Some people make way to meny cards for different ages like for birthdays and meny like finding a card with the age related number for that person. Yes, even I hate 150 cards from age 1 -150 and takes a lot of pages with the same image for each card. Boring for me, great for others. But that's what makes a sell for some of those cards. Me? I try one to 3 cards that way. Just think of all those with thousands of cards and over 60 % of them are the same card with different numbers on them or different sayings on them. I understand your pain . Mine is not to question why on this issue, it just is . I too have to grin and bear it.   Others will chew us out for that one, lol .

Hello,
 
Sorry, for replying late on this. Everybody is misunderstanding me so I am going to try this again I don't have a problem with people doing up all those cards with the names BUT what i am saying is when you go into cards---- newest cards. Is there anyway of putting one or two instead of 50 thousand of the same card. The cards can still be in their profile BUT not on that window of newest cards.
Because I know that I give up after so many pages and I really don't feel it is fair (maybe that is not the right word) but for all the other people putting up new cards if they end up at the very end because the first guy had 50 thousand cards up on the first page and going all the way up to page 7. WHY CAN IT NOT BE 1 OR 2 OF THE SAME CARDS?.  
IT REALLY WOULD save alot of time.  
Hope this makes sense.
mia

I hate to say this and I don't want to offend anyone, and I don't know a solution!  I hate this in the stores too.  Example.  I went to an artist store, there was a card of theirs I just had to have,  I couldn't think of the title, I couldn't figure out how it would be keyworded.  So I started on page I--------I found it on page 27 I think.  But in between were all these same images.  I really wanted that card, but I can imagine a customer with no set goal saying 'I don't need this *#)*%@*^$ and leaving.  Just my opinion.  And I know why it's necessary-----the searches which accounts for most of the sales.

Kathy, I got to thinking about it.  This maybe a solution???  for example you have a design for age specific or relation specific. I'll use relation:  in the front of your store have no more than three of the image but in the artist notes tell the customer all these captions are available, Grandmother, Mother, daughter, etc. and give page numbers. Have all the others on the back pages as a group, and from the page numbers in the artist notes the customer can go directly to them.  This might work without losing a sale, what do you think?

Quote from Norval_132688 on Mar 7^th, 2009, 11:41am:

 
 
Which necessitates you ensure the cards always show up on those pages, no matter how many new cards you upload. Um, for large loaders, that would be a huge chore.
 
Easier is just to use the keywords.
 
Lets use your valentine card as an example Norval - the nice one with the hearts...you did a few of those for different people right?
 
So, first thing you do is name the card design (whatever, but something easy like NORVALRedhearts1)
 
Then you use that keyword in all of the cards with that design as the background.
 
In your artist notes, you create a search link using only that one keyword, along with text saying something like "This card design is available for" and then use the people (though it would much easier to use "every family member as well as friends".
 
Another example - this is the keyword search for "bride" in my store:
 
http://www.greetingcarduniverse.com/community/store.asp?keyword=bride&store_ id=2183
 
using that, you'd replace "bride" with NORVALRedheart1 and the store id with your own.
 
Then it doesn't matter where each card ends up in the store.
 
THAT, of course, necessitates GCU allowing us to specify search keywords for ourselves. Seems a simple thing, but they may not agree to it.
 
The other option is just to tell them to use the keyword search links already available at the side of your store, which means they get every card for grandmother, not just those valentine cards.
 
Myself, I'd much rather see "folders" or "sets" or something similar to featured for each category we want to create within our own shops. It would be a lot easier for a visitor to find what they need.

The folder idea has been brought up several times before in the past.  The ideas about organizing our own stores had been put on the back burner as it was suggested that customers don't shop through stores as much as they do overall site searches or Google/MSN/Yahoo, etc.  I don't know.
 
But, being able to organize our own stores into folders of the ARTIST's choosing would certainly alleviate some of the frustration felt by "category and profile" sufferers.