Oscar Smith

Discussion in 'Oscar Smith' started by MackW, Jan 30, 2012.

  1. riazthemturkhelper

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    Thanks Khalinov... I won't do much confused card works, but will try to do some non-US ones without much doubts.
    +1 809 29x xxxx these type of numbers can be put using the non-US option.
     
  2. SingingThroughTheStorm

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    I want to know what the point of his HITs are though.
    What is the reason for needing these cards taken down?

    Not trying to be rude.
     
  3. sirotis2004

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    OK I submitted a question regarding the non-US addresses directly to the requester. He is usually good about responding to inquiries so we will see that he says. I tried to do do some HITs for him today but got about 5 non-US addresses in a row so I just moved on.
     
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    "For foreign address, please write " international " before starting to type the address. If there are multiples lines for the address given on the card, please click " add line " to input the details.

    If you are able to identify the city state and zip code of a foreign address, please enter them in the respective fields only."
     
  5. pradheep.stunner

    pradheep.stunner New Member

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    Nowadays i am getting "your account has been flagged for suspicious activity" in the image part of oscar smith's hits. Can anyone help me to get away from this problem and work on hits again. And if anyone finds the solution mail it to "pradheep.stunner@gmail.com"
     
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  6. riazthemturkhelper

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    I sent a mail to you. Please check and do the needful. Hope that will help you.
     
  7. swiftkick

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    For smartphone app where users take pictures of the cards and mturk workers input the details. Oscar Smith made millions of dollars off of this, and pays workers $0.02 each. Everybody should not do Oscar Smith cards, he is a rip-off artist and will never fix the pay until people stop doing the hits.

    Here is the site

    http://www.cardmunch.com/
     
  8. SingingThroughTheStorm

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    I see. Even if I didn't know or think he was a millionaire, I wouldn't approve of his pay.
    Say it takes 1 minute (actually takes more like two minutes for me) each HIT, you are only getting paid $1.20 an hour. Say you become a trusted worker and get paid 5 cents a hit: $.05 x 60 jobs/minutes = $3.00 an hour.

    Now I consider $3 an hour decent, but I don't think anyone can load and do one of his HITs at the rate of 1 a minute. Tagasauris Multiple Choices about images pays 4 cents for short jobs, and their pay almost rivals a trusted worker of Oscar Smith.

    Word of Mouth pays $.05 for their jobs which take about the same length of Oscar Smith HITs, but after 15 HITs you get a 5 cent bonus per hit, and even higher if you rank in a certain tier of quality.
     
  9. riazthemturkhelper

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    Tagasauris Multiple Choices, offo that is only for US Workers... :(
     
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    Sometimes when I'm bored I'll do 5 or 6 Oscar hits.... I've never been pegged for this suspicious activity stuff. I wonder what you guys are doing to cause this. Although I don't encourage people to do Oscar hits I'll say that he's never rejected a single one that I've submitted..... and I've done a LOT.

    His HITs are a novelty thing imho, the pay is so poor there really isn't any reason to do them unless your family is starving and the mafia is after you for gambling debts

    If Oscar went out of business today, I wouldn't shed a tear.... and in fact, I kind of hope his business fails. The guy is a 1st class Turd... he can go straight to hell as far as I'm concerned.
     
  12. PhobicTurk

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    I totally agree. I think he's an exploitative little toadie, taking advantage of people with his ridiculous low pay. I have no problem with someone who is making a profit, but the difference between what he's making on those cards and what he's paying the people to do the work is offensive to me.

    They're OK HITs for someone who is brand spanking new to MTurk and needs to get a feel for things without having to worry about a rejection starting them off on the wrong foot, but other than that I consider him worthless.

    And even the way his HITs are designed, to almost purposely keep people from hitting that Trusted qualification by not putting correct instructions in his HITs. I just took a peek at one after reading what sirotis2004 wrote about International addresses, and no where in the instructions does he mention that.
     
  13. kayk111

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    He only does what he can get away with.
     
  14. sasi24365

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    yes friend i am also getting that problem,
    can you please tell which hit is easy, and high payable please.

    sasi
     
  15. riazthemturkhelper

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    I agree..he should pay atleast 5 cents ..2 cents is way too low for the amount of effort and work we put in.
     
  17. Amater

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    I don't understand this. Should we enter "international" and real adress on the same line or on separated lines? "International" on first adress line and real adress on "add line", or these both go on the same line (e.g. international 648, Mandawali Fazalpur )?

    What do you do when person has more than one title, or he/she works for a department of a company. Should I write down the name of the department too?

    What if there is only a logo of the company (let say AB Motors),and beside name there stands "motor car company". Should I write down " AB Motors, Motors car company" or just "AB Motors"?
     
  18. riazthemturkhelper

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    I never heard that to put the word "International".
    For the case of AB motors... put company name as "AB Motors"
     
  19. BMW-M3

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    I consider Oscar Smith hits to be brothel visits. I go do the hits only when I need to gather some numbers and up the approval.
     
  20. sunnymarie

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    Hello friends: I have a question about Oscar Smith. I have done many hits for him and now I'm getting this

    The HIT you were viewing could not be accepted.

    There are no more available HITs in this group. See more HITs available to you below.

    So after a while he does not let you do anymore hits. Someone I know couldn't do his hits either. Do any of you know what is going on? Thank you so much. sunnymarie
     

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