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You could try amazon mechanical turk It is safer in terms of virus risk than online surveys. The money you earn can go to an account or to Amazon gift cards. I do it from time to time when I am watching TV and have made a bit of extra cash.
doesn't scale
user base can be no more than 10-100
any more than that and the forums wage war on you as the spammer you are
having said that, there's mechanical turk
https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome
i've often wondered when contemplating google's self-driving car and the problems that project faces, if they could just stream all of the telemetry to some guy sitting in a cube farm, and have him drive the car. kind of like what the US military does with drones
You've got the WHOLE day for 2 weeks?
Mturk. (If you're from the US)
https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome
Other than that you can do some surveys.
ClixSense is the best I know of ($0.85/survey):
Ref: http://www.clixsense.com/?7059259
Non-ref: http://www.clixsense.com/
Other than that maybe InstaGC:
You should strongly consider Amazon's Mechanical Turk where you can pay money to get people to take your survey. I've never seen a survey on /r/SampleSize get close to 3000 responses.
Firms are, by design, poor at attributing absolute value to its constituent parts. Firms exist to eliminate transaction costs and reduce friction within its boundaries (see Coase's theory of the firm). But, as firm size increases, and data becomes cheaper and easier to consume, can a firm evaluate each constituent part more reliably? What would such a firm look like?
Amazon is on the forefront of answering this question in the white-collar space. Unlike most tech companies, Amazon is moving towards treating its employees like freelancers on its task marketplace (Amazon's Mechanical Turk). The ideal is to have people be paid exactly in proportion to the value of work they have provided to the company within the past month or quarter.
But in a white collar world, euphemisms and justifications must be supplied to avoid sounding cold-hearted and to deflect the negative press from firing the sick and care-giving the moment they become less productive. This is where the 14 Leadership Principles come in. They are vague and contradictory enough to defend any decision where the root cause was a number being too low on a spreadsheet.
All that said, the fruits of this system have been unrivaled for us as consumers, at the cost of the expendable employees.
It was mostly about my math skills and political beliefs. This was thrown in there and I was caught off guard.
EDIT: What goldflakes is saying is true. I looked into it and the researcher who created the survey goldflakes links also created the survey I took. However, the questions are a bit different in the two surveys because his link is entirely based on morality questions like this.
Here is a Link to the researcher in question. The first HIT is my survey and the second HIT is goldflakes'.
EDIT2: I also think the math section was to somewhat test morals as well, apparently the answer to the questions were located on the screen and they ask you if it is ok to use them.
Something not many people know about is the Amazon Mechanical Turk service. Have a little free time? Help out some people by doing small tasks that are hard for computers to do but pretty easy for people. It's a good way to make a little extra cash without even leaving your computer.
Check out /r/beermoney as well. It's beermoney for a reason - not going to earn you a lot, but given your tight budget, it could make a difference. Between surveys on mturk and Prolific Academic I make $50-$75/month. There are other sites, too, but I've found these to be the best for me (especially PA). For mturk, if you have Amazon Prime, make sure to sign up using that account, then if you want to use your mturk payments on there, you get Prime. For PA, check their survey page several times a day and do whatever it says you're eligible for; I'd say most days I snag one survey, some days none, and occasionally 3 or 4, just checking when I'm taking a break during the day.
If you can do basic cooking, I'd be glad to send you a few of my more cost-effective recipes, just PM me.
There are like 30 dudes in ~~the back~~ China just monitoring cameras adding shit to your account
Remember Amazon run Mechanical Turk and their slogan is 'Artificial artificial intelligence'
It's plain and simple. Somebody turned https://www.mturk.com back on Amazon. Cheap Asian labour used to stuff reviews/ratings. Where I live (a third world junk-hole), they have companies recruiting people just to write junk reviews all day long and get paid "sitting at home".
According to the Terms of Service (https://www.mturk.com/mturk/help?helpPage=policies) this HIT is a violation. You can definitely mark it, but it will likely stay up anyways. Amazon doesn't seem to do much when it comes to HITs like that.
I wonder why they don't consider hiring workers from Amazon's Mechanical Turk program for handling portal submissions. Turkers would do a great job and process each one for pennies.
Sure thing. Mechanical Turk is a subsidiary of Amazon. You have to sign up and get verified for taxes, and then you are good to go. Anyone can do it, but you have to be efficient to make any real money.
First you need a series of scripts to help give you important information and help you find the best "hits." Hits are jobs, and each one pays a small amount. In a given day you will do 100+ hits to make a few bucks.
"Batches" are penny-.07cent jobs that take a matter of seconds each, and you do them in mass.
Surveys pay much more but take much longer.
In general those are the two types of jobs you will be doing.
I have here some very useful links for you:
Type in a few (20?) contacts now, see how long it takes to get an estimate of entries/hour. Divide that into 20,000 and multiply by how much you think you can get per hour.
Like if it takes 20 seconds per entry, it will take 111 hours. Min wage is $7.25, figure $10 is good. $1,000.
