Mturk location scam

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  1. acustic

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    I like mturk, it's legit internet work and one can make some nice money on there.. but...
    They only give the actual money to exclusive countries, as far as I know, US and India.. I consider that a scam.. and, well, I find it only fair to look for alternative ways to actually obtain my earned money, I worked for it just like the Indians and Americans did, why am I considered dirt while they are treated as humans? And it gets funnier, I can't even purchase any of the things I want from amazon.com; I could though purchase items from amazon.co.uk but guess what, come on, guess, oh, you'll find this funny, one can't transfer his money to amazon.co.uk.. nope, ohoh, that would mean Europeans like me could buy stuff, that would be crazy!

    Right.. got off track there for a bit, what I'm actually looking to discuss is alternate ways to put my hands on the money I've earned.
     
  2. BMW-M3

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    And to rub it in, you pay customs at your country after buying from amazon US.

    I so every hate this convert to rupee and receive a check. They should come up with alternatives.

    Amazon has a tie up with some local dealers here in India, but then half the stuff available on amazon US site is not listed here. Utterly useless.
     
  3. fly

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    Welcome to my world acustic... :D
    btw. clickworker.com is European mturk alternative.. They pay directly to your European bank account. ;)
     
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  4. acustic

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    Oh, thanks for that, I'll definitely try it out.
     
  5. fly

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    no prob. ..just got 3EUR, yay for me, lol... :D
     
  6. acustic

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    7 more and you can cash out :p
     
  7. fly

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    ..nah I setup paypal as payment option, so no-minimum for me :p
     
  8. acustic

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    Um, they seem to want some sort of tax number thing, any idea what that is?
     
  9. fly

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    Just select NO radio button..
     
  10. acustic

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    Ah, cool, will try that. You should have given me your referral link to register with, but it's too late now ^_^
     
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    ps. sometimes valid work will be rejected and your base/project score will drop.. One rejection and you lose 3-5%, 10 completed and you get like 2% up.. retarded system...

    http://i.imgur.com/CiJF1.jpg
     
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    oh.. you got rejections from there.. ok seeing all that what now your opinion ...Mturk vs Clickworker.. which is better one?
     
  13. fly

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    @riazam2006
    Honestly mturk!!! CW is okish. They pay good for "jobs" comparing to mturk, but most "jobs" are so boring. The positive side is that I can withdraw money :)
     
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    Thanks fly for the feedback.. why so boring...?
     
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    ..I meant to say that I don't like doing them. On mturk I can always find something that I like doing. :)
     
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    the one I have done for 3 years now is Opinion Outpost. I stopped working for them because although they do pay. You have to take qualification surveys to get surveys to work on. You answer a bunch of questions and then they say you dont qualify

    The truth is. They are getting paid for you to take the qualification questions which are the actual survey
     
  17. Nazel

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    You know I think Mturk is just not even trying to give us new alternatives since we're just sitting back and taking it, if we would all complain & demand at the very least gift cards that are transferable to other amazon websites, maybe they'll do something about it, I've sent them a couple of emails but I don't think they'll do anything about it if it's just me ..
     
  18. acustic

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    there's been a lot of mails sent from my side, that's for sure
     
  19. Nazel

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    Well let's not stop, let's annoy the **** out of them lol
     
  20. acustic

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    That'll probably get us banned or something :p
     

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