What happened to the tasks?

Canada
February 10, 2010 8:48am CST
I have been away for a few weeks or so working on another site to earn some money and failed to use myLot for a while because of this. I find there are not tasks available the last few times I check in. Have they changed the rules so no tasks are being posted, did I miss something? Why no tasks anymore, have they moved elsewhere to another site?
4 responses
• India
10 Feb 10
Its just a process of cleaning.due to so many refferal tasks being published which is against the rules of mylot....mylot has decided to clean it and start from scratch.Sure it will be back one day..no one knows when ...but dont worry it will be back
• Canada
10 Feb 10
Maybe they should have a separate section for the referrals. I am sure they could make money for myLot site as I am sure there is a segment of the online community willing to pay people to sign up, obviously there are because of so many doing it here, and I am sure there are those willing to sign up for a small fee. Rather than ban the referrals, a separate section would benefit everyone. The referral type of tasks were swamping the other type of writing, etc, type tasks so something had to be done, I do not think an outright ban is the best course.
• Canada
10 Feb 10
I gave you a + rating by the way. Your star is a little anemic.
• India
10 Feb 10
Yeah I guess there should be different section.the task that I created was rejected because it was of refferal catregory.I was sad but rule are rule and they must be followed.Iam happy mylot refunded my funds when I made a request and thanks for the rating
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@dolphin2406 (1224)
• Poland
10 Feb 10
Hi, this was exactly my question a few minutes ago as I've been away for some time due to my study. It's a pity there are no more tasks, I guess the writing tasks were according to the rules though. Anyway I've seen your comment on Mturk, I sometimes do tasks there and am not from USA however I cannot withdraw money as they only deposit in US accounts or send cheques to India. Instead I use the money earned to buy from Amazon.com.
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• Canada
10 Feb 10
I have a US bank account so I do not know if they would deposit it there. Amazon.com does not ship a lot of their products to Canada and their shipping charges are outrageous. I would rather get the cash and buy here in Canada, it sometime is way cheaper as a lot of Canadian retailers ship for free or way cheaper than from USA. UPS also charges a fee for bringing packages across the border which is a rip off. Shipping from New York to where I live is closer than New York to California, yet they charge many times more shipping.
• Canada
10 Feb 10
Actually no. You have to provide an American driver's license too, issued by one of the States which I do not have. My driver's license is Canadian provincial and I have plenty of identification but I hear that is not enough.
• Poland
10 Feb 10
yes I agree that shipping is expensive, well for here (Malta) it is more than for Canada I guess. So if you have a US account you can withdraw the money in that account.
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• Philippines
10 Feb 10
I was wondering the same thing. The last time I saw available tasks was when I joined myLot. I hope some tasks appear again though.
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• Canada
10 Feb 10
When tasks were first introduced last year I made some money doing a lot of them. I think I maxed out at about an 80$ payout for one month. I had to stop because it worked out you were being paid about 25 cents an hour by the time you did all the work, mostly writing. They started changing the criteria and I got bored so stopped. The tasks are not for everyone as it is slave wages and some people do not have the skills required for certain tasks. I was however and interesting experience. There are other sites like Amazon Turk where you can do tasks. I did that for a while but they do not pay you cash if you do not live in USA or in India.
@phoenix8606 (4942)
10 Feb 10
WEll, I wonder about the same thing too. Maybe there has gone because of the coming change on mylot, and they have remove them temporarily so that they can make some changes in the task sector. i also want to see some, because since I have joined the site, a week ago, I have saw only one tasks, and it wasn't that worth
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• Canada
10 Feb 10
I hope they have the tasks there in the new format. It would be nice to have a separate section for referrals too, obviously there is a market for them. Maybe I should start up a task site for referrals, unfortunately it would soon be overwhelmed by cheaters I suppose.