Or just put bids out on Mechanical Turk, for some low price, find some other dude to do it for you, charge $750 and keep the profit.
I recently strongly discouraged a friend from paying for one of those "affiliate marketing" courses, because although it's true that you can make money, it's something like 2 cents a click, so you have to have Ashton Kutcher's twitter account or be really, really committed to spamming. Basically anything that you have to pay for the privilege of working is 99% a scam.
I have made money online, but nowhere near $1000 a month - at my peak working for ChaCha I could average close to $7 an hour but the work is not steady. KGB paid better but you were assigned a "shift" rather than working when you could with ChaCha and I could never make it work for me. There is Mechanical Turk which does have a lot of jobs (and seems to favor Americans/native English speakers strongly) which pays crap (I think I made 5 cents per phone number verification which took between 10 seconds and 10 minutes each, for example) but the jobs are easy and plentiful, and if you have particular skills like translation you can do pretty well.
I have made very little money from online surveys as well, those generally pay in "points" that work out to be something like 10 cents a survey. I can recommend several sites that have actually paid me if you want. I also do mystery shopping (which does involve leaving the house so may not be feasible if there are mobility issues) which pays more (I probably average $20-$30 per shop which takes me 30-60 minutes each).
Again, I firmly believe that anything you have to pay them to work is a scam.
Believe it or not a lot of the workers are Americans, and aren't sweat shop workers or anything. http://www.captchatrader.com and http://www.megatypers.com are 2 popular ones. Anyone can sign up and solve captchas for money.
It's part of a new and growing kind of online unskilled labor market known as "mechanical turking," popularized by Amazon: https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome
There's no doubt that certain services are using East Asian sweatshops and such though. I'm pretty sure DeCaptcha does.
There was a private school in New York that uploaded scans of student records to Mechanical Turk for digitization.
Could have stolen so many identities with that data.
Yeah, real WTF moment when I saw the description:
> 6/16/2016 15:16 PT
HIT: Look up credentials of real estate agents (Bonus Opportunity) - https://www.mturk.com/mturk/preview?groupId=3JT76DKK11Q79S4XM2SOANA4PPSND5
Requester: Luis Lopez - https://www.mturk.com/mturk/searchbar?selectedSearchType=hitgroups&requesterId=A14MRFRRZ0ITJ3
TO Ratings: Pay=1.0 Fair=0.0 Comm=0.0 Speed=0.0 - http://turkopticon.ucsd.edu/A14MRFRRZ0ITJ3
Time Allotted: 1 hour 30 minutes
Reward: $0.00
HITs Available: 2371
Description: "Look up and write down the credentials of 10 real estate agents. Worker with the highest number of accurate hits receives $25, second highest receives $5, and third highest gets $1. Others receive experience. Bonus is given 3 days after all HITs expire."
Keywords: "data collection, bonus"
Qualifications: none
What an ass.
Nope.
What are some specific examples of HITs that violate Amazon Mechanical Turk policies?
- HITs that violate the terms and conditions of an activity or website (for instance asking Workers to vote for something)
- HITs that ask Workers to take action to manipulate a website's behavior or results
https://www.mturk.com/mturk/help?helpPage=policies
https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome
you won't get rich off it but it's definitely easy money. you do little data entry type tasks and surveys for small amounts of cash. if you stay focused doing them you can almost make minimum wage. and it converts to amazon credits or you can link up your bank account and get cash money.
https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome
I've been using this on and off for about two years, I can make about 10-15 dollars a day, during the school year when the Universities need test subjects. The work will be slow at first, but once you get your numbers up, and depending on what quals you get you can make so much more than that.
http://www.reddit.com/r/mturk/
good resource page.
I honestly don't understand how you could do 6 hits in 5 hours. Even before I had scripts I did more than that... You really need to go read /r/mturk and see read through the beginners posts.
A quick start:
Go download Tampermonkey and install the hitscraper and turkmaster scripts
Go here: https://www.mturk.com/mturk/findhits?match=true?hit_scraper
Set the auto-refresh delay to something like 10-15 seconds, and pages to scrape up to 5-10. (Different people like different things, I found this good when starting out). Select "Hide masters" and "qualified". Select minimum reward as 0.01 (or whatever you want really, there are some good $0.10 hits so I wouldn't go above that) Select a "Search by". I go with "reward".
Hit start
Look for hits that are dark green or at least light green. Hover over the "TO Pay" and make sure they have pretty high stats. If it's below 5.0 on fairness, I would quickly check why (make sure there's no mass rejections). Otherwise accept what looks good.
Have you tried Clickworker, mTurk or UserTesting? All online and could work for you!
Also check out the subs /r/WorkOnline and /r/beermoney!
