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Amazon Mechanical Turk is a mass-micro outsourcing API, where you can get lots's of small simple tasks (e.g."Is there a shop in this image") done relatively cheaply (e.g. 0.10 U$ per image).
Amazon seems to assume that this service is mostly of interest to US companies. This results in difficulties if you want to use the service (as an "Requester"): for example there is no easy way of funding your Account without an US Bank account.
Can somebody share experiences of using the Service from outside the US?
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Since then we had added many more countries and thousands of new Requesters have registered from outside the US. They have created millions of tasks and paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to Workers.
A Requester may reject your work if they believe the answer is wrong, the HIT was not completed correctly, or that the instructions were not followed. If you believe that your work was rejected in error, you may decide to contact the Requester directly.
You have to pay taxes on any earnings. It's income, so yes.
Yes. One account per person.
Since Amazon doesn't let outside US access yet, you'll need to either:
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I think they recently changed their rules - I am based in Australia, and as recently as 6 months ago I was unable to use Mechanical Turk. That recently changed and now I am able to post jobs on the service.
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You may want to take a look at TurkPrime labs which offers this as a service to non-US based researchers.
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