Lisa where did you see this, I totaly agree with you if this is the case, but I have not seen this featur, please let me know where it is and I´ll take a look at my store.

Thank you for agreeing.
 
Go to your store front and under each card is several symbols, at far right is one that is a dollar sign.
Click on it and it offers 2 link options and says :
 
Copy and paste this code below to your website or blog to link to this card on GCU. You will earn 50 cents for each card sold through this link
 
I just went to several ppls sites and it shows up on them all!

Just read thru that and ppl said:
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  Re: New Feature: "Sell This Card"
Reply #10 - Jan 22nd, 2010, 3:18pm  Quote   Quote from mishka_131282 on Jan 22nd, 2010, 1:36pm:
Does this mean that it will be possible to create a mini store on an external website of your favorite cards by other artists and make money from the sales of their cards (of course in addition to your own)?  
-Mishka  
 
Yes, it does make it much easier to post cards on blogs, lenses, your personal sites, etc.  The artist gets commission if their cards sell and you would receive commission for driving that customer to our site.    
 
This also helps us pick up links pointing to GCU, which can help increase our visibility with search engine crawlers.
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Shaun admin said:
Both methods will incorporate your card seller ID so you will receive the card seller commission of 50 cents per card for any sales made through these links, helping you earn more from the traffic that you send us, even if the customer does not purchase your cards.    
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Miles Admin said:
The seller commission works for any and all cards that the customer purchases on the initial order, with a maximum commission of $25 per order.    
 
For example, if the customer finds your blog and clicks on an image of a card they like, they will get directed to that card on GCU.  Say they add that card, quantity of 1 to the cart, and then find 9 other cards they also add to the cart, and then check out.  You will earn $.50 for each card the customer purchased on that order, for a total of $5.00 for simply referring the customer.  If they were all your cards that were purchased, then you earn both the card seller's commission $5.00 as well as the artist's commission $5.60, for a total of $10.60 for that order!  (assuming there were no discounts or promo codes involved in the order)  
 
 
I like to call this above scenario 'double dipping' and unlike with chips & dip... we not only encourage double dipping, but we celebrate it!  
 
 
So they make money off us, and they can make up a whole store of other ppls cards and profit off us!
 
NO WAY!

Um... just to let you know, this is how GCU has operated from at least almost two years ago when I joined. They have always had an option for people to put a GCU widget on what ever blog site or facebook or whatever site to sell GCU cards and make commission...even if they did not have a store here. It's a way that GCU can advertise cards to a far bigger audience. They just now have where you can put one card at a time on a blog. You are still getting the exact same commission, it's Greeting Card Universe that is losing the money.

O.k., you are right about having to have a store with GCU, but you can chose the option of including other arists cards in your widgit. It's right there when you click "Random" on your widget choice. I know this is correct because I have sold other people's cards from my widget before... and I'm sure other artists have as well. Look at it this way: Let's say you have a blog about pet care. You chose some cute pet cards to post by other artists, including one of my kitty cards. You have over 1000 hits to your blog per day. You have 1000 customers extra to see my card per day then I would have had. Your blog sells 50 of my cat cards. You make 25.00, I make 28.00. I'm thrilled with the extra publicity, and the extra sales! I'm not losing any money, and people will know it's my card because when they click on it, it has my name and store information.

Angela is correct.  Anyone who wishes to sign up as a Card Seller creates a widget with whatever cards or specific store they choose.  Though they become a member of GCU, they do not have to create a store just to sell cards.  
 
This really is no different than Zazzle or any other affiliate program, in fact for the artists it's better because you are not having the affiliate percentage taken from your commission as is the case in many programs, including Zazzle.  With this GCU feature, you can put specific cards of your own on blogs, websites and such and get $1.06 per card for that new customer order rather than just .56 cents.
 
This type of program drives tremendous traffic and sales which benefit everyone, thus the reason you'll be hard-pressed to find an online place like GCU or Zazzle that doesn't have this type of program...its what works.   50% of my sales at Zazzle are referrals and if someone hadn't liked my product enough to add it to their Squidoo Lens or Blog, then those are all sales I wouldn't have made.  
 
I agree that if GCU can offer an opt-out for the few artists that don't wish to participate that would be a good thing.  

Ok.OK - I found it. Can I shut this off???
Steve