When you do this type of work, you act as sort of a "consultant" - a number with a bank account that various companies send menial tasks for ~10cents a pop. Look up amazon's mechanical turk. Basically how it works is if you are a company/person/entity that has a lot of menial work done that is worthless for a salaried employee to work on, but just slightly too complex for a computer to figure out, then you post this work out piecemeal for people to complete and send back to you.
I have worked on Amazon's mechanical turk a bit, mainly out of curiosity, but also if I'm bored and there is a new kindle book I want I will spend a half hour identifying whether pictures have males or females in this, or writing out the contents of scanned receipts, or printing people's names after looking at scanned images of their signatures... People can actually make a decent amount of money (not six figs, but enough for stay at home moms) if they are good writers and can write reviews/essays/etc quickly.
It looks like this is the one? https://www.mturk.com/mturk/preview?groupId=37T7WAXICGGP9QB9RM51MQR489QY23
First, you have the Masters qualification on it which is going to greatly reduce the number of workers who are eligible to accept it. It's Saturday morning and MTurk is notoriously slow on weekends and holidays. It's much more active during normal business hours.
Also, I opened it and the first thing I see is a writing task. Personally, I'd have to be paid more than $0.20 for writing work (especially if it's then followed by more questions which I didn't see because I closed the tab as soon as I saw the writing part).
Because Grey was wondering where the location data for the exact entrances for the subway might come from: Let me intruduce you to amazon mechanical turk, where you can pay people to do repetitive tedious stuff that you don't want to deal with.
The npr podcast 'planet money' did an episode about it half a year ago and this sound like exactly the task you could solve with a crowdlabour solution like the mechanical turk platform. It seems that a lot of stuff that you would think is or should be automated till now is actually still done by humans to earn some beermoney.
I am sure apple used not exactly this, but at least something very similar. Or they enslaved interns for a few days.
as I recall this IS a HWTF but I could be wrong - her is the direct link. no need to encourage this scammer.
A lot of places are probably hiring part time people for seasonal work. You should be less vague.
Uber/Lyft
If you want to make minimum wage at your computer you can try Amazon's Mechcanical Turk:
You need to right-click on the survey links inside HITs and choose 'open in new tab'. It sounds like you've been accidentally taking the survey inside the HIT iframes, which then hides the form you're supposed to use to submit them.
Learn how to contact requesters. Clicking on 'show all details' (when viewing the search results page where you found the HIT) and then clicking on 'Contact the Requester of this HIT' is what you need.
Get in the habit of opening the HITs in new tabs too. That way you still have the search results page open if you need the contact link. You don't have to return a HIT just to look at something else. And you can reopen a HIT you haven't returned by going to your queue: HITs Assigned To You.
Contacting MTurk support about stuff like this will accomplish nothing. I expect that some time in the next few days you will receive a completely unhelpful reply from them, probably saying you need to contact the requester.
If you're fast at typing, there's a lot of online transcription jobs. You can also sign up for this thing called amazon mechanical turk that pays you per job you complete. There's quite a few transcription jobs there, but there's other stuff too.
You might have trouble with hours requirements in retail. They are usually the antithesis of flexible in terms of hours, unfortunately.
One option that could provide flexibility for a short evening shift is possibly a local restaurant. I'd pursue only local restaurants, as chain restaurants usually have greater need and longer hours. But local restaurants may only need an extra server from 6-10 or something and on weekends.
It probably won't net you gobs of cash in a slower restaurant, but on a busy Saturday in the right restaurant, you can bust $100 in a night. That said, it is tiring and physically demanding work. If you aren't good with people or if they stress you out, don't do this as it will put you through the ringer (says experience!).
Another option is possibly Amazon's Mechanical Turk? It's from home, so that's super nice. You take surveys and do little tasks that require human cognition (can't be done by a machine) for little amounts of money.
I tried it maybe a year and a half ago and made about $40 in three weeks, though I wasn't pursuing it aggressively, either. Again, not gobs of cash by any means. And it could be tough to extract the money, lacking a bank account? I don't quite remember the process for that. There's a subreddit pair for that -- /r/mturk and /r/HITsWorthTurkingFor.
I use Amazon Mturk to make extra money. https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome I made over a $1,000 last year doing it in my free time. They are basically human intelligence tasks. I highly recommend doing it for extra money. Average pay is $6 an hour.
Amazon uses low-wage workers for mechanical turk. These workers often don't have bank accounts, so Amazon pays them in Amazon points/credits of some sort. But these people don't want Amazon credits, they want money. Purse realized this and created a platform to match sellers of Amazon credits with the only currency people without bank accounts can use electronically: Bitcoin.
[As for the discount, that results from the mturk workers being willing to take a hit in order to get access to real money (Bitcoin).]
Not the best idea for your friend to do this, even if he/she didn't get caught by the bank.
Is there really no way for your friend to make $18 by Feb 3? Pretty sure they can use some of their downtime to do busywork for Amazon' mechanical turk?
