GCU Forum - I Guess it Doesn't Matter

Angela_134247

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I Guess it Doesn't Matter
Mar 24^th, 2018, 6:43pm

I guess it doesn't matter that I've made thousands of dollars for this site. In the last month I've had over half of my 2000+ cards declined, many of them great sellers with professional images. This is VERY frustrating. I understand the ones returned for grammatical errors, and yes, I can understand some of the ones with older-style photo frames, etc, but wow.

I am very saddened by this. So goes a six-year partnership.

ETA: Yes, many of the cards I've sold HUNDREDS of over the years, and some are still best-sellers. This makes no sense whatsoever.

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Re: I Guess it Doesn't Matter
Reply #1 - Mar 26^th, 2018, 8:07am

Angela,

GCU encourages artists who feel that a card shouldn't be declined to contact us at cardreview@greetingcarduniverse.com with the PID. Please also see http://www.greetingcarduniverse.com/forum/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1421879451

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Quote from Angela_134247 on Mar 24^th, 2018, 6:43pm:

I guess it doesn't matter that I've made thousands of dollars for this site. In the last month I've had over half of my 2000+ cards declined, many of them great sellers with professional images. This is VERY frustrating. I understand the ones returned for grammatical errors, and yes, I can understand some of the ones with older-style photo frames, etc, but wow.

I am very saddened by this. So goes a six-year partnership.

ETA: Yes, many of the cards I've sold HUNDREDS of over the years, and some are still best-sellers. This makes no sense whatsoever.

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Angela_134247 Gold Member artist Posts: 761	Re: I Guess it Doesn't Matter Reply #2 - Mar 26^th, 2018, 9:31am Frankly, I don't have the time to sort through hundreds, yes HUNDREDS of cards. I may be able to get through a few of them. It's the principle that many of the cards are crystal clear photographs.
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Re: I Guess it Doesn't Matter
Reply #3 - Mar 26^th, 2018, 3:19pm

Quote from Angela_134247 on Mar 26^th, 2018, 9:31am:

Frankly, I don't have the time to sort through hundreds, yes HUNDREDS of cards. I may be able to get through a few of them. It's the principle that many of the cards are crystal clear photographs.

You can take a quick pass to identify your top selling cards by looking at the Store Report, Top Selling cards and set the date range starting back to 1/1/15:
http://www.greetingcarduniverse.com/community/gcu_stats.asp#

The first indicator we'll look at when re-considering a declined card is Substantial sales (100+). After that we look for frequency, recency and relevancy.

Hopefully this will give you a quick way to id which cards to submit for reconsideration.

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Gail_137747 Full Member artist Posts: 119	Re: I Guess it Doesn't Matter Reply #4 - Mar 26^th, 2018, 4:20pm Angela's situation is a good example for letting the reviewers have access to sales reports.
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Angela_134247 Gold Member artist Posts: 761	Re: I Guess it Doesn't Matter Reply #5 - Mar 26^th, 2018, 4:40pm Quote from Gail_137747 on Mar 26^th, 2018, 4:20pm: Angela's situation is a good example for letting the reviewers have access to sales reports. Exactly!
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Angela_134247

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Re: I Guess it Doesn't Matter
Reply #6 - Mar 26^th, 2018, 4:47pm

Quote from Mindy on Mar 26^th, 2018, 3:19pm:

Quote from Angela_134247 on Mar 26^th, 2018, 9:31am:

Frankly, I don't have the time to sort through hundreds, yes HUNDREDS of cards. I may be able to get through a few of them. It's the principle that many of the cards are crystal clear photographs.

You can take a quick pass to identify your top selling cards by looking at the Store Report, Top Selling cards and set the date range starting back to 1/1/15:
http://www.greetingcarduniverse.com/community/gcu_stats.asp#

The first indicator we'll look at when re-considering a declined card is Substantial sales (100+). After that we look for frequency, recency and relevancy.

Hopefully this will give you a quick way to id which cards to submit for reconsideration.

Mindy, I can't look up cards that are declined now with this method. They don't show up in the store report.

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Angela_134247 Gold Member artist Posts: 761	Re: I Guess it Doesn't Matter Reply #7 - Mar 27^th, 2018, 6:23am I sent a list of all the cards that have sold more than 100. It took me quite a while to comply. The craziest one was a card that has sold over 3000 copies, folks.
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Stacia_208183

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Re: I Guess it Doesn't Matter
Reply #8 - Mar 29^th, 2018, 5:36am

Quote from Mindy on Mar 26^th, 2018, 3:19pm:

Quote from Angela_134247 on Mar 26^th, 2018, 9:31am:

Frankly, I don't have the time to sort through hundreds, yes HUNDREDS of cards. I may be able to get through a few of them. It's the principle that many of the cards are crystal clear photographs.

You can take a quick pass to identify your top selling cards by looking at the Store Report, Top Selling cards and set the date range starting back to 1/1/15:
http://www.greetingcarduniverse.com/community/gcu_stats.asp#

The first indicator we'll look at when re-considering a declined card is Substantial sales (100+). After that we look for frequency, recency and relevancy.

Hopefully this will give you a quick way to id which cards to submit for reconsideration.

Would you please remind us about the meaning of the term "relevancy"? Does it mean that the card's text fits the category or that the design is meaningful to current shoppers, or . . . ? Thanks!

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