and it might not be worth it.

>>8106903
>take money
you mean the money I earned on there or whats on my paypal?

>>8106902

Yes exactly and no problem.

I'm not an international worker so I can't go into all the specifics of getting it set up as I'm just repeating what I've heard from rep sources. But I've met quite a few international workers from all over the world. there is even a map of 16000 workers from everywhere.

>>8106920

Block is when they make it so you can't accept any of their hits. When you try it sends you a generic message saying you have been blocked. Its used for spammers and such but sometimes requesters will block out of smite or just because you get like 1 or two hits wrong.

>>8106934

They can only seize whats in your amazon payments account when they suspend your account. Any gift cards in your amazon.com account are safe and of course they can't touch paypal.

>>8106936
That sounds a bit risky to do on my general account. Should I make a seperate so I don't have to worry about fucking up?

>>8106960

A separate amazon payments account? Yeah I would if I was you. If you use a amazon payments account for something else already. Before you do make sure you're allowed to have 2 though.

For those who don't know amazon payments was amazon.com's answer to paypal, but it sucks and isnt used much.

I just spend 30 minutes filling out a servery and it hit submit hit and a timer began counting and it erased everything it typed and it says i earned 0.00.

Did i just fuck up?

>>8106977
Nah I don't use it. At least I don't think I do. All I've ever done is shop with my debit card and never have I had to deal with it.

Thanks for the help by the way. Give me your your wishlist or something and if I make anything out of this I'll give you something back.

1) Where do you find the good hits

2) If you're in Europe, will vouchers only work for Amazon.com or are they transferable - in other words will I have to pay for shipping? I just want stuff, I'm not interested in money.

>>8107003

Sounds like maybe you didn't accept the hit before you started working on it?

The surveys can be good easy pay but a lot of times they pay shit. They can be fun to do sometimes though and theres always a ton.

>>8107006

Its cool you don't have to get me anything lol Its not like this is taking me hours of my times I'm bored anyways.

>>8107017

You Just have to search through the pile of crap and learn whats good and whats bad. At first it seems overwhelming but after a while you can easily spot the good shit.

Separate by most first and look at those ones, they are usually the better hits. Then if nothing is there you want, you can refresh the newest first and wait for shit to be posted. Thats how you snag a 100 dollar hit. Just the other day some guy was paying 200 to create a wikipedia page. He even gave you all the info. I didn't accept it in time though.

2. You can only use your gift cards at amazon.com at the moment. Which means you have to pay bad shipping prices. For anyone in europe I suggest the drop shipping method I talked about above and then buy shit yourself. Gift cards can pay for shipping by the way.

>>8107041

Fuck it I'll just pay for shipping with the gift cards.

If I'm losing 20% it probably won't make much difference. Saves the hassle of making loads of accounts.

I'm considering on doing this but i have a question or two.. I already have an account on amazon and I bought a few things with it with my debit card. Should I use this account with the website or should I make a new account and why should I do it or not do it. Also wth are hits and how do you make money?

I'm at the point where I don't care if this is legit or not... these are so fun!

>>8107089

> I already have an account on amazon and I bought a few things with it with my debit card. Should I use this account with the website

Yes you should. Your amazon.com account can't be seized if you epic fail on mturk. Its your mturk and amazon-payments accounts that they suspend. Its just easier to have 1 account hooked to everything so you're not confused. There is really no draw back.

> Also wth are hits and how do you make money?

Hit is what each individual job is called on mturk. Sorry I never explained.

HIT = Human Intelligence Test

You make money by completing hits. When they are approved you get paid. You can make money writing, transcribing audio, doing data entry or naming porn videos (seriously) its completely random.

There is actually a requester that posts hits where you count chickens...

>>8107091

I know they can be really fun. Just wait till your getting paid 10+ an hour then its epic.

So I'm creating an amazon account at this site and it tells me to fill in my personal information (home adress etc).

Can I just fill in fake information and change it later?

I just wanna try this shit out I'm not sure I'm gonna be buying anything.

I just make 5 us centidollars. In poland i rich!

