Nothing good about this program unless you live in countries where 1 or 3 American cents, or 1 dollar, if you are lucky, are a considerable amount of money in you local currency.
Amazon has opened a platform and made possible slavery salaries to be paid for tasks. Right, some of them are easy, but some of them take a lot of time, and paying 1 cent, or 3 or 5 in a developed country for something that requires more than five minutes is ILLEGAL. This would not be legal in the EU ever.
They have basically made possible for people who you want to work for them for almost nothing, to do so, so they pay you a misery, take your time, and can take up to 30 days to pay you. If you are lucky. Amazon just provide the house, so to speak, but get out of it and doesn't want to be that much either.
You won't be able to make considerable money unless you sleep on your computer and keep doing gazillion cent tests/tasks/surveys.
They ask you for your tax details and personal details even though they don't provide you with a contract or with any sort of decent anything.
How is that legal?
I love Amazon, the shop, but this 'work' rather slavery platform shouldn't exist.
They were previously called Zurb.
This is a legit company, it is just that, while they wait for you to receive a test, if any, they will profile very accurately, with your help. Genius!
Easy to join. Very fun and likeable website, with that lovely cow walking while you reply to the site queres.
They start profiling you, hard core, from the beginning, in ways that I don't think I would like to be profiled or I am comfortable with.
Of course, they might come and say, it is all voluntarily, you do it because you want (no, I need money, mind you, that's why I am here). Supposedly, they are getting your info to provide you with the right test or survey. Questions are very specific about you and your finances.
I suspect that they are data collectors, a la Google, just done in a more fun way and having you replying directly to the questions, no machine involved. I know for sure that they don't need of all that info for you to take a test. Their privacy policy also seems legit, but if you read between the lines, you will see that very personal information is collected through the tests themselves, and also that they can share your data, just removing your name and personal details. It smells fishy. My impression.
They might provide legit work, but that sort of profiling shouldn't be allowed or legal! So, needless to say, I left soon after joining. I might be totally mistaken, for sure, but the questions about my bank account are too precise to be random or innocent.
Avoid.
I love the site, really easy to browse, and what you have to do is really easy and enjoyable, if you like music. Some new bands are really great to discover and listen to, and that's the good bit.
The problem is that being paid 0.01 to 0.05 for review is just unacceptable. Right, you don't have to do it, nobody forces you, but if you are there is because you really need cash now.
They don't have enough tracks to keep you reviewing all the time, either (don't believe what they say).
If they paid at least 10 cents per review, that would be something. To get to those insignificant 10 bucks you probably have to review hundreds of tracks, most of them of music you would never choose to listen to voluntarily, so you have a hard time reviewing them and coming up with something long and creative. You just want to say, I hate it, next.
They, the site and their people, do the following: if their automated system detects a decrease in quality of your reviews (that could be a pathetic singer who has no talent rebutting my review on their horrendous singing, probably), they immediately reduce the payment; the contrary is also true, but it is more the decrease what you get than your increase because, I repeat, you must listen to whatever they have up, therefore, you could be listening to the genre you hate the most or songs or singers that are horrendous. They blame the algorithm, but they chose the algorithm, not the other way around. An algorithm has no brain.
Another trick, you cannot withdraw any money until you reach 10, but that takes ages to achieve, hundreds of reviews. My informed guess is that many people get bored after reviewing for a while, and leave after having produced 50+ reviews, no payment for their work, and the site has another bunch of free reviews.
According to the site people, they upload songs all the time. I don't know if it is intentional, but my area was barren for days, not even a song, zeo, nihil, so you don't have anything to listen to, to review or money to earn.
Reviewers barely benefit from being on Slicethepie. They simply don't benefit. The slice goes to the site owners.
I would be interested in knowing how much the upcoming artists pay for review and whether they would be comfortable knowing that their reviewers are people being forced to listen to their tracks even if they don't like it, and knowing that they are paid a misery to do that, or their reviews are rejected for repeating words. Yes, what you expect if I don't like your song? I will be polite and say generics because I am not allowed to move onto another track or sincerely honestly say, I hate this song, it's a very bad song and singing, or it's amateurish.
You start at 0.01 and get up, but really, 0.05 or 0.10 is still ridiculous for 10 minutes of your time, or more.
You won't earn any money on this, and will waste a time that you could use, say, picking your nose.That's overall better for your health and more entertaining.
Avoid. Totally avoid. They're short for scammers.
