Amazon Mechanical Turk Review

So in my never ending search to find a way to make extra money online I stumbled across an Amazon service that I had found a few years ago, but rediscovered recently Amazon Mechanical Turk.  This is a website where you can create an account, verify Tax information and Bank info, and start making pennies on the dollar in hours, lol. 

Here is how it works, after you have created your account and done all the verification's, you will be able to accept HITS or Human Intelligence Tasks from Mechanical Turk Requesters.  These HITS can pay as much as $50 to as little as $0.  HITS also range from audio transcribing which seems to be where the money is, down to surveys that pay upwards to $2.00.

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There are also qualifications that requesters may require of a MTurker (Someone who uses Amazon Mechanical Turk) ranging from regional qualifications to audio transcribing qualifications.  If you do not meet these requirements you will simply not be able to accept the hit, or your hit will be REJECTED!!

(FYI being rejected is apparently the number one insult to an MTurker, it affects which HITS you are able to work on and for whom, ii is exactly like  receiving bad review a work )

There are a bunch of Add-on scripts available through Firefox, and Chrome that allow Mturkers to rate requesters, block nuisance HITS, etc.  These can be found here at Mturk Scripts, once there you will have to download Tampermonkey which will allow you to install the scripts and run them. Turkopticon is the script that allows workers to review requesters on Amazon Mechanical Turk, this tool is invaluable.

Well it comes down to can you make money with Mturk?  Here is my total for less than a weeks worth of work, I am hoping to pay for my Amazon Prime account next year with my Earnings!