<div dir="ltr">Hello Everyone,<div>Amazon Mechanical Turk  (AMT) is <span style="color:rgb(61,60,64);font-family:'Emoji Passthrough',Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;line-height:22px"> is about to get a LOT more expensive! 40% commission on surveys. </span>If you have any AMT work in the back burner I recommend getting it out NOW before the rates increase (July 21)</div><div><br></div><div>Here is the full message from Amazon:</div><div><br></div><div><div id="msg_1435018968_001663" class="" style="border-top-width:1px;border-top-style:solid;border-top-color:transparent;word-wrap:break-word;clear:both;padding:0px 2rem 0.1rem 3rem;font-family:'Emoji Passthrough',Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;line-height:22px;color:rgb(61,60,64);margin-top:0.5rem"><span class="" style="display:block;min-height:1rem">Hello Mechanical Turk Requester,<span class="" style="display:block;height:0.5rem"><i class="" style="display:inline-block;vertical-align:baseline;height:0px;float:left;background-repeat:no-repeat"><br></i></span>We’re writing to follow-up on our post “Bringing Future Innovation to Mechanical Turk” published May 21st to the Mechanical Turk blog (<a href="http://mechanicalturk.typepad.com/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(42,128,185);text-decoration:none">http://mechanicalturk.typepad.com/</a>). 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:<span class="" style="display:block;height:0.5rem"><i class="" style="display:inline-block;vertical-align:baseline;height:0px;float:left;background-repeat:no-repeat"><br></i></span>•       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.<br>•       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.<br>•       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."<div class="" style="border-radius:0.25rem;margin-left:0px"><div class="" style="padding:0.2rem 0.75rem 0.75rem 0px;margin-top:0px"><div class="" style="display:table-cell;width:4px;border-radius:8px;background:rgb(227,228,230)"><div class="" style="width:4px"></div></div><div class="" style="display:table-cell;padding:0px 0px 0px 12px;width:530px;max-width:566px"><div><span class="" style="color:rgb(158,158,166)"></span></div><div class="">The official blog of Amazon Mechanical Turk - Find tips & tricks, best practices, product announcements and events about Mechanical Turk.</div></div></div></div></span></div><div id="msg_1435018976_001665" class="" style="border-top-width:1px;border-top-style:solid;border-top-color:transparent;word-wrap:break-word;clear:both;padding:0.25rem 2rem 0.1rem 3rem;font-family:'Emoji Passthrough',Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;line-height:22px;color:rgb(61,60,64)"><span class="" style="padding:0px 0.25rem"><span class="" style="color:rgb(186,187,191)"></span></span><i class="" style="display:inline-block;vertical-align:baseline;height:0px;float:left;background-repeat:no-repeat"><br></i><i class="" style="display:inline-block;vertical-align:baseline;height:0px;float:left;background-repeat:no-repeat"><a href="https://crowdresearch.slack.com/team/michaelbernstein" target="/team/michaelbernstein" class="" style="color:rgb(75,190,46);text-decoration:none;word-break:break-word;font-weight:900;padding-right:0.25rem;margin-left:0px;font-style:normal">michaelbernstein</a><i class="" style="display:inline-block;vertical-align:baseline;height:0px;float:left;background-repeat:no-repeat"></i></i><i class="" style="display:inline-block;vertical-align:baseline;height:0px;float:left;background-repeat:no-repeat">[5:22 PM]</i><span class="" style="display:block;min-height:1rem"><br></span></div><div id="msg_1435018987_001666" class="" style="border-top-width:1px;border-top-style:solid;border-top-color:transparent;word-wrap:break-word;clear:both;padding:0.25rem 2rem 0.1rem 3rem;font-family:'Emoji Passthrough',Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;line-height:22px;color:rgb(61,60,64)"><span class="" style="padding:0px 0.25rem"><span class="" style="color:rgb(186,187,191)"></span></span><i class="" style="display:inline-block;vertical-align:baseline;height:0px;float:left;background-repeat:no-repeat"><br></i><i class="" style="display:inline-block;vertical-align:baseline;height:0px;float:left;background-repeat:no-repeat"><a href="https://crowdresearch.slack.com/team/michaelbernstein" target="/team/michaelbernstein" class="" style="color:rgb(75,190,46);text-decoration:none;word-break:break-word;font-weight:900;padding-right:0.25rem;margin-left:0px;font-style:normal">michaelbernstein</a><i class="" style="display:inline-block;vertical-align:baseline;height:0px;float:left;background-repeat:no-repeat"></i></i><i class="" style="display:inline-block;vertical-align:baseline;height:0px;float:left;background-repeat:no-repeat">[5:23 PM]</i><span class="" style="display:block;min-height:1rem"><br></span></div></div><div><br></div><div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">Saiph Savage<br><br><br></div>
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