Amazon.com Mechanical Turk - easy extra cash

RACHIE77

Teerah wrote:

You are only credited for the ones they agree are correct AFAIK

I have just seen that lots of my HITS have been rejected...

HITs You have Submitted Value Rate

HITs Submitted 76 —
... Approved 47 62.7%
... Rejected 28 37.3%
... Pending 1 —

This is strange cos I was sure that a much higher percentage than that were correct as I have looked most of them up! Some of the street photo ones were way off the mark so I click on 'none of these' so maybe that includes these as rejects but its not fair cos i took time to look at them??

Teerah

Yep, thats why I said the ones they AGREE are correct, not the ones that are correct! Not sure that the rest are wrong but that seems to be the way it gos, think they are quite strict on capitalisation and other grammar also so perhaps this has something to do with it

RACHIE77

Ah i see, still, if they know they are correct or not correct then why are they even asking us??

I have been careful with grammar and capitalisation etc too and mostly I have copied and pasted the spelling and capitalisation from an offical site I've googled if I'm unsure... I would love to see which exact ones aren't correct and I'm still pretty puzzled how they know, is someone checking each and every one? Or does a machine check it against a database? In which case, why ask the question in the first place?? odd!!

Thanks Teerah

Teerah

RACHIE77 wrote:

Ah i see, still, if they know they are correct or not correct then why are they even asking us??

I have been careful with grammar and capitalisation etc too and mostly I have copied and pasted the spelling and capitalisation from an offical site I've googled if I'm unsure... I would love to see which exact ones aren't correct and I'm still pretty puzzled how they know, is someone checking each and every one? Or does a machine check it against a database? In which case, why ask the question in the first place?? odd!!

Thanks Teerah

No problem

Regarding the whys and wherefores though, I am as puzzled as you!

RACHIE77

LOL - I just did a street photo pic and I think that they may have photo'd a fight in the process - ha ha!!

(bottom right)

RACHIE77

I have sent a message via the feedback form asking them if they can explain their criteria for rejections...

krishna

Justicia wrote:

There was a thread on another forum that I frequent that had this link and about 20-25 pages of posts about it (including some very amusing captures from these photo's)...!!

But if I recall, it is indeed only available to obtain credits towards the American Amazon.com site and only transferable to US bank accounts... Not sure if you can order from the .com site, but even if so I would imagine the shipping charges to be quite exciting...

Sorry...:(

Not sure I can be bothered to do this, but I have bought things from Amazon.com. Sometimes you can get them cheaper even with the higher shipping charges, than buying them from amazon.co.uk. This is particularly the case with market place sellers. Also some books not available on amazon.co.uk, but they are on amazon.com

System

Just trying this it is really strange! Doing the music one but seems like it could take ages to earn something at 2 cents a go!

pel.s

got 2 sets of 2 dvds, so made about $66 so 4 dvds delivered
turk now seems defunked... but hey i got 4 dvds outov it

RACHIE77

pel.s wrote:

turk now seems defunked...

what do you mean?