01/19 - Serene Saturday!

Amazon Requester Inc. - Rekognition Team [A2BV8ZPEIWC1XE] Text Transcription - $0.03 | PANDA

Underpaid

Unrated

Unrated

$4.32 / hour
00:00:25 / completion time

Pros:
Transcribe 18 words/phrases/numbers that are mostly related to business. There are tens of thousands of HITs posted when they drop their batches, so you can do these if there is nothing else to do. The interface they give you is easy enough to use, and you can skip unintelligible phrases or anything with Unicode symbols.

Cons:
The work needed for 3 cents is way too much. There is no good hourly to be gained at all, even if you type at 100+ WPM. 18 words/phrases is way too little for 3 cents, and it only gets worse if you're hit with phone numbers or longer words with multiple symbols.
The HIT always takes forever to load (at least 10 seconds for each HIT), and you're forced to click the text box and submit button, so there is no way to do this all on your keyboard. All of these annoyances contribute to the abysmal hourly for this HIT.
After all of this, there is a 7 day auto-approval period. I have not had any HITs rejected from doing this batch, but it is still nerve-wracking and annoying to wait for these HITs to approve. There is a lot of risk doing this HIT, and for the underpaid hourly from a rejection happy requester like this one, it is not worth it at all.
The sad thing is that Rekognition knows that the hourly is bad, but they'll still post these HITs anyway since they know that it will be completed by those actually willing to work for such low wages. It is doubtful that they will ever increase the pay rate or make the HIT easier and faster to complete.

Qualifications: RekognitionBlocked DoesNotExist ; HIT approval rate (%) > 90; rekognition internal DoesNotExist ; Location NotIn US-AL, US-AR, US-HI, US-IA, US-ID, US-LA, US-ME, US-MO, US-MS, US-NE, US-NM, US-OK, US-RI, US-SD, US-UT, US-VT, US-WY;

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And yet @ChrisTurk paid you nothing for this review.

 

i get paid in TV points, at least it's something

 

tl;dr

 

@ChrisTurk go to sleep.

 

How many different alt accounts does CT have?

 

He is awake and loled my post then removed the rating.

But he does post long reviews like @sarin

 

Add @hvnnvr to the CT alt list, he posts long and unnecessarily in depth reviews too.

 

wait no he loled sarin's post.

I'm going to bed... zzz

 

Lucky I only got a wow

 

I finally have a day to go out into the world and good money slips by me.

 

You really would rather sit there and earn $25 instead of going outside and having fun?

 

So I went out to Oliver Garden (someone else's choice) because I had a Red Lobster gift card... thinking Red Lobster was still part of Darden (which Oliver Garden is) only to find out Darden sold Red Lobster so my gift card was no longer valid there. Basically now I'm out $50 instead of $25 for shitty "Italian" food. Yeah. I would have rather stayed at home to make the $25 then spend $25 more than I thought I was going to.

 

CT is one of my alts.

 

doesn’t it usually say on the back of those if it’s valid for their various chains of restaurants?

 

Only in English so that doesn't help him much.

 

Ask and ye shall receive...you're forgiven.

 

i thought everyone just regifted gift cards

 

People normally just give me amazon gift cards so that isn't an issue.

 

Oh just sell them