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Ask HN: request HITs on mturk.com from outside the US?
I live in Canada and am intrigued by Amazon's Mechanical Turk service. I actually want to do some market research, but am a bit stumped as to why only US residents are officially permitted to sign up and use the service (from a requester's point of view).
I don't particularly advocate this sort of thing, but is there any reason why non-US residents can't just put in a fake US address and proceed to get the results they need? Has anyone living outside the US successfully used mturk.com directly rather than one of the 3rd-party wrapper services?
This has been asked on HN once before (that I'm aware of) but with no responses - see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=624053.
- byoung2 16y agois there any reason why non-US residents can't just put in a fake US address and proceed to get the results they need? I believe you need a US billing address to pay for Mechanical Turk, so a fake address won't work. I'm not sure why this is the case, since you can pay for other Amazon products from outside the US.
- pirot 16y agohttp://behind-the-enemy-lines.blogspot.com/2010/02/why-mechanical-turk-allows-only-us.html http://behind-the-enemy-lines.blogspot.com/2010/02/why-mecha...