Thanks so much for this... this stuff is a lot more interesting than what I usually do on the internet (porn, facebook)!

>>8107137
Thanks. Will try the website out tomorrow, I'm typing on my phone and its 3am ;_; .. How are you making $10/hr, does the pay increase for doing a lot of HITs or is there stuff that actually pay it on your first try?

>>8107165

You can't change it. So if you do you will have to make a new account later.

Its amazon do you really think they will scam you or spam your mailbox with ads? lol

Also for anyone wondering you can have more than 1 account going to 1 household. You can't however have more than 1 personal account. So if you have a roommate or something both of you can do it as long as you don't use the same personal info.

>>8107184

Sometimes requesters do send bonus payments if you do so many but generally no. The thing is those pennies your making a hit add up fast and you can easily be making 10+ an hour if you find the right work,

I did a .02 cent hit before that was paying a lot because you could finish the hit in a few seconds.

It's weird seeing this useless shit on /adv/.

How do I set my account to international?

>>8107245

Contact mturk and ask them about it.

https://www.mturk.com/mturk/contactus

>>8107227

Is this really any more useless than another relationshit thread?

>>8107262

Forgot my trip... for the third time... 4chrome really sucks.

What do you mean that if you're doing this internationally and thru amazon gifts, they might suspend your account and get everything in there? Can't I just get amazon items for this? Because getting 20% off for the pay is quite some damage, and most likely, I'll be using this to buy gadgets.

Thanks btw for posting this.
Random wallpaper for attention

What about taxes? How exactly does that work?

Do they come in the mail with the rest of the stuff? Or do you have to magically know all about them beforehand, and everything?

I'm worried about trying this out, because I never had to pay taxes before, since I never had a real job. (I'm a nanny for my two nephews)

Thanks man

>>8107304
No, what Turker said was that if you don't flag your account as international, they will suspend your account and take away your wages. But if your account is flagged as international, your only option is to use payment in gift certificates (I know because I just did it).

>>8107321
Same here, except I watch my brother and sister

>>8107304

Sorry that i'm not explaining this well. Getting gift cards as a international worker is your ONLY payment method available. For now anyways... If you try to get money any other way they will suspend your account. From what I have heard international workers are supposed to contact mturk and get their accounts switched to a international format that way they don't have to worry about that or tax information.

>>8107321

Taxes are a bit tricky. Ill give you the official story first.

You are technically a independent contractor working for all the requesters you do work for. When you file taxes you do so as self employed. The tax rate this year is around 11% thanks to obama but they suggest you keep 20% of your earnings and then when you do your taxes mail whatever you have to and the rest is like you income tax refund.

Now amazon DOES NOT report any of your earnings to the IRS. However if you make more than 600 dollars for any one requester they by law (some don't though) have to report your earnings to the IRS and should send you a tax form in the mail (they get this info from amazon).

So if you make 601 dollars from requester A. and 500 from requester B. within 1 tax years. The IRS will most likely only know about the 601 from requester A. If you don't file any taxes for requester A. the IRS can come bitch at you for their money. However they will never know about requester B. (more in next post)

OP, I am thinking about trying this.

I live with my boyfriend and he'd probably want to try it as well. You already said that you can have more than one account per household, but can you link multiple accounts to one bank account? I don't have a personal bank account so I'd like to be able to hook my mturk account to my boyfriend's bank account.

GUYS. They just paid me 25 cents to play a video game. I was to solve a puzzle as fast as possible. Idk what it was for. Felt like Zelda. Took me less than a minute whaaat.

This shit is fucking awesome. Thanks so much! It's a whole lot more interesting and fun than what I usually do on the internet (facebook and porn).

>>8107351

Now you yourself are legally supposed to report all your income even if you only made 6 dollars. However the IRS will never find out... So if you don't want to pay your taxes thats on you. If you get a tax form in the mail however you better pay taxes for at least that form as its reported and you are gonna be in deep shit if you don't.

Also down the line if you ever get audited they will tax this income...

