Earn money with Amazon Mechanical Turk: As part of our Christmas cash series, I want to introduce you to a money making site called Amazon Mechanical Turk. With Amazon Mechanical Turk, you can get paid to do simple tasks online. Amazon Turk is part of Amazon, and it is Amazon who pays you. They pay via direct deposit or Amazon gift cards. I tried Amazon Turk about 1 – 2 years ago, and it was NOT for me. I think I made a total of $9, and for the time I put into it, it was not worth it… I make a lot more money in a lot less time from paid survey sites.
However, several of our readers really like this site, so you may want to give it a try and see what you think. The best paying tasks on Amazon Mechanical Turk go quickly, so you need to check the site frequently if you want to make much money. You can make anywhere from a few cents per task to $10 or more per task. Most tasks I’ve found and done pay $2 – 3 or less. The tasks are varied (everything from writing an article, creating a video, data input to ????). One problem I have with MTurk (both in the past and now) is I that have found some tasks that were “morally questionable” for lack of better wording, and also some tasks that asked you to do things that were against the rules on a specific site. (Like for example, one person was paying people to vote for his entry on a contest site, which was clearly against the rules of the contest site.) So please be careful with this site. You can earn some extra money from it, but please don’t sell yourself out etc.
***This post is part of our Christmas cash series!***
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I tried it about a year ago and tried several projects which worked out to about $1-$2 per hour, which I decided wasn’t worth it.
Yes, the good gigs go quickly, which is why I didn’t find anything good.