I'm relativity new to turking. Ive been at it for about 10 days now, but I notice a few of my hits are still pending since day one. So I was wondering. Is there anything I can do about these. Like is there some way I can get in contact with the requester and find out if they can be approved or not?
Requesters have up to 30 days to approve your hits. There is a good script (Script Monkey needs to be installed, then go over to the scripts section of this forum to find the approval time script) to tell you what the requester's approval setting is. Hits automatically approve at 30 days, so no, you really needn't do anything in the meantime, except to install the script so that you know what the waiting period will be.
Your hits say Pending Approval or Approved - Pending Payment? If you are within your first 10 days they will remain Approved - Pending Payment until your tenth day. They will eventually turn to Paid, so long as you have submitted a hit every day for those 10 days. If it says Pending Approval, there may not be much you can do. Some Requester's just take their time. You can look at this thread and install the Auto Approval script, which will tell you the Auto Approval time for HITs. http://mturkforum.com/showthread.php?4501-All-The-Scripts-You-Need-to-Get-Started!
They say Approved - Pending Payment. I checked and today is my official 10th day. I started back on October 10th and 11th. But something went wrong with my SSN and I had to wait until November 6th to start again. Right now I'm at $9 in my account settings, but my total earrings is $57.01. So that's why I'm kinda worried. I guess all I have too do now then is wait till they all start getting paid?
Don't worry, they will start to clear soon. Requester's must pay for the HIT's before you perform them.
You have 57.01 in total earnings, but $9.00 in your Amazon Payments account. This is because when the transfer of your total earnings transfers from your mturk account to your amazon payments account it is a slow process. It will slowly trickle in. To answer your original answer. They all said Approved - Pending payment because you were still in your "beginner 10 day period". They had been approved, but you can't be paid into your Amazon Payments account until after your 10th day. Which you just had, which is why your money is starting to trickle in at 9.00 right now. Hope this helps you. Hope I answered everything.