Every Mturk Worker (specially Indians) should read this and THINK

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  1. Munawar Mohamad

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    Its just a month that i have been into mturk and i earned about 60$ and felt so much happier finding a new source for earning money online after learning with the basics of other methods like survey taking and Paid to Click sites.I was even happier that i could withdraw my earnings in my currency which is a previlege given by amazon to Indians apart from US.

    Once been blocked by a requester and with an account warning from amazon, i had dedicated a lot of my time towards the sincere working on mturk and i was very pretty sure of my work i was doing...I had always taken care not to provide low quality work to my requesters...If i cudnt understand the instructions ...i wudnt do it...

    But BANG , still amazon suspended my account and forfeited all my hardwork of about 60$ claiming that I was blocked by multiple requesters...Guys please tell , is this fair enough to be so much strict to workers ? that too the sytem paying such a low wage to the workers..

    When a requester does something he/she even if is removed doesnt lose anything...But we workers strive to the maximum and due to some probable scamsters who block us we get suspended losing all our money...The amazon shud first all of be of more care to the workers and stop this discrmination..They shud eliminate this previlege of requesters to block a worker due to the chances that some blocks are unnecassary and other being the automatic involvement of sytem meaning our true answer were not among the false answers which were the majority ..Where is justice guys ? I think we should all raise our voice against this ...

    Hundreds of US citizens and companies depend a lot on on we Indian BPO / customer service companies..We do them this help with a meager fees.The same way many requesters on mturk depend on workers like us who spend time here for a part-time earning

    The many giant companies like Google and Yahoo blocks their services like adsense from our usage only when we violated their TOS.Amazon should also apply the method rather than accusing us that we were blocked by some requesters who are probably scammers whose repuation is unknown to them.Its like Requesters can violate their rules but not we, the workers.

    The suspension was really a bad occurence for me in my whole 6 month online money making involvement programs.After say half a day my account was suspended and i send them a a mail regarding this i have not yet received an explanation or reply on this concern and i dont expect though.

    For the least they should atleast let the workers to cashout their earnings before forfeiting them.This is not just intolerance but a deep barbarianism.I request all my fellow brothers and sisters out here both now be it of any nationality, to write a letter to mturk regarding this harsh poicies of theirs which results in such negative feedback as one which i just produced here

    Thank you all
     
  2. riazthemturkhelper

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    Yes, Bro.. Now Mturk is a place should be and is to be quoted as "The place for people where Requesters are the Kings and Workers are beggars". Very sad to see your post. :( I sent a letter to them asking about their status of doing this injustice...
     
  3. Munawar Mohamad

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    So much bro so much to say

    1) First they dont or cant pay through paypal ( coz paypal is owned by ebay and so using that wudnt benfit them..To point out being such a giant company amazon cant have its own payment processor facility)

    2)Second they suspend worker not for violating TOS but if blocked by requesters whose reputation is even unknown to them ...Then how could we recognize ?

    3) No response emails are received except the automated query

    4) Charge 4$ for each mail they sent that too ordinary post...Just askin will it cost us 200Rs (4$) to send an ordinary post mail to US ? Let alone amazon is not an individual like us but a huge company..Hope no one compares it near to google and yahoo.When sending mails is free at this time just with a click...amazon charges workers 4 $ for post mailing a cheque...PITY


    To those who know or have been into many online money making schemes they all know most of them pay through paypal...A day back i cashed out some 3$ from a social site where they promised to send it thru paypal within 24 hours...Two days passed and nothing happened...I send them my concern email thru their contact page and within 2 hours the amount was in my paypal account...When such tiny organizations like them can transfer thru paypal..am sure with some atleast 500 users like me there...the site wud have send some 1500$ dollars into many paypal account whereas mturk says 6 weeks for a cheque to be issued that too after a long verification of address details...As if paypal users outside users are some fake ppl or bots ...

    The fact is they are being scammed by the requesters as they mostly violate the TOS asking workers to like their pages...register under sites etcetra...of which the victims falling into the prey are the poor workers
     
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  4. seesaw

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    Power of Blocking workers should be only given to experienced and honest requesters like oscar smith,crowdsource,crowdflower.etc
     
  5. riazthemturkhelper

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    Seesaw is telling right...
     
