Comments on: Mechanical Turd

By: Eric Cranston

Eric Cranston — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 21:02:03 +0000

Haha…Jeff replied. Yes it is an inconvience to have to hook it up to a bank account….but paypal is problematic. Plus a semi-competetor to Amazon (ebay sells stuff…they sell stuff)

Plus everyone mostly agrees…that Paypal sucks. And as well adds in charges on transfers…which would complicate things for Amazon.

Credit card support is needed though…I thought it was there….I use a debit card for s3…and all my mturk HITs so far have been funded from turking funds.

By: Crowdsource » Blog Archive » Mechanical Turd

Crowdsource » Blog Archive » Mechanical Turd — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 20:42:58 +0000

[...] Chris Pirillo tried to create some HIT’s on Mechanical Turk and wasn’t too impressed: I donâ€™t really wanna poop on Amazonâ€™s Mechanical Turk (MTurk) program, but I have a huge problem with it: you canâ€™t sign up to deploy the service unless you give them your bank account information first! Are we living in 1990 or something? Have they ever heard of PayPal – or a credit card, at least? [...]

By: Jeff Barr

Jeff Barr — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 00:22:14 +0000

Hey Chris,

This is great feedback. We are definitely listening, and I’ve passed this along to the Mechanical Turk team for consideration.

Thanks!

– Jeff;