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I started shopping a few years ago. I rarely do them anymore. Rates are so low it is hardly worth my taking the time to take the elevator downstairs.

It shouldn't surprise anyone that I can get 100 emails a day from MSCs, frequently 10 copies from the same company. Most shoppers don't realize how much time they spend applying for shops, taking certifications, waiting for a response, traveling, doing the shop, writing it up and following up on payments. I have timed myself, and outside of doing and writing shops up, one has to put in about two hours time additionally. So I look at most jobs to see if the pay is worth about three hours of my day.
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I'm trying to turn off the flood of email for $6 jobs.

1) Anyone found a way to filter out low paying jobs and repeats?
2) Any agencies that do a lot of Seattle work?
3_Any agencies that offer rates worth 2-3 hours time?
4) Can anyone tell me which msc might have medicare advantage plan shopping in seattle?

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I set up filters in my email program. It's not perfect, but it helps some. I usually set the filters to look for certain keywords in the titles, and then send those emails to a new folder called "Filtered" or somesuch. I search for key words such as "airport security or "phone shops" and send them to the filtered folder. If a particular scheduler or MSC is flooding my inbox about TGIFridays, for example, I'll send anything with TGIFridays to the filtered foder. I may also set an exception, and only filters titles with TGIFridays that also do not include the word "bonus."

The second, important part, is to periodically check the filtered folder to see if I accidentally filtered important emails, and then tweak my filters accordingly. I know this sounds like I am defeating the purpose, but it is easier to deal with the filtered emails all at once rather than as they come in.

Having said all this, I kind of have given up the battle, and now filter only the most egregrious examples. I believe schedulers have gotten a little better over the years in avoiding this behaviour. Plus, I guess a lot of MSCs have gone away, or I have been deactivated by some of those I initially signed up for because of lack of activity on my part.
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The SASSIE platform allows me to sort the shops according to job fee.

AZ, thanks for pointing that out! All these years I never thought about doing that. Maybe I knew long ago and just never used it but you just made searching somewhat easier. Awesome!

I could filter out the ones that send dozens of emails each day, but there is still so much more. The MSCs have not adapted technology that was present in the 1980s. I'm amazed they trying to use quills to write email.

Any thoughts as to the other questions?

What bothers me more is the schedulers that send three or four seemingly same e-mails but with different cities listed.

That and the one who refuses to alphabetize the states.

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What bothers me more is the schedulers . . . who refuses to alphabetize the states.

Just view those emails in your browser (or Word) and use the Ctrl+f function to find all the shops in your desired state.

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