So its up to you how you want to pay your taxes. I personally am paying it all but I know several people only pay for the reported income. There is also the chance one day the IRS will require amazon to send all your info to the IRS and if you didn't pay they will come find you.

(The IRS has been trying that with paypal for years with no success)

>>8107353

No unless its a joint bank account with both your names on it. You will have to get your own bank account or just blow your money on amazon.

>>8107375
So I automatically send in 11% of all of the combined money I make, and if I make any over 600, I wait for the form to come in the mail?

What if I accidentally send in too much, or too little? Will I get it back, or get a notification in the mail? Or am I just screwed?

I fucking suck at math.

>>8107375
Oh, damn. That sucks. I don't think I can get my name on it unless we're married.

>>8107391

Well when tax time comes you print out all the forms then you use turbotax or whatever put all your shit in, add in deductions and see what they say you owe. Whatever that is cut the IRS a check and mail it in, if you send too much the IRS will mail you back the difference. If you mail too little they will bitch for their money.

Deductions are sweet though... You can legally claim a computer as a tax deduction because you use it for work. I just bought a new computer and plan on deducting 30-40% of it as a business expense.

Never deduct 100% its a red flag and they will audit you.

> and if I make any over 600, I wait for the form to come in the mail?

Yup they should come before tax time. Don't worry taxes are actually quite easy to do with the software. If you really hate it you can always go to one of those tax places and they can do it for you.

I've got to go to sleep guys, its 4am here and I got work to do tomorrow (mturk)

So any last questions before I go? Ill check this thread in the morning if its still around.

>>8107412
>Hugs you

Thanks a lot! You are a lifesaver.

I copy and pasted all the links you posted, and will get started tomorrow.

But can you post all the important ones again, in case I missed any? Please?

>>8107428

Just google Turkopticon (the review site) and turk alert. Those are the only two that matter.

oh and of course www.mturk.com

There is also mturk forums and stuff if you want to join one of them.

>>8107438
Thanks again! I can't wait to start buying shit, lol.

OP how often do you do a hit, succeed at whatever it is/do a good job, but still not get paid? (i.e. get scammed by requesters?)

>>8107450

Very rarely. I've only actually got scammed like 3 times that I remember out of something like 14k hits completed.

I did get a mass rejection before of about 50 dollars worth of hits. After about 2 weeks of bitching however they reversed those and I got paid. Scams are usually obvious. As long as you only do work for workers with good reviews on turkopticon you are fine. If you find a new requester without any reviews do a few hits to test, if you get paid then great do more!

All hits auto approve within 30 days if the requester just leaves and never comes back. Most requesters approve within a week but some are slow and take 2-3.

I'm gonna head to bed guys. If you have more questions keep this thread alive and ill answer in the morning.

>>8107450
Not often. And I'm usually so angry that I never take another hit from them ever, so it's easily solved.

It happens less if you use turkopticon more.

Seems like the OP was heavy in with Dolores. In general, I hate them. There are two types of turking.

1. lots of hits for little money each

(note how in OPs screenshots he's doing hundreds of hits for maybe 20$. .02 per hit isn't even worth the loading-time to me)

2. only doing shit you actually find interesting, and risking the larger rejections.

I don't know how much has been said on the second method. If you have either decent writing skills or are adept at transcription, you can work on larger projects that are more rewarding and pay much more. Basically you do a few junk hits VERY well for a certain requester, they favorite you, and then qualify you to work on "smart people only" jobs.

>>8107546
Do you need any special skills to do this stuff? I am very technologically ignorant, it took me forever to even figure out facebook and LJ.

But once I do figure it out, I can do the same thing over and over and over again all day long. (hence my addiction to 4chan)

So will this be hard for me? Or will it be ok once I figure it out?

>>8107569
You'd probably like the repetition method then. It's very easy, just keep your search on "Most hits" which is default anyway. That way tasks where you can do the same thing over and over thousands of times will be at the front

>>8107589
Sweeet, also, how do you tell the ratio of profits vs time spent working?

Does it tell you how long a hit will take, as well as how much it pays?

Guys, I do have to put in my opinion that this stuff is for Indians.

