Ramble Writing of R.D. Hayes

I’ve heard a lot of things about Amazon Mechanical Turk being a scam so I decided to check it out myself. I wanted to provide an honest review of the program. What is Amazon Turk? Put simply, Amazon Turk is a largely growing market place for work which requires human intelligence. Some of the task on Amazon Turk are writing product descriptions, transcribing audio files and videos, doing research for companies, selecting objects from pictures or videos, or searching data details. The entire site is based solely on marketers needing research they believe only a human can do. When a company or developer needs tasks done, they can assess Amazon Turk’s market place and create a HIT (Human Intelligence Tasks). These HITs pay mostly in pennies but can add up over time, and take hardly any time to complete. Is Amazon Turk a Scam? This can only be answered in two parts; the first part being Amazon Turk, and the second being the company or developer. Let’s take a look ...

Stop deleting those annoying emails and find out where the Kool-Aid is at. We all get them, and I hate them but, I did find a way to be paid for them. It’s called Paribus . It takes 15 seconds to sign up and worth every second. Paribus scans your emails for receipts to over 16 places such as Target, Amazon, and even Walmart. It looks for these receipts and tracks your purchases. If it finds any of those receipts and sees that there has been a price drop in the items that you have purchased, it will issue a refund according to those price drops. Paribus is where the Kool-Aid is and helps you find money where you didn’t know it was. Most retailers will offer a price difference if they have a price drop within so many days or weeks. There is nothing that you need to do since Paribus contacts those retailers for you.   Paribus charges a fee of 25% for helping to find those price drops. They do require you to add a credit card to your account. The credit card is so they c...