Amazon.com Mechanical Turk - easy extra cash

kavakava

Amazon.com has a new programme that wants you to "Complete simple tasks that people do better than computers. And, get paid for it."

Example: "Is there a pizza parlour in this photograph?".

For each task you complete you get a small payment, usually ranging from a few cents to a little under a dollar. It's named the Amazon Mechanical Turk after a famous hoax from the 19th century. Kill time and get paid in tiny increments to boot!

Genuine, tested and works. USA, UK, worldwide. This might be the next big thing. You will NOT get rich on this, but the tasks are easy and there are plenty of them at the moment. As seen on Slashdot.

http://mturk.amazon.com/

drstonk

The suspicious part of me suspects that this may be a scam to datamine amazon id's passwords which it asks for when you accept a task. I am willing to be proved wrong and would use the service but ...........

martinmarv

It's also linked from a site on Amazon's main https://www.amazon.com URL

http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html/102-5344993-9372938?node=3435361&

fairylights_2

I'm sorely tempted, but am very nervous in case my card details go to someone else ... hmmm. Anyone actually done this yet?

BoltonMinx

Looks kosher, am at work at the moment, so can't really explore this, interesting concept though

Poppycat

The ip address is this
207.171.166.22
mturk.amazon.com
Host unreachable

207.171.160.0 - 207.171.191.255

Amazon.com, Inc.
605 5th Ave S
SEATTLE
WA
98104
United States

Role Account
+1-206-266-2187
noc@amazon.com

NS-1.AMAZON.COM
NS-2.AMAZON.COM
NS-3.AMAZON.COM
AUTH00.NS.UU.NET

AMAZON-01
Created: 1999-09-23
Updated: 2002-03-19
Source: whois.arin.net

identitymismatch

It'll take a while to get any real money here. Most tasks are $0.03, the ones that are more ($.040 and $0.65) require much more thought. I completed 11 image picking ones (at $0.03 each) in a few minutes.

I'll admit I haven't looked at the T&C of this, but I have a minor worry it might be US only. A *minor* worry as I have no real intention of going for this.

Still, if you're bored I guess it's something to do. A little more fun than using Kelkoo to get rpoints, but not much.

kavakava

As my post says, it it's available WORLDWIDE, and you will NOT get rich on this.
You are welcome!

marka87uk

How do they pay you?

kavakava

Amazon gift certificates (worldwide) or cheque (US). There is a FAQ on the website explaining this, and many more questions:

http://www.mturk.com/mturk/help?helpPage=main

bdpm2003

you can create a new account even if your an existing user they give you that option

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aws/ssop/index.html/103-3521228-0973407?is-secure=true&&awscbctx=&awscbid=urn%3Aaws%3Asid%3A027Y0TCSPRG5XHFYJSR2&awscredential=&awsstrict=false&wa=wsignin1.0&wctx=&wreply=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mturk.com%3A80%2Fmturk%2Fendsignin&wtrealm=urn%3Aaws%3Asid%3A027Y0TCSPRG5XHFYJSR2&awssig=laOjINzT0bhaOpepj%2B8XaUpHInI%3D

so i might give it a go and open a new account to do it with