It won't be easy money but they can definitely make $20 in a few nights to take care of their bill the right way.
stop posting these "batch hits" separately if they come from the exact same requester with the same criteria just use ths search link as the adf.ly link
https://www.mturk.com/mturk/searchbar?selectedSearchType=hitgroups&searchWords=+Tai+Mahi
The way to spot fake positive reviews is usually by looking for date clustering and lack of variability in the ratings.
I am sure it's just a coincidence when 100 people gave a 5 star rating on May 7th, and that none of them bothered to leave a comment. And if you click on a couple of them you'll see that they are from New York, Las Vegas, Miami Beach, Ohio...
They must be wonderful if people travel from across the world to use their services.
Either that or someone is using Amazon Mechanical Turk (https://www.mturk.com/) for fake reviews. Nah...
Now that is one freaking awesome Hit. Thanks a ton!
And for those asking for the qual, here ya go, direct link https://www.mturk.com/mturk/requestqualification?qualificationId=3SLOKZOOP984P4MVV1L5OBPF1ORB9F
Just to add to what the others have said: Asking for personal information is against the terms of service, see this page:
https://www.mturk.com/mturk/help?helpPage=policies
(I refer to it often enough to have it bookmarked.)
If you ever get another hit like this DON'T give out any personal information and DO return the hit - after reporting it as a TOS violation (there's a link at the bottom of the hit page). And then leave a TO review about it, including a flag there too.
Are these your HITs?
If so, a worker has just under 25 seconds to accept and load the HIT, click on the linkedin URL to find the person's name that you're looking for, then go to a different site and hope that they can find an email address for said person, then they have to visit yet another site, copy and paste four fields of data to verify it, then paste all of the data in to the HIT, submit it and wait up to 24 hours for you to 'review for accuracy!' to see if they'll actually be paid the nickel for their work; just to earn US minimum wage.
> maybe Im not paying enough
You're not.
If you're over 18 this is what I do to buy tweaks.
- Sign up for mturk
- Set up amazon payments account
- go to /r/HITsWorthTurkingFor (you'll probably need to do a couple ones on your own before you can qualify for these)
- make nickels and dimes until you enough for a tweak
- have paid tweaks on your phone
This is how I paid for HomeScreenDesigner, Flaticons, DefaultSBpage, Colorkeyboard, Bulletin, Nitrous, and more. It takes time but then you aren't spending money out of pocket. I'll usually do these while watching TV or something.
A site run by Amazon where you can get paid for doing human intelligence tasks posted by various companies. I can make a dollar or two a day just in my spare time, or close to minimum wage if I put more effort into it. What you make goes into an Amazon Payments account, which you can spend on Amazon or have deposited in a bank account. It all adds up!
As far as I know Walmarts are well-known for allowing campers (and cars I assume) to stick around overnight. They obviously don't have showers and the noise/light won't be great for sleeping, but at least you won't have to worry about getting towed/ticketed. There is one not too far from the 110/105 in Torrence, but definitely verify:
Walmart 19503 Normandie Ave Torrance, CA 90501
Good luck saving up for the security deposit, I know how tough that can be. Also, if you have reliable internet consider doing something like https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome
It doesn't pay a lot, but if you did it every night it could be the difference between sleeping in your car for 4 weeks vs. 3 weeks to get your deposit together.
Gonna quote myself because whatevs
If you don't have a PANDA set up in Turkmaster, try this: Copy this link https://www.mturk.com/mturk/previewandaccept?groupId=3D00S7P7YGMS0X50UPV7TFTQ47DZEI&autoAcceptEnabled=true into a new bookmark Click it and keep clicking it, making sure you fill in any CAPTCHAs that come up, until you can't accept any more (25 I believe is the max.) Then go into your assigned HITs and do them. Should take around 2-3 minutes for each set of 25.
Advice would be to not exclusively post a PANDA link.
Req: https://www.mturk.com/mturk/searchbar?selectedSearchType=hitgroups&requesterId=A1PYK4UFVXDB1P
just email them, a similar thing happened last week with a bunch of people getting reject from one 'Survey research'. They did eventually reverse the block. Please do send the requester a message, i did. Here is the link to do so.
There are many requesters that put out lower paying batches that merely require one or two clicks per hit. Script those clicks to one button press and you can finish them in 1-2 seconds each. Some good starter batch requesters are Venue Quality, Ben Mones, and MyLikes. You'll have to run a panda on them because they trickle in throughout the day. Stay away from p9r and Jon Brelig, that's lowly peasant shit.
There is also a HUGE batch of A9's up right now: https://www.mturk.com/mturk/preview?groupId=3IR329NZ8Z25GMUY14XW4ZWN42A2KA
Combined with this script: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/11700-mturk-a9-category-validation-windows
EZ numbers.
Your entire argument is predicated on the assumption that mturk-tracker is reliable and accurate. It's not.
Take a look at the HITs GeoHIVE Administrator has up right now, specifically the validation batch. It's close to 4000. Now look at the stats from mturk-tracker. It reports only 197.
Ok, I'll break it down for ya.
