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Greeting Cards

Maybe

An estimated 0.3% of orders come back. But prices span $3.20–$13.36, mostly outside the sweet spot, so Greeting Cards is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
50
50 / 100
Top 37% of 835 Stationery & Office Supplies niches · +3 vs the category median of 47
Market size
£178K/yr362K searches / yr
90-day growth
-25.4%search demand this quarter
Competition
39%top-5 click share · 21 brands · 28 sellers

Flapen Score

Greeting Cards against its category

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

50Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Greeting Cards market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Greeting Cards 362K times last year and spent an estimated £178K. The top 5 brands take 68% of clicks. Demand peaks in Jan–Feb. Flapen scores it 50 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 6.5% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 362K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 6.5% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -25.4% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £178K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
362K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-25.4%
Conversion, latest week
6.5%
Market size, estimated
£178Ka year
Peak month
January2.4× the quietest month
Top search term
birthday cards multipack137K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £7.53.

Listings sell for £7.53 on average, from £3.20 to £13.36. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 20K to 25K a year. The average listing sells 500 to 750 of them. At £7.53 that is £4K to £6K a year per listing.

Average price
£7.53under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£3.20–£13.36
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
20K–25K
Units per listing a year
500–750
Revenue per listing a year
£4K–£6K
Returns
0.3%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

85% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 95% ship with Prime. On an average day, 8.9% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #2,006 within Cards & Card Stock. It carries 1,107 reviews at 4.50 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
85%
Prime listings
95%
Out of stock, average day
8.9%
Average rank
#2,006in Cards & Card Stock
Average rating
4.50 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
1,107per listing
Listings tracked
41

04 · Newcomers

2 of last year's 9 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

9 products launched here in the last 12 months. 2 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 31 months on average, so a newcomer is not facing entrenched names.

Launched, last 12 months
9
Successful launches
2Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
31 months

Products

Top Greeting Cards 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 39% of clicks, no more. An open shelf where new products get seen.

£0£7K£14K£21K£28K101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

21 falling

Sellers

28

Est. top-5 brand share

68%

Top 20: 99%

Est. top-5 click share

39%

Top 20: 80%

Open market

28%

  • SWEETZER & ORANGE22%
  • the lazy panda card company19%
  • DEEPLAY14%
  • SOL7%
  • Piccadilly Greetings6%
  • feela5%

Demand

Greeting Cards search demand

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

13K8KSpike '24Spike '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Jan, Feb · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.4×

Search terms

Top Greeting Cards search terms shoppers use

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

  • birthday cards multipack137K/yr
  • birthday card pack29K/yr
  • pack of birthday cards30K/yr
  • greetings cards20K/yr
  • birthday cards pack13K/yr
  • greeting cards multipack13K/yr
  • multipack birthday cards11K/yr
  • pack of birthday cards mixed adults11K/yr
  • birthday card packs11K/yr
  • birthday card multipack11K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Greeting Cards

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

33%of positive reviews mention “Value For Money”
25%of negative reviews mention “Size-Overall”
0.3%of orders come back
“slightly larger than A6”
A buyer, on “Size-Overall”25% 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.

18 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Greeting Cards 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