I had many negative experiences at Amazon Mechanical Turk. When I emailed them, it took eons for them to reply about my concern.They accept workers outside the US but all you can do is transfer your earnings to an Amazon gift certificate. They do have an option to use a US bank account but how can we do that? It would be hard to ask someone or a relative even to have their bank account used with driver's license, and TIN or SSS number.

I think working there further defeats my purpose since I want to get the money I earned and not shop at their site. Why can they provide payments for India and not to other countries? I think this is unfair for there are many workers around the world that works on their site not only India. They are claiming that they provide access to a global, on-demand, 24 x 7 workforce but there is no effort on their part to improve their payment options for these "global workforce".

And if they suspend an account there is no due review done and what will happen to the money earned by this suspended account? It will obviously go to them for a suspended worker can no longer access their site. I know this for a fact since a friend of mine shared this experience with me. I worked there but I have decided to stop. I think I'll just shop the money I earned because there is no way of getting my hands on them.

I think Amazon Mechanical Turk needs a lot of overhauling to do if they don't want to have US and Indian workers only. They need to address this problem of payment options.

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