Misty 2.0 Remote Data Collection

Overview

This is a remote data collection project for participants who can contribute authentic e-commerce order communications from their own purchases. The work focuses on real email and native mobile messages that document a physical product order from confirmation through a final status such as delivered, picked up, cancelled, refunded, or returned.

Contributions are reviewed for privacy, originality, and quality. Only authentic communications from official merchants and delivery companies are accepted.

What You’ll Do

• Find genuine order-related emails and text messages from your own online purchases.
• Submit complete order histories with at least three related communications for the same purchase.
• Provide communications that begin with an order confirmation and continue through shipping, delivery, cancellation, refund, return, or another final order status.
• Upload original email files in .eml format and submit eligible native SMS, RCS, or iMessage messages where applicable.
• Follow the project’s privacy, consent, and submission instructions carefully.

Requirements

• Currently residing in one of the eligible countries listed for the project.
• Access to authentic e-commerce order communications from your own purchases.
• Ability to contribute communications in the required language for your assigned locale.
• Access to a computer and an email account that allows downloading original emails in .eml format.
• Access to a mobile device containing eligible native SMS, RCS, or iMessage communications, where applicable.
• Ability to identify at least three related communications from the same physical product purchase.
• Willingness to contribute only your own communications and follow the submission guidelines.
• Must be 18 or older.

Important Information

• Only authentic, original communications from official online merchants and delivery companies are accepted.
• Messages from WhatsApp, WeChat, Telegram, and other third-party messaging apps are not accepted.
• Submissions must relate to physical products only.
• Digital subscriptions, travel bookings, restaurant reservations, food delivery, and other virtual products or services are not eligible.
• Personal names and personal email addresses must be redacted according to the project instructions.
• Screenshots, forwarded messages, manually created, modified, fabricated, or duplicate communications are not accepted.
• Merchant, carrier, event-type, and submission limits may vary depending on project requirements and locale.
• Payment is only for contributions that pass quality review.

Compensation

Compensation is based on contribution type and approval status. The source does not provide a fixed payout amount; it notes separate email and SMS contribution rates and possible contribution limits.