Can anyone refresh my memory for the Amazon program that you get paid?

[huggiebear23]

I remember seeing someone talking about some amazon program where you search and get paid for doing it?

 

[bjscheel]

Are you thinking of mTurk where you do little jobs? It's hosted by Amazon. Just search mTurk and you'll find it. I've done a bit of it- mostly I transcribe receipts or take surveys.

 

[mblondie0509]

I use Bing rewards and search every day. I turn my rewards into Amazon Gift Cards.

 

[abitcloudy]

there's alos Swagbucks where you seach using their toolbar and can turn those points into amazon gift cards

 

[crazelion]

amazon mturk

 

[Marionnette]

I use Bing rewards and search every day. I turn my rewards into Amazon Gift Cards.

there's alos Swagbucks where you seach using their toolbar and can turn those points into amazon gift cards

I'm pretty sure that the OP is asking about mTurk. She's looking to get actual money, not a way to earn Amazon GCs.

 

[Dakota731]

amazon mturk

Anyone actually do this and make anything? I looked into it and it said for a ten minute assignment you get 1 cent??

 

[SWofDisorder]

Anyone actually do this and make anything? I looked into it and it said for a ten minute assignment you get 1 cent??

My time even if I am sitting on my butt is worth more than 1 cent for 10 minutes. Value yourself and your skilz.

 

[bjscheel]

Anyone actually do this and make anything? I looked into it and it said for a ten minute assignment you get 1 cent??

I started around Christmas and when I was doing a little every night, I would make $10-$15 a week. I have made $175 so far. Since track season started, I've done very little. I mostly do surveys and receipt entry. Some surveys are .50 for less than 10 minutes. The time estimated or the time allowed isn't necessarily how long it will take you. I can make $3-6/hour when I find decent stuff and really try. To find the surveys, I go to the last page of hits and work backwards. Entering grocery receipts is better pay than it looks, because besides the base pay shown, you get bonuses the longer they are. I only do the receipts that are very easy to read and don't have lots of annoying discounts on every other line.

For me it's just a little Christmas spending money (I'll leave it in Amazon and spend it there), done when I don't have anything better to do.

 

[pryncess527]

Anyone actually do this and make anything? I looked into it and it said for a ten minute assignment you get 1 cent??

Some assignments are better than others. For example, last week I did 200 assignments that took me, literally 8 seconds each and made 6 cents on each one, for about $7 in 20 minutes. I was doing it during downtime on my job so really had nothing better to do (The DIS was slow ;p)

The more jobs you have completed, the better assignments you become eligible for. I'm never going to make enough on mTurk to make a huge impact, but I can easily make $10 or 20 a week with very little effort.

Plus, some of them are fun! There are often jobs related to academic research, I always enjoy participating in those and knowing that I'm helping a grad student collect data.

 

[DisneyEater]

I use Bing rewards and search every day. I turn my rewards into Amazon Gift Cards.

Redeem you bing rewards for swagbucks (475br = 500sb) and then you can cash out 450 swagbucks for a $5 Amazon gift card.

I'm pretty sure that the OP is asking about mTurk. She's looking to get actual money, not a way to earn Amazon GCs.

You can cash out swagbucks or bing rewards (through swagbucks) into paypal.

 

[MandiC]

I just signed up for mturk. I do swagbucks but there is nothing more frustrating than answering questions for a survey for 15 minutes and then being told you don't qualify for the survey! So I figure I'll do the minimum on swagbucks (a few searches, daily poll, sign into the toolbar) and then mturk. At least I am guaranteed that 1 cent for the survey I am really just doing both to supplement our Christmas money anyways.