Spend your time doing something useful.

>>8107607
>implying this isn't useful.

Bump

Another anon here who has looked into this shit. Honestly, just get a regular job. The time it takes to complete the essays they give you or whatever is going to pay well below minimum wage. Op has got to be some sort of marketer.

>>8108121

OP freely admitted it's no replacement for real work.

>>8108121
This basically pretty useful to a kid living at home that doesn't want to leave the house to get a formal job, but doesn't have marketable skills like programming.
Or a regular guy with a regular job that wants to supplement their income. So instead of working to formal jobs (one paying significantly less) you try OP's suggestion and basically work for however long you'd like, earning as much as you can by trying to find the best deals.
If you're strapped for time, can't imagine that this would work out, tho.

but it says: At this time Mechanical Turk does not support Requesters from countries outside the United States

how do i register?

bump so the thread doesn't 404 for OP.

>>8106022

jesus, if I could make 1k a month I could make my ends meet.

googled it, seems legit...going to look into this.

thanks OP!

Alright I'm back.

>>8107546

>Seems like the OP was heavy in with Dolores.

How dare you! lol No I never do shit hits like that. Only hits that I can make minimum wage at least which is not dolores labs.

Don't rule out all .02 cent hits they can sometimes pay nice, its worth a look when you see a new one.

>>8108724

Your not signing up as a requester your signing up as a worker.

>>8108121

You just have to take the time to learn the system. Like I said 99% of the work is SHIT. But that 1% is fucking EPIC. I'm not saying make this your regular job but if you need some money to get your life moving then this is perfect for you.

https://www.mturk.com/mturk/preview?groupId=279O8JIA0RYNXRIHC3D0BBMMTXQ050

For you noobs here is some good work. I can do 2 of these a minute. Thats around 12 an hour. Best part is these always go by slow because no one realizes they are fast.

Why should I bother with this if I'm scandinavian?

I live so far away from the US it's not funny, I imagine the shipping costs must be pretty insane.

>>8109706

It is but if you dropship on eBay and take the money you only lose like 20%.

>>8109731
Okay just wanna make sure I got a good understanding of how this dropship thing works
So I
* Look for products on amazon that people might wanna buy
* I advertise said products on eBay
* Someone wants to buy them
* I buy the items from amazon, but enter their shipping adress instead of my own
* Person on eBay pays me
?????
Profit?

>>8109815

Yes exactly. Its that easy. Look for things that are really popular in electronics, find something that is cheaper then on eBay (not by a lot but just a little) then sell it. Once you get all the fees out of the way you will lose around 20% less if you find some epic deals on amazon.

>>8109840
Tnx man. Definetely gonna try this out.

>>8109840
This may be a retarded question, but.. What fees? Or do you mean that you have to lower the price because otherwise people might as well buy their stuff on Amazon themselves?

>>8109874

ebay has listing fees, final value fees, paypal has fees, currency conversion fees. It all adds up to around 20%

Is this HIT serious? It brings to mind The Men Who Stare at Goats. I think I might draw a man staring at a goat and submit it.

Having registered to this I just have two questions

One - I set my location to non-US when registering and it put me through an additional verification spiel where I provided my local address, name and confirmed that I have zero ties with the US - does that mean my account was already set as International? It already shows "Transfer your earnings to your Amazon.com gift certificate balance" as the only withdrawal option.

And two - is there a way to filter out Hits that I have no way of qualifying for? Namely the majority which seem to require my location to be set to US

>>8109936

Probably. Theres a lot of universities that post surveys and shit and do little studies.

>>8109941

1. Thats great, I guess they added that in. When i started you had to contact. But yeah your set to international don't worry.

2. Click "hits available to you" at the top.

>>8109979
>2. Click "hits available to you" at the top.

Obviously enough. But that also sorts out everything that I might qualify for after doing their test or whatever, and the ones open to anyone by default seem to be the crappier ones.

When I try to view my tax status it says: "Your account does not need to submit information for tax reporting."

Does that mean my account has been flagged as international?

Omg does this shit actually work?

