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Boys Birthday Cards

Maybe

Returns run at only 0.1% of orders. But prices span $1.25–$7.41, mostly outside the sweet spot, so Boys Birthday Cards 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
£126K/yr310K searches / yr
90-day growth
-0.7%search demand this quarter
Competition
33%top-5 click share · 25 brands · 46 sellers

Flapen Score

Boys Birthday Cards against its category

The dotted line is the Stationery & Office Supplies average. Past it, Boys Birthday Cards is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

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

Market

The Boys Birthday Cards market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Boys Birthday Cards 310K times last year and spent an estimated £126K. The top 5 brands take 60% of clicks. Flapen scores it 55 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

13.2% of searches ended in a purchase last week.

Shoppers searched for this 310K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. In the latest week, 13.2% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -0.7% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £126K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
310K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-0.7%
Conversion, latest week
13.2%
Market size, estimated
£126Ka year
Peak month
November1.8× the quietest month
Top search term
boys birthday cards73K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £3.08.

Listings sell for £3.08 on average, from £1.25 to £7.41. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 30K to 40K a year. The average listing sells 500 to 750 of them. At £3.08 that is £2K to £2K a year per listing.

Average price
£3.08under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£1.25–£7.41
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
30K–40K
Units per listing a year
500–750
Revenue per listing a year
£2K–£2K
Returns
0.1%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

63% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 98% ship with Prime. On an average day, 3.8% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #1,840 within Cards & Card Stock. It carries 395 reviews at 4.55 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
63%
Prime listings
98%
Out of stock, average day
3.8%
Average rank
#1,840in Cards & Card Stock
Average rating
4.55 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
395per listing
Listings tracked
43

04 · Newcomers

Amazon counts 0 of last year's 12 launches as successful.

12 products launched here in the last 12 months. Amazon counts 0 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
12
Successful launches
0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
33 months

Products

Top Boys Birthday Cards 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 only 33% of clicks. An open shelf where new products get seen.

£0£4K£8K£11K£15K1101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

25 rising

Sellers

46

Top-5 brand share

60%

Top 20: 97%

Top-5 click share

33%

Top 20: 80%

Open market

36%

  • UK Greetings16%
  • PartiKraft13%
  • Piccadilly Greetings13%
  • Felbridge Studio10%
  • Absolutely Yours8%
  • Danilo Promotions LTD5%

Demand

Boys Birthday Cards search demand

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

8K6KSpike '25Spike '26DecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.8×

Search terms

Top Boys Birthday Cards search terms shoppers use

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

  • boys birthday cards73K/yr
  • birthday card boy52K/yr
  • boy birthday card41K/yr
  • boys birthday card32K/yr
  • birthday cards for boys22K/yr
  • birthday card for boy17K/yr
  • birthday card for boys10K/yr
  • birthday card boys10K/yr
  • birthday boy card9K/yr
  • teenage boy birthday card8K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Boys Birthday Cards

What buyers praise, what they complain about and why they send it back, from the reviews.

Complain

Quality-Overall29%+0.70

This card is disappointing quality

Card quality very poor

Extremely poor quality

Size-Overall13%−0.09

One card was smaller than the other two

slightly larger than A6

not big enough

Value For Money8%+1.59

Waste of money

maybe a bit over priced

quite pricey

Thickness6%−0.06

The thickness is somewhere between wrapping paper

The cards are thin

Paper was a bit thin

Strength3%−0.02

they are really flimsy that I would be embarrassed to give these to anyone

The card was also flimsy

Love

Quality-Overall35%+0.70

Good choice of quality cards

Excellent product

good quality cards

Value For Money22%+1.59

Good value

Great value for money

Great value

Design-Overall9%+0.18

The designs are colourful and nice

Nice Design

Design is fairly simple

Color7%+1.17

the colours are bright

the colors are gorgeous

Lovely colours

Size-Overall5%−0.09

Good size

The size of the card is really good

Size perfect & age appropriate

Return

0.1% Return rate 33% Fixable by listing

Quality-Overall31%▁▇▂█▄▃

This card is disappointing quality

Card quality very poor

Extremely poor quality

Size-Overall24%█▁▁▃▄▂

One card was smaller than the other two

slightly larger than A6

not big enough

Scratch Resistance6%▁█▁▁▁▁
Design-Overall5%▁▁▁▁▁█
Advertised Vs Actual Product5%▁█▁▇▁▁

Not as advertised

FAQ

Common Boys Birthday Cards questions

Answered from the same tracked data.