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Cardboard

Fail

Shoppers spend only $39K a year here, so Cardboard is a Fail.

Flapen Score
42
42 / 100
Ranks 13 of 16 Industrial & Scientific niches · −7 vs the category median of 49
Market size
$39K/yr41K searches / yr
90-day growth
-19.2%search demand this quarter
Competition
67%top-5 click share · 8 brands · 13 sellers

Flapen Score

Cardboard against its category

The dotted line is the Industrial & Scientific average. Past it, Cardboard is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

42Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Cardboard market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Arab Emirates searched for Cardboard 41K times last year and spent an estimated $39K. The top 5 brands take 95% of clicks. Flapen scores it 42 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

3.8% of searches ended in a purchase last week.

Shoppers searched for this 41K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Arab Emirates for this niche's terms. In the latest week, 3.8% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -19.2% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $39K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
41K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-19.2%
Conversion, latest week
3.8%
Market size, estimated
$39Ka year
Top search term
cardboard25K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $25.31.

Listings sell for $25.31 on average, from $12.35 to $45.37. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 2K to 3K a year. The average listing sells 100 to 250 of them. At $25.31 that is $3K to $6K a year per listing.

Average price
$25.31inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$12.35–$45.37
Amazon United Arab Emirates median price
$60.52across 3,090 niches
Units sold a year
2K–3K
Units per listing a year
100–250
Revenue per listing a year
$3K–$6K
Returns
0.8%of orders · Amazon United Arab Emirates median 1.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

61% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 94% ship with Prime. On an average day, 12.2% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #1 within Industrial & Scientific. It carries 12 reviews at 4.51 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
61%
Prime listings
94%
Out of stock, average day
12.2%
Average rank
#1in Industrial & Scientific
Average rating
4.51 starsAmazon United Arab Emirates average 4.27 stars
Average reviews
12per listing
Listings tracked
18

04 · Newcomers

Amazon counts 2 of last year's 5 launches as successful.

5 products launched here in the last 12 months. Amazon counts 2 of them as successful launches, new products that hit its first-year sales bar. The brands on the shelf have sold for 33 months on average, so a newcomer is not facing entrenched names.

Launched, last 12 months
5
Successful launches
2Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
33 months

Products

Top Cardboard products & what they sell for

Every tracked product: its share of the shelf, its reviews, and its price.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take 67% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

$0$4K$8K$12K$16K110100 Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

8 flat

Sellers

13

Top-5 brand share

95%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

67%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

3%

  • Premify43%
  • HYFY17%
  • Generic17%
  • Al FAKHAMA15%
  • CRAFT MAGIC3%
  • HOOJO2%
  • Open — no brand owns it (2 brands, 3%)

Demand

Cardboard search demand

Weekly searches over the year, seasonality beneath. Pick a range.

2K1KSpike '26NovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJul

Peak months: Jan, Feb · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.7× · 9 of 12 months tracked

Search terms

Top Cardboard search terms shoppers use

The exact words shoppers type, with yearly volume, growth, and conversion.

  • cardboard25K/yr
  • cardboard sheets9K/yr
  • card board5K/yr
  • ورق مقوى4K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Cardboard

We read the reviews and the return reasons for every product selling here.

63%of positive reviews mention “المنتج المعلن عنه مقابل المنتج الفعلي”
13%of negative reviews mention “الجودة الشاملة”
0.8%of orders come back
“Very poor quality”
A buyer, on “الجودة الشاملة”13% of negative reviews mention the same topic

Every topic

Every topic buyers talk about, one row each.

Red shows the share of negative reviews and green the share of positive reviews, biggest topic first. Open a row to read what they wrote.

16 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Cardboard questions

Answered from the same tracked data.