The link to a HIT looks like this:
https://www.mturk.com/mturk/preview?groupId=LONGGROUPIDNUMBER
If you are at that preview page, and you click the accept button it sends you to a link that looks like this:
https://www.mturk.com/mturk/accept?groupId=LONGGROUPIDNUMBER
Ok so if you check the box that says, "Automatically accept the next HIT" when you submit, it brings you to a link that looks like this:
https://www.mturk.com/mturk/previewandaccept?groupId=LONGGROUPIDNUMBER
The "previewandaccept" page will accept another HIT every time that you refresh that page. So what you can do is use a browser extension like RefreshEvery to refresh that page every X seconds, and it will accept that HIT every X seconds and fill up your queue. Or you can keep that page refreshing if you are trying to catch a HIT that you think is about to be posted, like a really dank survey or zings or something.
Also note, if you know any of the links to the HIT, or even just the group ID#, you can make it into a PandA link by just changing it to previewandaccept yourself.
Try this one weird tip to increase your earnings 300%. Requesters hate it!
We need to make a sticky or something for this subreddit that tells people not to do the MELI hits. I know I got screwed a few weeks ago by them.
As for raising your approval percentage, did you do the current OCMP qual hits? They let you do 20 hits but they all approve, regardless of accuracy.
https://www.mturk.com/mturk/preview?groupId=30WP6KFJAK7BVBE0PMNI6YKFWD75V1
Here's another:
US - Answer a Short Survey - Alia Martin - $0.25/2min - >98%
No TO on this one.
https://www.mturk.com/mturk/searchbar?selectedSearchType=hitgroups&requesterId=A25W44HQOO1WUR
> No one is looking at the photos; I'm sure it uses a highly advanced picture-search algorithm for identifying the type of food.
Nope. They use Amazon's Mechanical Turk.
I can average bewteen $6 and $8 an hour on Mturk - it's just a matter of being able to do them quickly enough.
Tips
Never do jobs that have more than 1 page
It's possible to earn a lot of money per hour on the jobs that pay 1-3 cents each but only ask you to answer a single question. (There's one that pays 3 cents per job answering what a online ad is adversting that I can earn a lot of money doing - they're very very popular so go quickly :( )
Never do a job that requires a lot of work, no matter how much it pays as they never seem to be worth the time or effort needed to do them
Don't pick ones that need you to do much typing, ie don't do anything that requires you to fill in lots of different sections
it's possible to meriose places like Dolores Labs "test questions" where they already "know" the answers for and then you can go faster through the rest of the questions in that job without worrying about being marked incorrect.
I grind these out, although the new formatting and required writing portions are a drag. Better than nothing I suppose.
fyi you need to post in the text another link if posting a pandA, you can have a pandA link but also must include link to survey. thank you.
req link-https://www.mturk.com/mturk/searchbar?selectedSearchType=hitgroups&requesterId=A2IGC23690DHO0
Once you complete a hit he can just ask and Amazon will hand him your full name, address and SSN.
" we may disclose to Requesters your name, address, data on HITs you have completed, and Provider Tax Information. "Provider Tax Information" means tax identification information of Providers, such as a Social Security Number or Employer Identification Number. You hereby consent to our use and disclosure of Provider Tax Information and other data as described in this Section 6 and our Privacy Notice. " https://www.mturk.com/mturk/conditionsofuse
I don't enjoy being that guy but:
What is the proper HIT link format?
Please post all post titles like this:
US or ICA(international countries available) - HIT title or description - Requester Name - Pay/Approximate time - (Other Qualifications: >95%, >500 Approved etc.)
An example would be:
US - Do a survey! - Jim Bob - $0.35/2min - (>500, 97%) If you want to add additional info, like Requester reputation on TO (turkopticon), if you've already received payment, bonuses received, or qualifications required, please put it in the self post comment area. The actual link should also be in this section. Links should be either the URL of the search results:
or the URL of the HIT preview page:
https://www.mturk.com/mturk/preview?groupId=3NXBKB5598ZAA2HJNTRETPWJ5U79LJ
or both!
BIG EDIT DONT DO BRELIG
both of these trickle in, but are easy as shit:
my likes - is this image appropriate
https://www.mturk.com/mturk/previewandaccept?groupId=3QNYYBA9MLMQMAHKV4KPBYYNEPDBWZ
venue quality - are these two locations the same
https://www.mturk.com/mturk/previewandaccept?groupId=3EM4DVSA8U8J6KF08Q5EM8I2NYE308
If I could travel with my bf and take online classes that would be my dream life. Taking online classes is a great idea. If you have something you might be interested in I would start exploring what's available online. Or, just take some general classes if you're not sure what you're interested in. But if you want to do something right away there is Amazon Mechanical Turk. https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome It's brainless and you make shit for money, but it might get the ball rolling. Also, there are always expat communities were you could maybe hookup with people in similar situations. Good luck! It sounds like you're in a great position to do some exploring. How exciting!
