$5 HIT - Make Virtual Bank Transactions for Human-Computer Interaction Research

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  1. Khalinov

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    This one is floating around currently. I grabbed it this morning.

    In this HIT you will be asked to make 150 virtual bank transactions.
    The assignment takes only approximetly 2.5 hours long (~ 1minute per transaction)

    Requires Chrome 9+, Firefox 4+ or IE8+
    Avoid changing your IP while working the HIT.
    Other detailed instructions in the HIT.

    You are allotted 3 days to complete it.

    Quals: Total approved HITs is greater than 500, HIT approval rate (%) is not less than 95.
    No stated geographic restrictions.

    Requester: Human Computer Interaction Research (A1ELKVZ2J83ZH)

    According to Turkopticon, it pays in 5 days; the autoapprove value is 21 days.

    EDIT - I tried a few of these test transactions. I found it will take longer to do the transactions than the requester admits. His one minute estimate per is, IMO, quite optimistic. My best case was 2 minutes, which bloats the time for the entire HIT up to 300 minutes (5 hours). I can do better than $1 an hour with less aggravation.

    I returned the HIT uncompleted. YMMV.
     
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  2. SingingThroughTheStorm

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    I am starting to get closer to a U.S. minimum wage on MTurk, but this does sound interesting.

    Any idea what the point of this HIT is? Sounds sort of fishy.
     
  3. BMW-M3

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    It's risky. I accepted the hit a month ago. First the password given was incorrect, the requester mailed the password after a day. Then, after a few trials, the page wouldn't proceed. No matter what I do the page just used to get stuck. I returned the hit. I am glad the page got stuck in the initial few tries. I dread the thought of the page getting stuck after a 100 trials. Its impossible to do it in 2.5 hours. Add an hour to it at least and consider the pay out. Its not a great pay.
     
  4. kalikool123

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    cool one, didnt see this thread earlier :(
     
  5. riazthemturkhelper

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  6. Harry Potter

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    Hi,

    I did this and got approved. It took around 3 hours for me to complete the hit.
     
  7. riazthemturkhelper

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    Very very lucky man... :)
     

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