Ok, i admit it, i should have actually done more research before applying to mturk, and luckily i didn't waste that much time and effort on it (stlil, 10 days of what i consider decent work on my part isn't that small of a deal), but i'm afraid it was all for nothing and would like you guys to confirm this (or better yet, disprove it). So, after i've done some reading, i've come to the conclusion that i can't o anything with my earned money - I live in Croatia, a country which Amazon currently doesn't ship to;. Aside from that, if i understand the gift certificate balance correctly, i can't use the money i have in there to make a gift card for someone, which i could then sell on e-bay or something. (actually i don't have any money in the gift certificate acc yet, just on my mturk dashboard) As you can see, this leaves me with a nice little sum of money which i can't spend in any way. Am i really screwed, or is there some way i can make use of the money i've earned?
You could buy something from amazon and then use a US mail forwarding service to get your item delivered to you.. Check out Shipito or ComGateway etc and see if that could work for you. Other than that I can't think of much :/
here is an addon to check whether a store ships to a specific country/region https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/does-amazon-ship-to/ it is very useful and you can ship almost anything directly to your doorstep this addon is also available for google chrome.