Identify Contact Name and Email - 820 HITs, Easy Search, Bonus

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  1. PhoenixRPR

    PhoenixRPR Member

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    Hello everyone! I posted 820 HITs today under the name Robert Reynolds. (link below) The task is to search a company provided and enter the contact name and email address for any of the 18 titles listed (or similar). Bonus paid to anyone that provides 5+ contacts & emails.

    mturk.com/mturk/searchbar?selectedSearchType=hitgroups&searchWords=robert+reynolds&minReward=0.00&.x=0&.y=0
     
  2. PhoenixRPR

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    Thanks so far to anyone that's participated, results have been great today. I still have 527 HITs remaining for you! Just search Robert Reynolds
    NOTE: Please provide both the Contact Name AND Email Address. If you can't find the matching email address for the contact, don't submit the HIT back to me. Move on to the next one.
    Thanks!
     
  3. LadyTexan

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    The first 2 hits I accepted showed error codes for the website address, and the company name given was too generic and gave too many results (or none, in one case) when I searched for it. The next hit (a bank) did not provide any individual contact information. Took about 20 minutes to do these 3 hits for no pay. Search-return-repeat + no pay = unhappy turker.
     
  4. PhoenixRPR

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    LadyTexan - I'm sorry you didn't have a good experience with those HITs. Unfortunately, this is a data gathering HIT for a reason, meaning some data is missing. If the website isn't listed, then I'd suggest searching the company name & physical address provided to find the website. Less than 10% of the 800+ companies are lacking a website URL. If you prefer to do the easier HITs, you can cycle through to the ones that provide the URL to make you search for contacts much easier! =)
     
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    307 HITs remain! Search Robert Reynolds

    mturk.com/mturk/searchbar?selectedSearchType=hitgroups&searchWords=robert+reynolds&minReward=0.00&.x=0&.y=0
     
  6. PhoenixRPR

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    320 of the HITs don't have website URLs unfortunately. When I pulled these company lists, not all of them had website URLs unfortunately. However, all of these do have both a company name AND physical address, so you shouldn't be confused as to which one is the correct company. For example, "El & El Wood Products" into Google yields elandelwoodproducts.com (pretty safe bet that's the one). If you're not certain, you can plug in the physical address I provided "6011 Schaefer Ave" along with the company name and it becomes obvious in the results that's the one I'm looking for contacts.

    With the company name and physical address provided, combined with a little common sense, it's quick to determine what's the correct company website to research.
     
  7. VixSin

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    Wait let me get this right. .25 for something that appears to take people 10 minutes and it is not even a guaranteed payout. You must be crazy. You must think people hop on mturk for giggles like none of us have anything better to do. I average .25 a minute and you are not worth my time if you do not pay me for it. My time is not free.

    Obviously your time is worth more then what you are paying to get these hits done or you would do them yourself. How insulting that you think people may be excited for $1.50 an hour - maybe. I am shocked at the amount of people here that think this is a charity and now requesters think it is acceptable to tell someone their time is worth nothing.

    If you are running a business with this data then I am going to go ahead and give you this advise. If you are hurting so badly you can not pay your contractors for the honest work they do, you have no viable business at all. It has already failed.

    I hope people ignore your hits like the plague unless you pay a viable wage for them. Data gathering is what I do the most on mturk and I make good money doing it. Your pathetic excuse of it being data gathering for a reason doesn't excuse your greed to get free work.
     
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    This part of the instruction (which I noticed, when I looked at the HITs just now, doesn't actually appear to be anywhere in the instructions) is what would make me avoid doing these. I don't do any HITs where the requester's answer is to simply return the HIT if the information isn't there.

    An example of a good way to handle this sort of thing is the way Medcrowd does it. I do a lot of HITs for them that involve finding websites for dental practices given the name of a dentist and an address. There are many, many instances where that provider might not have a website for their practice. Instead of having wasted my time and having to return the HIT, I check a box in the HIT that says no website was found, and submit it - and get paid for it. After all, I still spent my time working, even if I didn't find a result. But, finding no result (or in the case you mention, a partial result) is still a result. I can understand the temptation to not pay people for those, but I'd think it would make more sense then to have a lower rate of base pay and then bonuses for finding more names (which is something you already have in these).

    If you had a store, and someone worked at the cash register, would you not give them their hourly wage if no one came in to shop during that time?
     
  9. PhoenixRPR

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    @VixSin - The HIT doesn't take anywhere near 10 minutes, not sure wher eyou're getting your information from, but the average time for over 800 of my HITs completed has been 3 minutes. I agree with you that if it took 10+ minutes, then the pay is way off. The example I gave of searching for El and El Wood Products took me less than 1 minutes to find their website and another 1.5 minutes to find at least one contact and email address.

    @danawhitaker - I can understand that perspective and I agree that workers should be paid for their time spent. But keep in mind that in 100% of my HITs, contact names and email addresses DO exist for every single company I have listed. So if a worker takes the HIT and then decides to stop searching for the information because they personally couldn't find it as quickly as they hoped, that's their decision, but the information DOES exist. I'm paying folks to find it, not to try.
     

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