[4eyes] Amazon Mechanical Turk about to get a LOT more expensive!

[Saiph Savage]

Hello Everyone,
Amazon Mechanical Turk  (AMT) is  is about to get a LOT more expensive! 40%
commission on surveys. If you have any AMT work in the back burner I
recommend getting it out NOW before the rates increase (July 21)

Here is the full message from Amazon:

Hello Mechanical Turk Requester,
We’re writing to follow-up on our post “Bringing Future Innovation to
Mechanical Turk” published May 21st to the Mechanical Turk blog (
http://mechanicalturk.typepad.com/). In the post, we indicated that we were
analyzing changes to our commission structure, including changing our base
commission to somewhere between 20% and 35%. We have settled on changing
our base commission to 20% and modifying other elements of our pricing.
These changes take effect at midnight on July 21st, 2015. We are
introducing the following updates:
•       Amazon Mechanical Turk’s base commission will be 20% with a $0.01
minimum per transaction. This commission applies to HIT reward amounts and
any bonuses paid to Workers.
•       HITs requiring 10 or more assignments will incur an additional 20%
commission above the base commission. These HITs comprise less than 0.3% of
Mechanical Turk’s overall HITs, and are most commonly used by Requesters to
survey Workers and conduct market research.
•       The incremental commission for using Masters Workers will decrease
to 5%, making it even easier for Requesters to access the marketplace’s
highest-rated Workers."
The official blog of Amazon Mechanical Turk - Find tips & tricks, best
practices, product announcements and events about Mechanical Turk.

*michaelbernstein
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Saiph Savage
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