Thanks op /adv/ is actually useful for a change

>>8109673

What do you write for the reasoning behind your selections?

>>8110047

Yeah thats the down side =/

>>8110060

Did you create an international account? Then yes. If you didn't I would see if it still gives you the option to input your tax info.

>>8110061

Yeah check the screenshots.

>>8110078
Yeah I did set it to international, guess everything's fine then.

>>8110075

Something like "A had the most relevant results" "All had several relevant results" "None had a relevant result."

Are you serious? How do you make 700 a month off of mturk? Because from what I've seen, it was bullshit

>>8110162
You must be picking the hits that are only worth 2 or 3 cents each.

There are some that are 20 dollars a hit. You just have to learn to find the good ones.

>>8110162

You only do the good work when its posted and don't waste your time doing work for slave wages.

Like i said before 99% of mturk jobs are crap. But that 1% is epic. Once you learn how to wade through the sea of crap and pick out the good jobs you will start making some serious money.

>>8110177
so does this mean 1$ hits are pointless?

>>8110182
Depends, is it 1 dollar for a hit that takes an hour to do?

Or 1 dollar for a hit that takes two minutes to fill out?

If you do 1 dollar hits every two minutes for three hours, then yeah.

Or at least that's what it looks like how it works. I haven't tried it myself yet, but am seriously looking into it.

>>8110182

Any hit can be worth a lot. You need to remember mturk is a crowdsourcing website. Its meant for MICRO jobs. Not full time hourly work. Although that gets posted too.

A hit that pays 10 dollars that takes 4 hours is shit. A hit that pays .10 cents but takes 30 seconds is far better then that 10 dollar hit.

So don't rule any job out just because it appears to pay crap. Even .02 cent work can pay well sometimes. Although generally in my experience .01 cent hits don't make enough to be worth it unless they are extremely fast.

This seems legit, thanks OP!
Also, if anyone wants a similar website, usertesting have a similar scheme where moderately big websites use you to test betas of their sites and new projects. It's $10 a test, for sure, unless you're terrible. You need a good mic as well.
http://accounts.usertesting.com/

Seriously, not a troll.

how long does it take for your hit to be approved and you get your money?

>>8110222

Depends on the requester. Most requesters approve within a couple days. Some can take 2 weeks. Max is 1 month but thats very rare.

Once your work is approved it takes 12 hours max but usually only a couple for amazon to transfer the money into your payments account and then you can blow it.

For new accounts though there is a like 3 day delay for getting paid, that goes away after the 10 day period is over (doing 1 hit at least a day)

Can you explain the dropship a little more? Say im an Australian doing this, would this be my process?
1. do HITS and make money
2. find item on amazon, then list same item on ebay for same price
3.once i find seller on ebay, use my amazon gift cards to buy item on amazon but change shipping address to seller on ebay
4. get money from ebay

Would i use australian ebay or does it matter? thanks

>>8110306

Yes thats it

You would use US ebay.

Once someone buys your product and sends you the money on paypal you buy the item on amazon and ship it to their house.

They receive it and leave good feedback and then you can do whatever with your money on paypal. Set your shipping address to some generic location in the US. Bonus points if its the white house.

The money you earn is stored in your Amazon.com account.

-Transfer your earnings to your Amazon.com gift certificate balance
-View your account balance and transaction history

Do these settings indicated that i am set to international? (which is what i want)

>>8110398

Yes because if not it would say something about transferring to bank account. Ill screen shot mine 1 sec.

>>8110404
>>8110420
Do you need a bank account, or can you use a paypal account?

What's the difference between the two?

Can you still use your bank account to order stuff online?

>>8110441

Amazon won't transfer to paypal.

They send your money (if your US) to amazon payments. From amazon payments you can withdraw to a bank account or blow your money on amazon through gift cards.

From amazon-payments you can withdraw your money to your own bank account and then spend it with a debit card or upload to paypal or whatever.

So you don't NEED a bank account but id advise you to get one eventually.

