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Tracie_152843

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Love & Romance - Just A Thought
Jul 28^th, 2011, 10:09am

I noticed very few cards for family (ie: for father, for daughter) have been created for the Love & Romance category. Maybe it's just me, but I think the reason why is because customers might be turned off from searching for love for family cards in 'Love & Romance'...

I don't know how the two would be separated exactly, but maybe have one category for love and another for romance...or have the main category be "Love" and have sub-categories one for romance, the other for family...just a thought...

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Terry_151326 Senior Member artist Posts: 307	Re: Love & Romance - Just A Thought Reply #1 - Jul 28^th, 2011, 10:18am I agree! I had that problem with my "sister" cards, I wanted to use the "Love" category without the romance also. Terry
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Tracie_152843 Gold Member artist Posts: 573	Re: Love & Romance - Just A Thought Reply #2 - Jul 28^th, 2011, 11:11am Glad I'm not the only one. I also noticed that although there is a sister category, there is no brother/niece/nephew etc.
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Marie_134287 Senior Member artist Posts: 266	Re: Love & Romance - Just A Thought Reply #3 - Jul 29^th, 2011, 9:25pm I agree these should be two separate categories. Someone looking for romance will only be interested in romance, not other kinds of love. It looks confusing to me. I bet others think the same when they see these two bunched together.
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Re: Love & Romance - Just A Thought
Reply #4 - Mar 27^th, 2012, 1:13pm

Love / Romance subcategory is for cards that are not relationship specific but Love and/or Romance in sentiment in General.

For example a Birthday Card for Daughter, ONLY goes in:
Birthday >> For Family Relation Specific >> Daughter

If the same card (for Daughter) has a sentiment of love it CANNOT also go in:
Birthday >> Love / Romance

That is why there are no relationship specific cards found in the >> Love / Romance subcategories.

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Re: Love & Romance - Just A Thought
Reply #5 - Mar 27^th, 2012, 1:54pm

Quote from Mindy on Mar 27^th, 2012, 1:13pm:

Love / Romance subcategory is for cards that are not relationship specific but Love and/or Romance in sentiment in General.

For example a Birthday Card for Daughter, ONLY goes in:
Birthday >> For Family Relation Specific >> Daughter

If the same card (for Daughter) has a sentiment of love it CANNOT also go in:
Birthday >> Love / Romance

That is why there are no relationship specific cards found in the >> Love / Romance subcategories.

Hi Mindy, thank you for responding. I'm not sure if we are talking about the same category or not. The Love & Romance section I am talking about is found under:

"Occasions > Love & Romance Cards > For Sister" When a customer sees this lineup they may get the wrong impression...When I first discovered it while browsing GCU as a customer, I was afraid to open up this category because I thought they were going to be incest cards.... Shocked

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Re: Love & Romance - Just A Thought
Reply #6 - Mar 28^th, 2012, 11:10am

Quote from Tracie_152843 on Mar 27^th, 2012, 1:54pm:

Quote from Mindy on Mar 27^th, 2012, 1:13pm:

Love / Romance subcategory is for cards that are not relationship specific but Love and/or Romance in sentiment in General.

For example a Birthday Card for Daughter, ONLY goes in:
Birthday >> For Family Relation Specific >> Daughter

If the same card (for Daughter) has a sentiment of love it CANNOT also go in:
Birthday >> Love / Romance

That is why there are no relationship specific cards found in the >> Love / Romance subcategories.

Hi Mindy, thank you for responding. I'm not sure if we are talking about the same category or not. The Love & Romance section I am talking about is found under:

"Occasions > Love & Romance Cards > For Sister" When a customer sees this lineup they may get the wrong impression...When I first discovered it while browsing GCU as a customer, I was afraid to open up this category because I thought they were going to be incest cards.... Shocked

Got it. Yes I can see where this can be misconstrued. However splitting up Love and Romance will prove to make for some challenging hair splitting when assessing where a card goes and where to look for cards. Is it Love? Is it Romance? Is it both?

Going out on a limb I'll say that romance is an expression of love but love is not always romantic so they're not clearly separate. Creating two separate categories I think will only add to the confusion.

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