The Key to getting accepted on mTurk (Amazon Mechanical Turk)

Thought I would share some useful advice, these times are wild. Sometime back in 2018 I was in a pretty bad place, someone on a specific sub pointed me towards mturk (Amazon Mechanical Turk.) I immediately signed up, and got the rejection email sometime within a day after signing up. Sort of just gave up on it for a few months, did research on getting accepted but kept coming up empty. Went and grinded on some other platforms, wasn't quite satisfied with my results (though better than nothing!) So I thought to myself there's likely an algorithm that decides if you get a worker account, based off certain criteria ..

I personally never used Amazon for much of anything at that point, the account I signed up with had zero order history etc. So I re-approached the situation. I made another fresh Amazon account, signed up for Amazon Prime and about a day later signed up for a mturk worker account. Got the acceptance email in less than a day. At this point, you gotta set up your Amazon Payments account. In my case, I didn't have a utility bill that was in my name, so I used a recent bank statement. Had to explain the situation via email with my documents attached. It was back and forth emailing for about a day before my account finally got set up. I believe most people who get stuck on this step have never filed taxes before. Once you get through that you're in the clear, though these days the platform is certainly a desert. As I saw written elsewhere, it's either feast or famine. I haven't had worthwhile earnings since this past January, and again in March.

Anyways that's how I managed to get my worker account. I figure a good majority of people who learn of mturk just try signing up with fresh accounts. Sign up for Prime first! Hope this helps!!

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