  6. riazthemturkhelper

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    There should be a Trusty Rating for all Requesters where we Workers can put on.. as per their genuinety, promptness and fairness to the reward and all some matters and the like. I am telling about the Requesters needed to be identified by a trust worthy rating % as per the experience of the workers.
     
  7. Munawar Mohamad

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    Yeah ...thats right...Oscar Smith was my fave requester..Hes always accepted and paid for ma hit as soon as possible...I was even gona et master qualification for his hit...BUT...
     
  8. riazthemturkhelper

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    oh... bro.. that's so sad...
     
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    After all the hard work we do, Mturk keep on suspending the account of Indians . Why is it so that we get the lesser pay rate and more account termination than the others???

    Its time that Amazon should check on the requestors Identity and their past history. I strongly feel that requestors once blocked comes back to Mturk in a different name and continue their fraud play in Mturk.

    I support Seesow that the Power of Blocking workers should be only given to experienced and honest requesters.
    Hope it comes true one day :(
     
  11. Munawar Mohamad

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    YEah ...right....I used to love turking and now it has become a big nightmare for me after i lost my valuable 60$ in my account i earned within a month...


    I really wish if somebody could tel me a way to report Mturk...somewhere...somehow...They deserved to sued by ppl like me whose accounts were suspend due to their harsh rules and reasons quite not known to us
    SAD
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  12. appuceles

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    Trust me, nothing is gonna change..

    I know it sounds a bit harsh..But its true..I've came across such complaints, since years. And not even a single measure was taken to protect the workers, from MTurk's side. More than your caliber, its luck that matters here. The only , and ONLY thing you can do be safe is, do the HITs of trusted requesters only. Sounds insane, but I know many people doing so. And they are safe since years!

    NB: Get a review about the requester from Turkopticon.
     
  13. Munawar Mohamad

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    Mturk sucks to the core...They are yet to earn their repuation as a giant company...I ''l report evrything i can about mtruk on any forum i tALK ON
     
  14. Sayantan

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    May be a small mouth to say these words but, if we all the people here in this forum request some of the requester that we had made our personal site where they can send us their work in return they will pay us through paypal. If we Indian in this forum take the responsibility then our nxt gen should get harrased by all this NON INDIA company who treat us like beggars. I know its a long journey but..... :-(
     
  15. Sayantan

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    We can always try............ And agar hum indian kuch dilse chahe to woo hasil karke hi rehete hai!!!!
    Angrejo ko hum nehi laat mara tha jab wo hamare peet pe laat mar rahe the to aaj why shouldnt we if Amazon is Discriminating Us??
     
  16. Sayantan

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    And I think if atleast 40% of Indian get get moved away from Turk, Amazon ka band bajne wala hai!!!
     
  17. Sayantan

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    WE all have complained against Amazon, think have we EVER TOOK ANY STEP TO STOP IT??
    We always have been dependent on others work, yaar do some thing so that atleast we can try to change. We all are VICTIMS OF MTURK.
     
  18. Sayantan

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    Please man.... Atleast we can try too yaar please awaj uthao na...fir dekhoto....please....Why cannt we make a seperate INDIAN TASK SITE....... Only Indian... No other country...... Requester from MTurk will provide us work if we contact them...... Requester can be from any country but worker only from India.....Please We cannot be Country HERO but itna to kar sakte hai na???
     
  19. Sayantan

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    Yaar koi to jawab do......... Hum apne bacho ko nahi kehe sakte ki hum 50 dusman ko mare apne Bharat k liye....... Lekin chahe to yea to bol sakte hai na 500 Bhartia ka Hard earned money bachae hum!!!!! Maaannnnnnn.... Tell man tell~~~~~~~~~~
     
  20. Munawar Mohamad

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    haan teek bol rahe ho aap

    ek aisa site hona chaahiye jahaan beech mein koi nahi ho ...sirf requester aur worker

    And there requester could ask us to improvize our work and then only pay us when they are satisfied...atleast no rejection and blocks happen

    I have seen many good requesters on mturk who mail me asking to improvize the work or rectify..i do it and they approve and pay me...how nice ? but some are real scamsters
     
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