03/22 - Oopsie Saturday

Sadly just canceled QBC. Time for me to accept that this site is not improving. Hard to spend $20 on QBC to catch pick fu all day. The final wake up call for me was a great requester with a $20 hit from a university telling me she had issues paying us because Amazon would not verify her account and she was moving to another platform. Waving goodbye

 

Happy Caturday

 

bbitterly@ust.hk [A3GPQEUS43MEDG] 6-7 minute survey for $1.00(~ 6 minutes) - $1.00 | PANDA

Unrated

Unrated

Unrated

$17.31 / hour
00:03:28 / completion time

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Pros:
Instant approval

Cons:
Lottery bonus only
Brief writing (chat with a bot)

Catchability: Great (HIT Last Seen: 7 seconds ago)
Qualifications: Exc: [-250920373-457847] DoesNotExist ; Total approved HITs >= 1000; islfvr8491 >= 100; HIT approval rate (%) >= 99; Location In US;

To read bbitterly@ust.hk's full profile check out TurkerView!​

 

bbitterly@ust.hk [A3GPQEUS43MEDG] 6-7 minute survey for $1.00(~ 6 minutes) - $1.00 | PANDA

Unrated

<24 hours

Unrated

$10.81 / hour
00:05:33 / completion time

Approved! ​

Pros:
Instant approval.

Cons:
Chat with a chat-bot for at least 1 minute.

Catchability: Great (HIT Last Seen: a second ago)
Qualifications: Exc: [-250920373-457847] DoesNotExist ; Total approved HITs >= 1000; islfvr8491 >= 100; HIT approval rate (%) >= 99; Location In US;

To read bbitterly@ust.hk's full profile check out TurkerView!​

 

If you know the researcher's name or details of the study (having the consent form would be best) and contact that University's IRB, you could probably get compensated for that. Especially, if you have messages/ emails with the researcher acknowledging that the blame is with her or the issue is on her end. Doesn't hurt to try.

In fact, even mentioning contacting an IRB to an academic researcher with a legit University has gotten unfair rejections reversed for me in the past. This actually happened to me last month on a $4 or $5 hit from a new researcher that set up her screener at the end of the study on accident and was trying to get out of paying, even though I did the full study. I would think something like that would be more likely with your situation, and the researcher just doesn't want to waste part of their budget on unusable data, even if it's their fault.

I didn't think it was possible for requesters to post hits, unless their account was verified and funded already to pay out, but I could be totally wrong on that part.

 

bbitterly@ust.hk [A3GPQEUS43MEDG] 6-7 minute survey for $1.00(~ 6 minutes) - $1.00 | PANDA

Good

<24 hours

Unrated

$15.00 / hour
00:04:00 / completion time

Approved! ​

Pros:
ymmv. 99% & approved instantly. possible bonus, but unlikely, as it's lottery based.

Cons:
ymmv. 1 minute of writing. comprehension check.

Catchability: Great (HIT Last Seen: a second ago)
Qualifications: Exc: [-250920373-457847] DoesNotExist ; Total approved HITs >= 1000; islfvr8491 >= 100; HIT approval rate (%) >= 99; Location In US;

To read bbitterly@ust.hk's full profile check out TurkerView!​

 

Yoon [A6TQOYGLTF8JB] A survey for those who follow influencers on social media - $2.75 | PANDA

Good

Unrated

Unrated

$18.50 / hour
00:08:55 / completion time

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Pros:
ymmv. 99% approval.

Cons:
ymmv. brief writing.

Catchability: Great (HIT Last Seen: a second ago)
Qualifications: Total approved HITs > 100; Masters Exists ; HIT approval rate (%) > 98; Location EqualTo US;

To read Yoon's full profile check out TurkerView!​

 

bbitterly@ust.hk [A3GPQEUS43MEDG] 6-7 minute survey for $1.00(~ 6 minutes) - $1.00 | PANDA

Unrated

Unrated

Unrated

$9.28 / hour
00:06:28 / completion time

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Pros:

Cons:

Catchability: Great (HIT Last Seen: a second ago)
Qualifications: Exc: [-250920373-457847] DoesNotExist ; Total approved HITs >= 1000; islfvr8491 >= 100; HIT approval rate (%) >= 99; Location In US;

To read bbitterly@ust.hk's full profile check out TurkerView!​

 

All is good, she paid me and followed up to make sure I was paid. It was just another example for me of how the good requesters have all left the party and are not coming back.

 

Here is her message me, I asked her why in the past her hits were paid out right away but I appeared to be waiting for day 30. I was hoping it would come sooner rather than later because it was a $20 hit which these days is a unicorn on mturk. She made sure I was paid a few days ago and told me she was headed to prolific. Amazon should treat requesters better. Things like this is why we have no requesters left on mturk.


Thank you so much for reaching out!

Unfortunately, my requester account was permanently closed by MTurk because they were unable to verify my identity. However, MTurk had reassured me that any workers that were waiting on payment would receive an auto payment 30 days after the date that they took their survey. I am dismayed to hear that this wasn't the case for you. I will attempt to reach out to MTurk customer service to see what the issue is.

I apologize for this significant inconvenience to you. Please keep my contact information just in case you don’t end up receiving your payment and I can follow up again with customer service to see what we can do.

 

Speaking of surefire HITs, what HITs are perfect for meeting that 100 HIT requirement?

Edit: I noticed that there are some HITs that require to register to some site. How do you avoid them?

 

Ben Peterson, PickFu