I also agree on how annoying and totally non interesting it is to see page after page of the same design with only a name or age change etc.  I also understand and appreciate that there seems to be a niche for such an offering..  I think many people (like myself and it sounds like most of you) will simply stop looking through and move away from those endless pages as fast as possible..     It is not an artist issue imho since they are filling a niche for the consumer but I would think there must be a better way to display them to the public. Although I am not sure how easy or possible this is to do for the GCU programmers.   Perhaps the "New" cards area would receive more traffic and become a selling asset to all involved if this did not happen this way.  You click at it a few times and then stop ever looking again just because of that issue.  I wish it was not like that for I would prefer to view "New" cards in variety quickly and easy right though that particular link.  It should move and look replenished at all times imho to keep interest for the potential buyers.  Busy world with busy lives..      
 
Personally..   I do not think at all that the artist must be uncreative or lame in some way for filling a niche that the site does allow and seems to want. They are doing what they find works for their sales perhaps.  It would be interesting to see the stats on this topic from GCU.  Do they sell a lot of "Name"  "Age" etc cards that come form a set this way or are they only a small percentage?   Bet if they were to say they sold a lot of them..  More of us would be doing them.. lol..   if not though.. maybe the creative minds here in management here will give this dilemma some thought..    
 
That is one of the big pluses of "Z"  the viewer-consumer can type what ever they want on it which so far around 60% of my sales there have chosen to customize the design before they bought and I think it made for a good experience for them too.      
 
Just my 2 cents worth as a viewer long before I opened a store here and since I have.  

Doreen, I totally agree as well...  
Lj, about a year and a half ago, I uploaded a bunch of the same card with different names and spent a LOT of time working on it. I decided I wouldn't do that again!  For one thing, I didn't like the way it made my shop look; but, most importantly, the amount of time I spent on creating/uploading those cards was not equal to the sales I have gotten on them. In the past year and a half, I have only sold a handful of them. In my opinion, it was a waste of my time.

Robin... >>>  Good to test the waters indeed~    
 
I use the same image for up to a certain amount of times for diff categories but stop there because I too do not like the way it looks in the store..   Thanks for the info on that!  

Doreen as always you were direct and on the money   your post was clearly addressing the system which IS the problem and not the artists.
 
I just felt the frustration was shifting to the artists who invested hours and hours of work fulfilling this niche for GCU, implying they were somehow substandard in their effort and creativity.  
I felt that was unfair and really only adding confusion to the issue that you were addressing.
Pamela

hello Penny,
please do not take offence with my post...I too have multiple cards of the same image with a different "relationship" on the card.  The point I am trying to get across is, why not have some sort of censor on GCU that could notice/recognize multiples, and only post one of them????????
L+L,
L

OH YEA!!!!!
 
I SO AGREE!!!!!!!   A few seconds to add that name or make a change, even upon a request, verses ALL THOSE darn PAGES OF THE SAME THING!!!!!!!!!!!!
I will fall out of my chair with sheer joy the day GCU says NO MORE TO MULTIPLES OF THAT MANNER!!!!!
 
IMAGINE WHAT CUSTOMERS MUST THINK!!!!!

Linda has a fabulous idea, simple put that the card can be personalized with any name, verse or statement the customer wants.  
 
I'm not against multiple cards (with a limit) I have some that are one design but various statements but stop at 10 for each design. It's great for a potential customer to see someones store with thousands of cards but not if the potential customer is looking at the same design over and over again in the store or trying look through a category (Maybe not liking the design with a hundred various names) and taking forever to get to a new design.. could push them out of GCU and to another site and we all lose as a whole then!?
 
Therer has to be some way to meet in the middle on this!?

Excellent points Delores and actually I have no problem with relationship specific (have some of those myself) and age-specific...both have limits.  My problem is with the name cards because there really is no limit to these, there are thousands and thousands of names.  
 
I think that GCU has offered something that is desired by the public and a great thing...I just don't think this is the place to display them unless they can figure out a way to limit the visibility of all the name cards in searches.  
 
Just wanted to clarify...I am not speaking to relationship specific at all.  I'm really ONLY referencing the name cards.  I do think it is a similar, though not quite so irritating issue with the birthday age cards, but again the max is 100 NOT 1120!