Those quals are rare because you're not able to apply them through web interface as a requester, but they are available when using the command line. Unexpand this hit detail and it it will show you the quals that are hidden along with your scores
https://www.mturk.com/mturk/searchbar?selectedSearchType=hitgroups&requesterId=A71D8H1ZH0FNW
You do get stubs, and most of these places have you as an independent contractor, so it's a ~~I-9~~ 1099 rather than a W-2.
TextBroker is one such. The payment methods at the bottom are how clients pay for services; doesn't apply to the authors.
Clickworker is another one.
MTurk is run by Amazon, so they go through Amazon Payments rather than PayPal, but the concept is the same.
EDIT: Too many 9s running around.
For some reason your HIT link wasn't working for me. Here's the search terms result link if anyone else has the same issue: https://www.mturk.com/mturk/searchbar?selectedSearchType=hitgroups&searchWords=sergey+country&minReward=0.00&x=0&y=0
I think these are the HITs in question, requester David Chai: https://www.mturk.com/mturk/searchbar?selectedSearchType=hitgroups&requesterId=A1WTEUVJPCM8ZB
They're a TOS violation and also underpaid IMO.
Access to more HITs will come with each major milestone of approved HITs you reach (1000, 5000, etc.). Aside from that, this page provides some good advice about acquiring quals (scroll 1/3 of the way down the page). A definite must have is the adult content qual: >if you are okay with adult content, then you can and should obtain the site-wide Adult Content Qualification right now by going here and requesting the qualification from the third listing from the top (the one with over 200,000 qualified users). The standard qual value is 1.
got to do the quals test. demographics and the other which is auto given
sorry for the link hijack but you should have linked to the requester so they can see the quals
12:00 MC's
> we could find something he could do at home in his free time
Has he looked into piecework? For example, some mystery shopping can be done from home via phone; those doesn't pay a lot ($5-10 per shop) but it's easy and flexible. In-person shops, perhaps on the weekends, can pay $25-45 for 30 minutes of your time and some writing afterward (which you do at home). Intellishop is one company that runs these. I've been using them basically to get free oil changes the last few years; every time I go in to the dealer I mystery shop them and get paid $50, which covers the cost plus a bit.
There's also things like Mturk which can be done piecemeal in one's spare time. Between a few such things I'd bet he could earn $50-100 per week while the baby is sleeping without much effort.
Quickest thing I can come up with is Amazon's Mechanical Turk -- but the amount of money you make vs. the amount of work required may not really be what you're looking for.
In any case, check it out: https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome
Also, good on you for looking for a way to buy something instead of looking for a way to pirate it. <3
Actually it's perfectly legal as you are not in any way shape or form hired to do a job. There is not anywhere on their site where they hire you to do a job and there is not legal contract for which they state you are working for hire.
Also you are not paid by Amazon Mechanical Turk, you are paid by those creating the surveys for completing their tasks so they are the ones who set the minimum. MTurk just provides a platform in which you can connect to these individuals.
To be honest you sound like someone who got ripped off by a couple of bad requestors and are now trying to take it out on MTurk. I suggest you take some time to read some of the FAQ here and take a look at /r/HITsWorthTurkingFor to make sure you do not waste your time.
Also just to point out you are asking people who use this site to make some side money and in some cases a lively hood to shut it down. Now don't you think we kind of like that its up?
Edit: https://www.mturk.com/mturk/conditionsofuse <- in case you dispute that your hired please feel free to check the terms and conditions of use and please point out the part where you are hired.
CrowdSource is your friend. They approve HITs usually within 5-30mins.
https://www.mturk.com/mturk/preview?groupId=2J2GSCWY2AOO88LIKEFOKQSISDI111
That is a 5 cent HIT which takes about 20 secs. Type in a keyword into google and tell them the page number and result number of the url they're looking for.
She has a good rating so hopefully she comes through. Very easy.
Alright, guys. I swear to you this is the last time I post this, lest I become too much of a spammer. I posted it in yesterday's daily thread but I want to get some more responses from powerlifters. I've got a bunch of runners and people who just casually lift (they say that they don't compete), so it would be nice to get some responses from some serious lifters. Copy pasta from yesterday's daily thread follows.
After speaking with some people about their being addicted to pre-workout supplements, I decided to do some research on it. I can see how it could become a habit of sorts, as I personally love the rush of adrenaline I get from Mr. Hyde.
Anyway, I'm trying to determine correlations between some lifestyle variables, fitness routines, stress levels, gender and pre-workout usage and I thought I'd poll you guys.
It's not an official survey of any kind, but just borne of my own curiosity. Please be honest in your responses. If you've got an Amazon Turk account, I threw this up there (Link). It doesn't pay a lot but I wanted to get a bunch of responses. There are 20 questions, and it should take you 2 minutes.
You may be concerned that I ask your zip code. Don't be. I'm going to do a GIS analysis of the results, and I figured that the zip code is a fair compromise. I get a fairly decent resolution, while protecting your privacy at the same time.
