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How I Made $350 In Two Days With Three Pages and Some Payment Code

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Re: How I Made $350 In Two Days With Three Pages and Some Payment Code

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Post by acangiano »

jheriko wrote: post #4

So, if I understand this is essentially reselling Mechanical Turk services with a little work in hiding the details from the customer? I'm not quite sure if this is a scam or not... ...but I can think of plenty of cases where people sell "expertise" which boils down to the same thing... normally its a bit more complicated than this though. I wonder if the customers would pay if they knew of Amazon's service? My guess…

It's service to non-US based users.

Re: How I Made $350 In Two Days With Three Pages and Some Payment Code

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Post by dget »

jheriko wrote: post #4

So, if I understand this is essentially reselling Mechanical Turk services with a little work in hiding the details from the customer? I'm not quite sure if this is a scam or not... ...but I can think of plenty of cases where people sell "expertise" which boils down to the same thing... normally its a bit more complicated than this though. I wonder if the customers would pay if they knew of Amazon's service? My guess…

Figuring out how to use mTurk, figuring out how to ask questions to get useful results, and tabulating/summarizing answers are all things that the person who is asking for the tests probably has more important things to do, particularly the first two. It's a fair amount of work.

Re: How I Made $350 In Two Days With Three Pages and Some Payment Code

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Post by dshipper »

markbao wrote: post #10
dshipper wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This weekend haha I'm not that much of a masochist to do it by hand forever :)

https://github.com/mdp/rturk happy birthday!

thanks Mark I saw that it's definitely going to make my life a lot easier

Re: How I Made $350 In Two Days With Three Pages and Some Payment Code

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Post by pbreit »

jheriko wrote: post #4

So, if I understand this is essentially reselling Mechanical Turk services with a little work in hiding the details from the customer? I'm not quite sure if this is a scam or not... ...but I can think of plenty of cases where people sell "expertise" which boils down to the same thing... normally its a bit more complicated than this though. I wonder if the customers would pay if they knew of Amazon's service? My guess…

I don't get this attitude. All of business is using raw materials to create something that people are willing to pay for. Using Mechanical Turk is not always a pleasant experience. There is quite a bit of nuance on how to price things, how to qualify submissions and submitters, etc (not that a service will get all this correct right out of the gate). And don't forget, we're talking about a rather modest $10-40.

Re: How I Made $350 In Two Days With Three Pages and Some Payment Code

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Post by nedwin »

bemmu wrote: post #8
jheriko wrote: post #4

So, if I understand this is essentially reselling Mechanical Turk services with a little work in hiding the details from the customer? I'm not quite sure if this is a scam or not... ...but I can think of plenty of cases where people sell "expertise" which boils down to the same thing... normally its a bit more complicated than this though. I wonder if the customers would pay if they knew of Amazon's service? My guess…

Nothing wrong with reselling stuff. Also, Mechanical Turk is not available in all countries.

"reselling stuff" aka commerce. definitely nothing wrong with it.
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