>>8110420
cheers boss, apart from using turkalert and turkopticon are there any other methods of finding the best jobs? or if you could make a summary of finding the best jobs that would be sweet.

I GOT $.39 IM FUCKING RICH BITCH

>>8110460

As i said before the most important part is being available through out the day to do the work. There is no magic way to find the jobs you just have to learn whats bad work and good work so you can spot it easily.

What i do when I check mturk is I switch to most first and scroll through all the results to see if anything looks good to me. I go until im around 500 hits per listing. Then I consider it crap and go watch newest first and see whats being posted at the moment.

If you stalk newest first and refresh it a lot you can snag high paying work like transcription jobs that can be like 75 dollars each but its rare. I do the surveys that come up to kill time too.

You will find a method that works for you but most important for starting out is getting hits done even if they are shit hits. A lot of requesters have requirements that are like 1000 hits done. So you want to get a few done as soon as possible.

Once you find a requester you like, add them to turkalert and get e-mails when they post new jobs. Before you do any huge batch of hits for a requester make sure you check their reviews on turkopticon.

I fucking hate dumbfuck american sites where i have to fill out a state/region/province. THERE'S NO SUCH THING IN SWEDEN.

>>8110497
So how will I how a rough idea on how much money i will make per hour? what type of $$ should i be looking at per hit depending on how fast i can do the task

I am in college and currently have in my possession a large amount of oxycontin.
My peers all want this.

Should I supply the demand and make mad moneys or just use it for my kidney stone like I'm supposed to?

>>8110595

Minimum wage is .12 cents a minute. So if you can make that on any hit you know your making 7.25 an hour. to figure your hourly rate test a hit and see how long it takes you to do it then see what that is an hour. Make sure you test a few as sometimes you might get a longer hit but others are fast.

>>8110617

Definitely sell that shit.

>>8110633
I don't think you are aware of how horribly kidney stones hurt...

>>8110643
i think you know in your heart what the right thing to do is thent

>>8110643

I don't but I love money and have a high pain tolerance. So laying in bed in agony is worth it if the pay is nice.

>>8110633
ok thanks i think thats all the questions i need.. gonna go sleep now

Alright guys I gotta go get some work done. Be back soon.

>>8110654
Imagine being stabbed in the kidney repeatedly. I thought I had a "high pain tolerance" too. No matter how tough you are, the stone is tougher. For your sake, cut down on the sugar and greasy foods and drink more water...you do not want to experience this.

Anyway, I like money too..and I currently have none. Which is why I'm considering caving to pressure and just selling this shit. Until then I've told everyone who keeps riding my ass about it to wait until the stone is out so I don't have to worry about pain anymore.
I'm conflicted about this whole thing..seriously.

The fact that I've been trading them for other drugs like a dumbass isn't doing much to dissuade people, either.

>>8110688
>Referring to mturk slavery as work

>>8106299
>Label porn screenshots
DOING THIS SO HARD.
>I Hope My Boss Doesn't Walk In.jpg
>Trying This Next Time.jpg
>Pizza's Here.jpg

Anyway, this is Amazon, so probably not a scam, and stupid, so probably not for anyone who has pride.
But I need 2000 dollars and I need to get a job. This will be a good thing to do in the meantime, and hopefully with more money, I'll be happier, confident and more capable of getting a real job.


Some of these actually seem kind of fun.
Create a music playlist based on moods?

Some seem pretty easy.
Record a 104 minute long audio to text?

Some sound hinky.
Make a credit profile? Sounds like they want to pay me for paying them for their bullshit service.

>>8110701
While I don't approve of drug dealing or drug use, and I prefer to let my own horrible agony continue instead of taking pills--so that when I'm in TRULY horrible agony after a surgery, any drugs I take will be pure bliss, instead of diluted through years of use--why not do the smart thing?

Take half, sell the rest.
I mean, it's not like you have to do 100% one or the other.

>>8110828
>I prefer to let my own horrible agony continue instead of taking pills--so that when I'm in TRULY horrible agony after a surgery, any drugs I take will be pure bliss, instead of diluted through years of use--why not do the smart thing?

