I have had some new cards approved over the last few days.  When I visit the New Cards link on the homepage I am barraged by 15 of what appears to be the same card.  Page two- almost the same.  Page 6, 16 of the same image.  Page 7, 12 of the same and 8 of another.  Page 9, 17 images the same.  Page 10, 12 images the same.  Page 12, 13 images the same.  Page 14, 21 images the same and on and on.
 
My concern is that if a customer goes to the New Cards link on the homepage and is assaulted by, seemingly, the very same images they will leave thinking there is no use to look farther if there are so many cards with mostly the same image.
 
Is it possible to limit cards with the same image, and only wording changes, for the sake of keeping customers interested in staying on the site?

Too bad.... I know of some of my friends that have been put off by that feature and just 'tuned out.'    I, myself, won't dally on a page with the same image.

Quote from stacy_136134 on Nov 13^th, 2009, 7:20am:

 
I agree, it is not the artist, it is the system.  I believe that there is room for diversity.  However, what is seen is the same.  The first impression is the most important.  If I get the impression that the site is not good why do I come back?
 
The sys needs changing.  As for whether it is not high on the priority list?  It is a mistake to think it is not.

It's too bad that the new cards category is frustrating, because it's a category that people (or me, at least) are naturally drawn to.

There has been some discussion on what to do here to prevent the same designs from showing up multiple times.  I'll check with the folks over here to see what we plan to do here.

Since the ability to "customize" is readily available and advertised now, why can't there just be one card put up and noted that it can be customized with ANY name, relation etc. ??  It would certainly save time on the part of artists as well as the reviewers with the same result and happier shoppers.
 
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One thought.
 
Seeing that the New Cards link is one of the first a shopper will see and very likely will be the first one they click on, the page they go to is vitally important to the impression GCU makes to them.  It should be spectacular!
 
Perhaps the reason it is only lightly visited now is because return shoppers already know what is there, a fairly unappealing stream of serially approved cards that are difficult to browse.

Quote from Corrie_131338 on Nov 14^th, 2009, 1:06am:

 
Greetings!
You're right, Corrie, Mindy has stated this.  And there seems to be many customers who find cards based on internet searches, as well, so they probably never see the New Card page.
 
On a personal note, and this is not meant to offend anyone. but, I really think that, we, as artist, see the site much differently than the average customer.  We are always looking at what's going on, how things are presented, how our cards are presented and in relation to the other cards on the site.  Most customers use the internet as a way of buying things conveniently, I seriously doubt that they spend much time looking for, or at, things that they didn't come to see.  For example, if I came to buy a birthday card for my friend, I would probably click on the birthday link, because I would feel pretty confident that I'd find a card there.  I wouldn't go to the New Cards right at the start, so I'd never know that there are 75 similar cards in a row.
 
GCU has been very honest with us as artist in giving us feedback from customers, like the Back of Card issue that was discussed and resolved.  I honestly believe that if the customers were complaining about the New Card page, then we would hear about it and something would be done to make this page more appealing to the people who pay the bills!  (That's our customers.)
 
My 2-cents!
 
Penny