Warning - Jon Brelig on rejecting spree (again)

Discussion in 'Requesters' started by Hi. It's me, Sep 5, 2012.

  1. abrahamrohithroy

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    Thank you for replying. I haven't got a single mail for my many queries even half the length of this post :) But still you haven't mentioned what to do with discounts, savings, coupons and also the numbers with the "-" sign on them.

    I know that your HITS need no qualifications. If you want to improve result quality, you have to ask for workers who have at least 1000 approval and 95% approval rate. That's what most of the good requesters ask for. You'll definitely see a magical marked difference in the work quality you'll get. I don't think Amazon will charge you extra for putting qualifications.

    Also you need to increase the time from 45 minutes to 60 minutes for long receipts.
     
  2. trueakitalover

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    LET'S LOOK AT THESE DIRECTIONS.

    Extract items from shopping receipt:
    Instructions:

    Transcribe the purchased items in the receipt below, copy text exactly HMM EXACTLY MEANS SHOULDN'T WE INCLUDE THE QUANTITIES ALSO?
    For each item, enter the description and the amount
    Long Receipt Bonus: $0.02 bonus reward for every 10 additional items for long receipts

    Now where does it mention what we should do if there is no date included?
    What should a person mark it if it has -10.43 receipt for the total like what I have had.
    What do we mark it as?
    What about the fact how much of it should be too blurry?

    I have another question for you is this what you guys don't realize is we may spend the actual amount of time on the receipts and when you reject it we don't get zilch. I mean most of us put a decent amount of effort into the work, there has to be a better way to approve and reject than just reject everything at once.

    Also why let the work trickle in when you could literally put 100's of these up and let us work on them in batches. I mean the 1-2 is ok but bigger batches are easier for us to work on.

    Having multiple reviewers is not good for us as the workers, cause then we can't get a clear understanding of what is acceptable and what is not. It's just like giving a kindergartner a way to do his or her math and she has 5 different ways to do it and then she goes to the one teacher and she gets it marked wrong, but the other teacher marks it correctly. The child is the one that gets confused. Just like we get confused now, everyone of the reviewers should be on the same page as each other. Not having 50 different ways that it can be rejected or accepted.

    Why have their been multiple receipts of the same one coming up lately?

    I am not trying to be nasty just pointing things out. Celeste.


    This is a preview of hit, click ACCEPT HIT above to complete
     
  3. Scott

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    Celeste,

    Thanks for being here and giving feeback.

    Here are things that may come in handy. The abilty to put in negative for when an item is removed off an receipt. I have been rejected for this in the past. or a "discount" box above the total.

    In some states it appears there is a deposit fee. Some stores have it included in price, some not.

    Target for example has the discount as another line - I have had receipts rejected "for missing items" and I know it was like:
    0000000000 - Tshirt $10
    0000000001 - Tshirt coupon -$5

    I put in $5 for the shirt and the reject was "missing items from receipt"

    But anyways, thanks again for being here..
     
  4. trueakitalover

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    I still say the magnifier for the distant receipts will work when they are shot from a distance. This is where the magnifier will help in this case.

    Also can you please fix the albertson's receipts, cause 98% of them do not have the upc numbers, but only the description of the products.

    Also how about adding more than 1 box for the taxes. I mean that is being as accurate as we can with the Receipts. This will help you guys and us out.

    Also if we can't see the total, but can see the tax and sub-totals why can't we add it up and put it as the answer. 99% of the time it will be accurate like it should be.
     
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  5. abrahamrohithroy

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    Magnifier is good and advisable if and only if they can make a good magnifier tool without making the web-page sluggish, especially the scrolling. With what I've seen in mTurk, they've all messed it up with the magnifier feature. All those HITs are slow and sluggish and scrolls like a snail.

    Yes, they can add 1 more box for the receipts that has 2 or more taxes mentioned separately. I usually add it up when there is 2 taxes.

    Also the negative (-) sign issue should be fixed, if they want to include coupons.
     
  6. trueakitalover

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    How about adding a comment box so that we can tell them what is missing also or why we couldn't do a certain aspect so they can read it and tell us what is going wrong.

