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Best Friend Birthday Card

Maybe

An estimated 0.1% of orders come back. But prices span $2.27–$7.49, mostly outside the sweet spot, so Best Friend Birthday Card is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
55
55 / 100
Top 15% of 835 Stationery & Office Supplies niches · +8 vs the category median of 47
Market size
£174K/yr526K searches / yr
90-day growth
-1.5%search demand this quarter
Competition
30%top-5 click share · 36 brands · 61 sellers

Flapen Score

Best Friend Birthday Card against its category

The dotted line is the Stationery & Office Supplies average. Past it, Best Friend Birthday Card is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

55Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Best Friend Birthday Card market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Best Friend Birthday Card 526K times last year and spent an estimated £174K. The top 5 brands take 44% of clicks. Demand peaks in May–Jul. Flapen scores it 55 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 9.6% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 526K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 9.6% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -1.5% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £174K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
526K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-1.5%
Conversion, latest week
9.6%
Market size, estimated
£174Ka year
Peak month
July2.5× the quietest month
Top search term
best friend birthday card171K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £3.46.

Listings sell for £3.46 on average, from £2.27 to £7.49. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 40K to 50K a year. The average listing sells 250 to 500 of them. At £3.46 that is £865 to £2K a year per listing.

Average price
£3.46under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£2.27–£7.49
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
40K–50K
Units per listing a year
250–500
Revenue per listing a year
£865–£2K
Returns
0.1%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

80% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 97% ship with Prime. On an average day, 3.6% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #1,105 within Cards & Card Stock. It carries 637 reviews at 4.68 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
80%
Prime listings
97%
Out of stock, average day
3.6%
Average rank
#1,105in Cards & Card Stock
Average rating
4.68 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
637per listing
Listings tracked
59

04 · Newcomers

3 of last year's 15 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

15 products launched here in the last 12 months. 3 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 27 months on average, so a newcomer is not facing entrenched names.

Launched, last 12 months
15
Successful launches
3Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
27 months

Products

Top Best Friend Birthday Card products & what they sell for

The products selling here, as shoppers see them on Amazon. Shelf share and sales are our estimates.

Prices and ratings read from Amazon on Jul 29, 2026. The live listing can differ.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take an estimated 30% of clicks, no more. An open shelf where new products get seen.

£0£5K£10K£16K£21K1101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

36 falling

Sellers

61

Est. top-5 brand share

44%

Top 20: 85%

Est. top-5 click share

30%

Top 20: 65%

Open market

52%

  • Printperfect15%
  • Old English Company9%
  • LimaLima8%
  • Nigel Quiney6%
  • Arrow Gift Co5%
  • Plorede4%

Demand

Best Friend Birthday Card search demand

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

12K8KSpike '25Spike '26DecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: May, Jul · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.5×

Search terms

Top Best Friend Birthday Card search terms shoppers use

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

  • best friend birthday card171K/yr
  • special friend birthday card female141K/yr
  • special friend birthday card41K/yr
  • friend card27K/yr
  • best friend card23K/yr
  • best friend birthday card female20K/yr
  • birthday card special friend female12K/yr
  • birthday card best friend11K/yr
  • birthday cards for women friendship9K/yr
  • birthday card for best friend female9K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Best Friend Birthday Card

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

42%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
43%of negative reviews mention “Size-Overall”
0.1%of orders come back
“Hoped card would be larger”
A buyer, on “Size-Overall”43% 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.

19 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Best Friend Birthday Card questions

Answered from the same tracked data.

Figures on this page are estimates modeled from public Amazon pages and third-party keyword data. Amazon does not supply them, and no connected seller's data is used. How we handle Amazon data