The survey is only open to US residents who currently take. If you don't, the system won't let you complete it.
He seems to have released a fixed HIT here: https://www.mturk.com/mturk/preview?groupId=3HMDDQ197CKRDT63Q79YZWBYIZ73SM
It worked fine for me at least.
EDIT: Ah, no. This one is somewhat older. But since the first HIT is broken, it seems this is the one OP was referring to.
I have came across these HITs. I also came across something in another forum:
Dear Turker,
We are conducting a study on how Turkers communicate about HITs. If you would like to participate please read the information below and follow the URL at the bottom of this message to begin working on these HITs.
We have launched a group of HITs called "Rating Movie Posters". These HITs will be available for 72hrs or until our study completes, whichever is sooner (we will inform you by email if the study completes prior to 72hrs). Each HIT in this group involves answering a quick question about a movie poster and pays $0.15. Each HIT will take no more than 20 seconds to complete.
We have automatically granted you the ability to complete up to 50 of these HITs. Completing all 50 HITs will result in guaranteed pay of $7.50 and should take no longer than 10 minutes.
You can access these HITs at the following URL: https://www.mturk.com/mturk/preview?groupId=37WX97CR5VRBPVWQL7RAXJZT9KBIKM
Thanks!
Sid
People should just stop looking for the codes at this point, even if they get one, probably won't get many to do.
I also came across someone posting an expired access code (Iba1Z). If you put that into the HIT, it says there are currently 3 codes available.
Additional qualifications not mentioned in title:
- Location is one of: US
- Exc: [12214534-19337] has not been granted
Req: https://www.mturk.com/mturk/searchbar?selectedSearchType=hitgroups&requesterId=A2XRNL2U7OGDHN
HIT: https://www.mturk.com/mturk/preview?groupId=31R9JPCYP6DVV1U4K7B32XTPDVIWR5
> I believe mturk is US-only now.
Looks like OP is in Ecuador based on other Reddit posts? If that's accurate, then MTurk wouldn't be an option, even if OP is a US citizen.
"Unfortunately, US citizens living outside the United States are not allowed to work on Mechanical Turk." https://www.mturk.com/mturk/help?helpPage=worker#intl_tax_us_citizen_live_abroad
> Is it the email part or the needing to make a new account that violates the ToS?
Both.
"You may not use Amazon Mechanical Turk for illegal or objectionable activities. Here are some examples of prohibited activities: collecting personal identifiable information"
"What are some specific examples of HITs that violate Amazon Mechanical Turk policies? HITs requiring disclosure of the Worker's identity or e-mail address, either directly or indirectly; HITs requiring registration at another website or group"
Can't take the qualification from preview mode.
Here is a hit that just came up:
https://www.mturk.com/mturk/preview?groupId=349I5E7LWDSLANILBS46DG4OZCU9J1
Requester: SRI International - Janus
HITs Available: 13805
With that many hits available in this group, you can do something like this to help get your numbers up.
500 approved hits is a good goal from where you are, to open up more hits to you.
Okay, I see you've already posted some (5 single-HIT groups at 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 cents each).
> 8/12/2015 16:46 PT
HIT: Call and find 1 price [<1 minute] - https://www.mturk.com/mturk/preview?groupId=3XLZDG4M727NN14C09GH6AWYSI3ZLZ
Requester: [edited] - https://www.mturk.com/mturk/searchbar?selectedSearchType=hitgroups&requesterId=A3C4DFSWXGWWBA
TO Ratings: Pay=- Fair=- Comm=- Speed=- - http://turkopticon.ucsd.edu/A3C4DFSWXGWWBA
Time Allotted: 5 minutes
Reward: $0.01
HITs Available: 1
Description: "Call and ask for the price of a pack of Marlboro Black cigarettes"
Keywords: "search, survey, study, price"
Qualifications: none
See, that's not a survey/study, or a search task, so please don't use those keywords just to try to lure in more workers. If you'd pay enough, workers who look for any HITs (not using any keywords at all) would gladly do your HITs, and those who don't want to do phone call HITs won't do them anyway just because they show up in their search results.
I'd say "telephone, phone, call, price, check, store" would cover it. (The title is okay, though that time expectation is probably unrealistic. Also, a time limit of more than 5 minutes would be preferable... )
With HITs like these where you have to request a qual to take the HIT, consider linking to the search results rather than the HIT preview, like this: https://www.mturk.com/mturk/searchbar?selectedSearchType=hitgroups&searchWords=leslie+mccall+social&minReward=0.00&x=0&y=0
I completely agree. The exact wording from MTurk's Terms of Service:
"You may not permit any other person to perform Services as Provider using your Amazon Account." https://www.mturk.com/mturk/conditionsofuse
Mechanical Turk is a website run by Amazon (a big tech company in the US, not sure about elsewhere). It's a marketplace for labor.