Man, if only you knew what kind of pain I woke up in last Sunday..
Strange thing, I haven't had any pain since. I haven't actually had to take them. Which is why I'm considering just selling them..

I normally don't approve of drug dealing either..which is why I'm reluctant. Not that I'm a shining example of sobriety, but the thought of somebody I know ending up in the hospital because of this scares the shit out of me.

>>8110852
>Man, if only you knew what kind of pain I woke up in last Sunday..
Never had a kidney stone that I know of, though I have had pain in that area, so I assume they just broke up.
But I've scrapped skin off, broken my toe, twisted my ankle, broken OTHER toes at the same time, had half a toothpick wedged in the front of my foot, and on the subject of toes, I think mine is currently infected

Although the throbbing pain has since gone down.


Anyway, has anyone besides Turker done this? I'll admit I sort of skipped most of the thread.

>mfw work for an hour get 52 cents.

Also, is there a penalty for choosing a HIT and then not doing it?

I kind of want to just take the most expensive HIT and do it, but not if I end up failing.

>mfw I just now got that this is a reference to The Turk.
Ooooh.

>>8110906
>Implying any of that is in any way comparable to a sharp crystal scraping the inside of your kidney then slowly traveling down your urinary track, and ultimately popping out of your urethra in a stream of blood and piss.

My roommate has decided he's going to call everyone we know when it finally pops out so they can stand around the bathroom and listen to me scream.

>>8105566
i dont understand, the list of hits is just stuff like "find a url for a radio programme" meaning i would get payed $0.02 for using google?

>>8110906
Oh god, that looks so disgusting, but for some reason I love it when shit like that happens to me.

No idea why, but I get some kind of sick satisfaction from squeezing until blood, puss, and ooze comes out.

>>8110939
I'm aware of what a kidney stone is. My mom used to get them every couple of months.

Although broken bones that keep you from walking, and then walking on them anyway is really, really painful.
Also, on the subject of dick pain? Remember those old Hot Wheels toys that were monster trucks with tails, and when you pulled the tail down they'd pop up and have teeth and then snap back down?

My molesty friend bit me in the dick with one of them.
That was... an interesting pian.

An hours work just got me 1.42 cents.

AMAZING

>>8105566
do i need to be 18?

>>8110939
>>8110906
>>8110852

Wouldn't there be huge admin costs for breaking huge tasks up into smaller tasks, or do they have some automated way of doing that?

>>8111000

This op, what am I doing wrong?

>>8110985
I bet you REALLY don't want to watch Transformers Prime then, cause you will have nightmares of this guy chomping your dick off with his shark teeth.

>>8111000
You're probably just doing shit work

>>8111071
This. Sub-.05c work generally isn't worth it, period.

>>8111071

Let's aim for 5 dollars an hour. 5/60= 8 cents a minute. None of these shitty jobs pay that.

I'm under 18, will I get fucked in the ass for this or shall I just used my parents details or some shit? 18 in 2 months but I wanna give this a go.

>>8111083
$5/hr is an easy goal. Most of the stuff is .04-.10 cents/30-45 seconds.

That's about .12-.14c a minute. About $7/hr. This is constant work though.

I worked for about half an hour doing .05c/30-45seconds and I wanted to shoot myself in the face.
:/

>>8111094
>>8111094
somebody help us :(

back guys.

>>8111094

You can use your parents details no problem. Then in 2 months make your own account.

To the people not making 7 an hour. Your noobs... you need to realize its gonna take a few days to learn the system and get some hits done to do the better work.

You guys from the US should be able to do this hit.

https://www.mturk.com/mturk/preview?groupId=279O8JIA0RYNXRIHC3D0BBMMTXQ050

It takes me 30 seconds for .10 cents which is 12 an hour. if your slow it would take 1 minute and you would make 6 an hour.

>>8111036

Apparently not because huge jobs are posted all the time. Some are even completely automated.

>>8109673
>Location is US
Fuck your nigger ass racist bullshit shit

>live in europe
>Shitty ass low-wage HITs
>mfw

>>8111138

Yeah I know it sucks =( But they do post hits that outside US can do that pay good. Most have qualification tests though to weed out the Indians.

