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Paid Survey sites - Irish Opinions, Acumen, RedC etc
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About three weeks.Don't worry RED C are the most reliable of survey companies.It will arrive soon.I never had a problem with them for over seven years.
first time using them, i know they're reputable and all, i'm just concerned that the post was/is late as it was processed on the 2nd, should be next week so, ta
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Join Date:Posts: 7246
I'm just over a week into the two sites that I signed up for and posted about above, so thought I'd give a very early review for anyone that is interested.
The first is Prolific, and this has seen me take a few standard type surveys that you would all be used to. You don't get emailed when a survey is up for inclusion, however you have to monitor the 'studies' page on the website to reserve your place when one does pop up. I have not had that many, but most of the low value ones were done in 4 to 6 minutes. If I recall the one valued at £0.30 had three questions total. The one for £3.80 took about 20 minutes. As I have reached the £5 threshold, I can cash out to Paypal whenever I like. You pay the Paypal fees however, so it is worth holding out a little bit in order to reduce that fee.
The second is Amazon Mechanical Turk, or MTurk for short. This has been a whole different ball game and is just an unbelievable place to even know it exists. First off, you cannot get cash from Mturk, unless you are resident in the US or India. All other 'turkers' can only be paid by amazon.com giftcard balances. This can only be amazon.com and can't be transferred to amazon.co.uk. Now that sounds like a lost deal straight away, but I have been doing some shopping lists on amazon.com and I have stuff lined up to purchase, mainly from china based sellers. A lot of them offer free international shipping, but even Amazon's own shipping form the US is not too high. There are risks of import fees, but that is a different worry.
In terms of pay, it is the absolute bottom of the bucket rates, but the tasks themselves are even more bizarre. There are standard surveys, but aside from these I have had to:
Identify fish and draw their outline from an underwater picture
Transcribe audio from people giving audio evaluations on products
Put red dots on peoples faces in a crowd
Identify and draw blocks around plates at a Chinese/Japanese restaurant, from pictures taken with an overhead camera
Engage in a conversation with a chatbot
Give sample answers that a chatbot would use.
I could go on, but its clear that a lot of the high tech AI that we have in so many systems, only comes about from some poor human sucker who is feeding the learning examples to the respective program.
I have included my current earnings for the last week, although they are not complete. Once you submit a 'hit', the 'requester' has to approve your work and then you get paid. You can cash out to Amazon once a day, but only after you have worked your first 10 days, so I will be doing this in 2 or 3 days.
Regarding pay, there are some tasks that pay only $0.01, with other going to $0.10 or up to $1. It all varies, but aside from the time on the task itself, you spend time finding the right task. As a non US person, most tasks are excluded from my list, but there are some good ones that will open up once I get past my first 1,000 hits, as requesters have the choice to put this rule into their conditions.
In terms of time, what you see here is the result of an hour to an hour and a half each night, but note that it is done while watching netflix/youtube on the second screen and this on the first, so is not dedicated time. I still have some pending, but that equates to $2 to $3 dollars an hour which is ridiculous tbh, but there is a bit of experiancel you start to buildup and look to get the higher paying hits, that in itself has a bit of a buzz. I don't know how, but I got a game testing hit that was half an hour and it paid $8, but this is very much the exception that proves the rule. Anyhow, just thought I'd give some early feedback, feel free to ask any questions.
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Aceandstuff wrote: »...Except for the printing costs. I use my One4All vouchers in Penneys anyway. Got a free (faux) fur coat with 2x€10 Penneys vouchers and a €15 One4All voucher last year, so I'm happy out!
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15 cent in the library to print a sheet, great way to use the pesky brown moneyThe internet isn’t for everyone
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