Companies post small jobs that are hard for a computer to do (type out text in an image, type out text from an audio recording), and each small job pays a few cents.
Users like yourself can come online and complete these tasks for pay.
Here's a good podcast about it: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2015/01/30/382657657/episode-600-the-people-inside-your-machine
Chik-Fil-A is your best bet, like /u/shadowflame46 said. My sister worked there when she was about that age (and now she's old enough to be your mom, for what it's worth).
Another thing to consider (especially since you don't have a car yet) is Amazon's mechanical turk. I've only played around with it, but my understanding is that it's a way to work from home: https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome
That type of HIT violates MTurk's Terms of Service.
https://www.mturk.com/mturk/conditionsofuse
https://www.mturk.com/mturk/help?helpPage=policies
It also looks like it's against YouTube's Terms of Service.
Se você fala inglês tem essa empresa da Amazon: https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome são coisinhas pequenas que demoram uns 30s, 1m e pagam igualmente pouco $0,10 ou algo assim.
Para um trabalho um pouco mais sério e que paga bem (deve estar pagando o salário mínimo da Califórnia $9 USD/hora, mas eu não sei como está hoje) eu recomendo a Leapforce: https://www.leapforceathome.com/qrp/public/home você basicamente vai trabalhar terceirizado para um portal de buscas avaliando resultados de pesquisa e sites.
The 411Richmond 'Verify a Single Value' hits.
They pay quick, they have a 30 minute timer, and they show up all day long.
EDIT:
Here is the link that will accept that hit. You should bookmark it and refresh it frequently. You can get several hundred hits a day easily and over 1000 a day if you are turking all day long:
https://www.mturk.com/mturk/previewandaccept?groupId=389X50RO3UCP2CYKCYM14K9RJJI439
The HIT ID numbers in bonus emails are basically useless from our side. Search for the requester's name on the TO website, to get their requester ID number. Then plug it into this link to be able to contact them (replace 'REQUESTERIDHERE' with the ID): https://www.mturk.com/mturk/contact?subject=Regarding+Amazon+Mechanical+Turk+HIT&requesterId=REQUESTERIDHERE
You couldn't' just give us one link to the whole batch, instead of 6 individual adfly links?
I'm guessing https://www.mturk.com/mturk/searchbar?selectedSearchType=hitgroups&searchWords=will+this+movie&minReward=0.00&x=0&y=0 ?
Also, if you actually watch the entire trailer, it's a lot more than ten seconds.
You could look into mechanical Turk: https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome (sorry can't do a good link on mobile). I heard about it on NPR recently- basically people put up small tasks like doing surveys for psychology research and you get paid some small amount. It's for work that humans do easily but that is hard to automate for a computer. Each task pays very little but the woman they interviewed on NPR made ~$20/day on there. So for an $800 ring you could maybe do it in 50 days (adding 10 on assuming a stay at home dad would have less hours per day to do the website than the woman who was unemployed with no kids on NPR).
Your link takes me to a search page for "min". Next time, post the results of a search for the requester or to a direct link to the HIT.
Here's the HIT, for whoever wants it.
Dude. :(
Uhm. Try http://www.indeed.com for job search? It worked better for me than the other job search sites.
Also it doesn't usually give more than beer money but https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome
Do lots and lots of oscar smith HITs. Pay rate isn't great, but there's no minimum approval rate and he approves very quickly.
Crowdsource also approves very fast and their tasks tend to be simple, if a bit tedious.
- Get off the grid;
- Get self sufficient;
- Work when you need to, doing varied tasks;
- ???
- Profit;
- ???
- Screw profit, just live.
Zoltar is a google requestor that has 3 hits that are released in the morning (may be other times, but I only know about the morning ones). They generally start popping up between 6:45 and 7:15 Mountain Time and if you're quick enough, you can net a decent amount in a short time. I average 15 dollars for an hour or so. The best way to get zoltar's is to have pandas set and load up a full queue of em once they're released - gotta be quick though, and it can take a little bit to learn the hit well enough to go through them quick.
The hits are website evaluation, new car dealership website evaluation and car dealer website evaluation or something to that affect and pay .12, .06 and .20 cents - the website evaluation for .12 is what you'll see the most often but I love it when a huge batch of the .20 is released because they're even quicker to go through generally.
Here are the panda links:
https://www.mturk.com/mturk/previewandaccept?groupId=3BVKBPKP93I2R8PUITI99LBFA23IA8
https://www.mturk.com/mturk/previewandaccept?groupId=36DWM50OGJQWNGWUY157IKGIRLYKEQ
https://www.mturk.com/mturk/previewandaccept?groupId=3PBTVBPQ9UI5R0A3PW7WXNE8W4CLGC
Edit: Added panda links
What sort of skills do you have?
You might be able to do some work with Amazon Mechanical Turk. https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome
Some things require typing in validation codes or transcribing audio etc.
The simpler the task the less the pay. But you can probably churn through a whole lot.