>>8111134
answer for me
>>8110974

What if I take a survey that doesn't apply to me?

Like I just saw a short one about men over 45 with ED that payed a dollar, would they check up on that?

>>8110974

Yes precisely. A lot of the work is simple shit like that, Google searches or putting info in a database.

>>8111152

They can't tell how old you are, so you can lie and take it but watch for any trick questions or anything if they think you're lying they will reject your survey.

>>8111150
You there.

What happens if I don't do well? If I sign up for a HIT and just don't do anything, does that effect my score?

Notice how often OP drops trip and accidentally forgets to re-trip.

Obvious samefag astroturfing viral faggotry going on here.

>>8111163
excuse my retardation, but how do i accept a HiT? all i see is contact

>>8111164

Nope the only thing that effects your scores is submitting hits that get rejected. There is no score based on how many you do a day or anything.

If you return or abandon hits it usually doesn't effect your score unless you do it so much that it becomes a large percentage of your hits. Like say you abandon 30% of your hits that could be a big problem...

Generally you want to keep a rating of 99% approved. Any less then that and you can start missing out on hits that require 99% approved.

>>8111167

Thats because I use the 4chrome addon...

>>8111178

Click view hit in the right hand corner, when it opens in the next page hit accept at the top if you want to do it.

How can I find jobs that aren't shit? Best I've found so far is $3 for 35 minutes, and I had to know hebrew.

The rest are like 1 cent a minute... no thanks.

Also, does the fact the link is https mean anything to anyone? Like, fake URL?

>>8111207

http is the standard URL format so thats safe. its what comes after http that matters.

You need to look through the sea of crap and find the good work. It takes time but thats only because your new and everything looks like a sea of crap. However most crap is posted again and again so you never have to look at it again. Then you just wait for the new shit to get posted.

>>8109673

$0.10 each? what?

In my region I'd get like 0.01 for that. Fuck this racist site.

>>8111207
https means the page is secure.
There's probably a lock and green text there, right?

lol you guys are fucking dumb

i just read a bit of the thread, and you need to give your social security info and your bank account info to amazon.

are you guys retarded or what? it's not because it's fucking amazon that it makes it any more safe.

besides, 0.2 cents per each fucking thing? are you guys out of your fucking mind?

like that guy said, you'll probably spend more money on electricity than you make out of this stupid shit.

lol 5 dollars an hour shit. are you guys that fucking desperate? and you have to click shit and have your eyes on a fucking computer screen the whole time. you're going to be like a cheap 1 dollar per hour chinese workers.

fuck guys, you need money to make money in this world. if you want to make easy money that's a lot safer than giving your fucking social security and bank account info to a fucking random company, start selling shit.

25 bucks? i make 20 times that doing absolutely fucking nothing except having someone drive me around to see people. i take a fucking break whenever i want, i turn down people whenever i want, i start and finish whenever i want, and i eat any restaurant 2-3 times a day. at the end of the day, i got 1000 bucks in my pockets out of which 600-700 are mine, and i go home to do a big fat fucking line of 24mg of hydromorphone, and then i order some food while renting some movies. every day.

while you spend your days on a fucking computer making 0.1 cent an hour.

lol

>>8111312

>that's a lot safer than giving your fucking social security and bank account info to a fucking random company

I lol'd

Doing an audio transcription one now, 48 mins for 15 bucks.

I better actually get payed for this shit.

>>8111335

Oh shit nigga. you should be doing like 10 minutes of audio for 8 dollars. I was paid like 45 dollars for 40 minutes of audio last time I did a transcription hit.

>>8111312
hey calm down man youre so angry.

>>8111312
For your information, Amazon already had my info, I just needed to activate my email for this thing.

>>8111312
So what are some better options?

>>8111361
fuck off OP.

Okay so i've been doing some 5 cents a pop stuff that only takes 30 or so seconds. £3.80 a minute is just below minimum wage, but I can take it I guess. How can I find the real deal?