    You haven't tried the other receipt data entry hits then. There is one that shows up for 0.05 and it has all the above mentioned and is not sluggish it makes it a lot faster than what we have to do with this one.
     
  7. abrahamrohithroy

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    I've seen the title "receipt data entry" when I'm viewing "All Hits". But it's locked to me, cannot even open them. :( :( I think it's 'only-US' qualification.
     
  8. Scott

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    Also - I have seen some receipts that go bad quick if folded or stuffed in a bad. You can read the Store name, the total, date.. but not ALL of the items - what do we do then when we can see some of it?

    I am "OCD" when it comes to putting things in right - I even caculate up the items to be sure if it equals the total. But sometimes you can make it out and have to guess - Or the receipt is wrinkled, shadows cast cause it to not always make out a total.

    I think in the "Get Store name from receipt" should be "Get quality of receipt" while you input store name.
    have an option that says Its clear, but receipt was shot incorrectly (blury, cut off a few items, wrinkled, etc..

    But anyhow - at least thank you for providing work.
     
  9. HITSupervisor

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    Before we really get going here, can I ask you all a few questions?

    - is this a freelance forum or one provided by Amazon? I am just curious.
    - can we start a separate topic for this that will attract those most interested? e.g. Jon Brelig HIT's HELP Forum? (and if so, please be sure to tell me about it on here and I will switch over to it)
    - can I send a link to such a topic to other HIT workers that contact me with questions or problems? It would help me to be able to address questions most often asked, plus it would help to have more input on this so we can all help each other.

    Thank you all for your comments thus far, if we do start a new topic, please be sure to copy them over.

    I have been given the directive to communicate with you and the HIT task makers in our firm to improve this area of our business. So now you have my attention and I have gotten the attention of those that can do something with it. I cannot promise all the items you would like can be added, there are limits to program capability and what our tasks require, but we will do our best to make those improvements that are possible, it is going to take some time and we do ask your patience.
    Thank you, Celeste
     
  10. trueakitalover

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    Celeste,

    We can do a new topic in Requesters and you can put in it the Jon Brelig's Help Area. This way you can start a fresh that way.
     
  11. HITSupervisor

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    Could I ask you to do that for me, I am not familiar with this forum and how it works and I don't have the time to learn, thanks! Just leave the forwarding link here and I will meet you there when I am back on. I will try to check in every day, but some days I won't be able to. Could we start with a simple question list for the current tasks and then we can get to a wish list? Thanks!
     
  12. abrahamrohithroy

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    I'll also do the same, total everything up, even if the total is clear. That confirms that all my entries are correct and can be double sure that I've not left out anything.

    Yes, that should be implemented. At least, we'll not get rejected for the time we put into the work. We should mark that it is "cut off a few items" or "blurry in some parts"and enter the remaining ones.
     
  13. Bertha

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    I have never had problems with Jon Brelig Hits. I'm not even sure what the people posting are going on about. It seems like you must have a lot of time on your hands. If the work this requester puts up doesn't work for you...move on. You are making the members of this forum look like a bunch of complainers. If your work keeps getting rejected just move on, attempt other Hits instead of wasting so much energy.
     
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  14. HITSupervisor

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    Thank you for the new topic set up! I will go there from here on out. Please bring your questions, comments and suggestions from here to there.
    Bertha, I am happy to hear that you don't have problems with out HIT's, but I know that others have, I do see emails from unhappy workers. We want to address these issues and make our HIT's better so we get better results. Please be sure to join the new discussion group, your experience can be valuable.
    See you all there!
    Celeste
     
  15. ewd76

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    I was wondering about that. I ran across one of those and just returned the HIT.
     
  16. Meg9

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    I did a couple of his "enter store name" receipt hits, but after running out of time (only 2 minutes!) on a long receipt when I was trying to figure out if there were at least 50 items I gave up on his hits. If you want someone to do a job well, timing out the hit after just 2 minutes isn't going to do it! I emailed him to let him know about the time problem that I ran into, but I doubt that he will make any changes to his hits.
     
  17. zEric7x

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    I did a few are the receipts the same and enter store name hits. I thought the idea was interesting but the hits I was doing only paid 1 cent which seemed low.
     

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