Alternative to Sweating for Pennies?
04-03-09
Amazon has a service called Mechanical Turk. There are two kinds of people who use this service. They are Requesters and Workers. The Requesters fund their accounts and offer HITS (human intelligence tasks). There are a variety of HITS available, so there should be something for everyone. In just a few days, doing very little work, I’ve accumulated more than $5.00. Which, if I have done my math correctly, is the equivalent of 10,000 sweat sold at 0.5 PEC.
Payments are done with Amazon gift cards, the amount you withdraw is posted into your Amazon gift card balance. Then there is an option to transfer the funds into your personal bank account. It is not currently known if they accept foreign bank accounts, hopefully an adventurous EU member would be willing to try this and post their results.
So, in a nutshell, Amazon’s Mechanical Turk service offers, I think, an excellent alternative to sweating for all EU players.
Link: Amazon Mechanical Turk
