mturk earnings to date

I haven't been able to set aside much time for Turking in the last two weeks, so rather than weekly earnings here are my Turking Statistics to date. In roughly eight weeks I've made $766.93. I'm looking forward to having more time to devote to the site once the holidays are over.

more gift cards earned

Things have been busy lately with the holidays and out of town guests, I haven't had much time for Turking. I've been able to keep up with surveys and cashed in for $10 gift cards from both Tellwut and OpinionSquare this week. My wife is enjoying CheckPoints and she redeemed another $10 Amazon card this week as well.  The Christmas budget is getting bigger!

Tellwut

OpinionSquare

Checkpoints

review: opinion square is just ok

I've been a member of Opinion Square for 35 days and in that time I've earned 2800 points - one $10.00 CVS gift card costs 2500 points but I haven't redeemed anything yet. In addition to merchandise, Opinion Square offers gift cards for Starbucks, Amazon, iTunes, Applebees, TGI Friday's, AMC Theatres, Bass Pro Shops, KMart, Cabela's, O'Charley's, and more.

I enjoy taking surveys but I'm on the fence about Opinion Square. They often send me email alerts that a study is available, and when I click the link I'm informed that I've already taken the survey (I would estimate that this happens 70% of the time). This drives me nuts, I wish they would stop.

The other thing that's irritating and a time sucker is that you must first qualify for many of the surveys. So you take a pre-survey only to find out you don't qualify for the real survey, and often the pre-survey questions ask for information that Opinion Square already has about you. When a member doesn't qualify for a survey they are given a consolation token - tokens are spent on a game that awards additional points, generally 25 points at a time. Personally, I'd rather they did away with the pre-qual surveys altogether.

Here is a screenshot of my account activity since I signed up on Oct. 11:

You can see that I've completed eight surveys (none more than 10 minutes long) and I have won points with the consolations tokens that I received.

I should mention that Opinion Square offers software for download that they say increases the surveys that are offered. The software is not available for Mac so I can't use it. I'm reluctantly going to stick with Opinion Square for now, I'll continue to track my earnings and decide if I feel my membership is worth it over the next few months.

first tellwut gift card

My first Amazon gift card from Tellwut arrived today, I redeemed the points four days ago and we just had a postal holiday, pretty quick delivery. I was surprised that Tellwut ships the physical cards as opposed to simply emailing a code. I'd say the packaging and shipping were relatively expensive for a $10 reward - the blank gift card and plain envelope came in a large padded mailer.

This is great, I was planning to save these cards to purchase gifts for Christmas, but I may be giving them as gifts, cards and all. My wife says that these are not appropriate gifts for the holidays because the cards say "thank you". I don't care, who's going to complain?

mturk weekly earnings 11/11/12

The following is a summary of activity for my Mechanical Turk account for the week ending Nov 10, 2012.

Approvals and payments that occurred this week:
- Number of HITs approved: 1,120
- Number of HITs rejected: 3
- Bonus reward earned: $6.77
- HIT reward earned: $96.82
- Total Amount earned this week: $103.59

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mini review: thoughts on tellwut

I started using the survey site Tellwut on 10/11/12. The surveys are very quick (generally 1-5 questions) and reward points that can be redeemed for gift cards and merchandise. I signed up to help pay for Christmas presents this year and have decided to redeem my points in Amazon cards. I spend about 10 minutes a day completing the new surveys that are posted (I'm going to start timing myself and add that info to my spread sheet). Here are my stats so far:

10/11/12 joined site
11/4/12 redeemed $10 Amazon gift card
11/9/12 redeemed $10 Amazon gift card

Tellwut also offers gift cards for Home Depot, Walmart, Best Buy, and other brick and mortar stores, I'm hoping they will offer a Paypal option soon. Surveys reward between 5-10 points (business surveys will earn you 15). You can also create surveys to earn points. It takes 4000 points for a $10 gift card, which works out to 5 cents per 20 points. The surveys only take a few seconds each and so far I'm happy with what the rewards for what little work I've put in.

Tellwut gives you 100 free points just for signing up, click to join here.

mturk weekly earnings 11/04/12

The following is a summary of activity for my Mechanical Turk account for the week ending Nov 03, 2012.

Approvals and payments that occurred this week:
- Number of HITs approved: 2,936
- Number of HITs rejected: 15
- Bonus reward earned: $7.20
- HIT reward earned: $142.24
- Total Amount earned this week: $149.44

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mturk weekly earnings 10/21/12

The following is a summary of activity of my Mechanical Turk account for the week ending Oct 20, 2012.

Approvals and payments that occurred this week:
- Number of HITs approved: 1,452
- Number of HITs rejected: 1
- Bonus reward earned: $10.39
- HIT reward earned: $115.72
- Total Amount earned this week: $126.11

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mturk weekly earnings 10/14/12

The following is a summary of activity for my Mechanical Turk account for the week ending Oct 13, 2012.

Approvals and payments that occurred this week:
- Number of HITs approved: 651
- Number of HITs rejected: 3
- Bonus reward earned: $7.00
- HIT reward earned: $156.56
- Total Amount earned this week: $163.56

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