Less Good Paying Surveys on Mechanical Turk
@Allyouneedislove (35)
Alachua, Florida
June 15, 2019 2:05pm CST
I've noticed that there are significantly less good-paying jobs and surveys on Amazon Mechanical Turk than there have been in recent months. I am concerned that the people who use it for their research papers are getting cheap. I noticed a 35 minute survey that only paid 30 cents, and I got fed up. If I do one survey a day that's a lot these days.
Do any of you use Mechanical Turk? How do you get more surveys, or are you as fed up as I am?
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@lovebuglena (43085)
• Staten Island, New York
15 Jun 19
I've not done any surveys there. Pretty much my tasks there were to transcribe data from receipts or from forms. I've cashed out $1.48 or something like that from there and have not done anything since. I am glad that Amazon Payments lets you cash out such a low amount.
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@Allyouneedislove (35)
• Alachua, Florida
15 Jun 19
Wow, Lena. I made it through the initial 1000 tasks/surveys so that I could earn more, and it was a real uphill battle. I've been on there since 2013. Why did you stop?
@lovebuglena (43085)
• Staten Island, New York
15 Jun 19
@Allyouneedislove I got tired of transcribing receipts and such, which pays pennies, and could not seem to find something else to do there.
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@Allyouneedislove (35)
• Alachua, Florida
15 Jun 19
@lovebuglena Yes, I agree, it can be very hard to find anything besides those tasks. When I was qualifying I found tasks that were for watching videos and doing research, too. Did you use the search/filter tool to find only the penny paying jobs?
@florelway (23160)
• Cagayan De Oro, Philippines
16 Jun 19
I haven't used mechanical turk. Some surveys are actually annoying.
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@Allyouneedislove (35)
• Alachua, Florida
17 Jun 19
@florelway Yes, I've heard that it's harder to use MTurk in other countries, but I'd never heard about a quota. We have a new optional script on the top of our search window that offers you a goal to reach, but not a quota.
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@florelway (23160)
• Cagayan De Oro, Philippines
18 Jun 19
@Allyouneedislove it's actually quota of the survey sites. Once they reached number of respondents they will screen you out.
@florelway (23160)
• Cagayan De Oro, Philippines
17 Jun 19
@Allyouneedislove sometimes you answer about 10 questions then they tell you they had reached quota and you don't get any point. Am on rakuteninsights so far better.
@Hannihar (129553)
• Israel
17 Jun 19
@Allyouneedislove
I have never heard of it but thanks for the heads up about the place and that it is not worth checking out.
@Scrapper88 (5957)
• United States
15 Jun 19
I was thinking about getting on that site, but I never got around to it.
