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Greeting Cards

Greeting Cards shows low returns (0.3%), but prices mostly outside the sweet spot ($3.20–$13.36) keeps it on the watch list.

Flapen Score

50
Worth a look
Market size 36Growth 12Conversion 71Competition 76Returns 99Price range 0Avg price 21Brand share 62Review moat 60Quality gap 42
This niche Category average

Is Greeting Cards profitable on Amazon?

According to Flapen's Amazon United Kingdom niche tracking, Greeting Cards is a £178K/yr Amazon United Kingdom market (362K searches/yr). The top 5 brands hold 68% of demand. Demand peaks in Jan–Feb. Verdict: Worth a look — 50/100.

Greeting Cards: the Amazon niche in one read

Everything a seller checks before entering, in three answers.

Is the demand real?

Worth a look. Search demand moved -25.4% over the last 90 days and 6.5% of searches end in a purchase.

£178K

revenue / yr

Units sold / yr25K
Search volume / yr-25.4%362K
Conversion rate6.5%
Avg price£7.53

Who owns the niche?

The top 5 brands hold 68% of demand, so 32% of the market is open.

32%

open market share

Brands · sellers21 · 28
Top-5 product click share39%
Open market32%
Avg brand age31 months

Is there a way in?

Listing quality. The average product page scores 0/100 on content standards. Incumbents average 4.5★ — the gap to enter on.

0/100

page quality · 41 products

Sponsored placement85%
New entrants (1y)9· 2 succeeded
Avg rating4.5★
Avg reviews1,107

Top Greeting Cards products & what they sell for

Every tracked product — its share of the shelf, its review moat, and what it sells for.

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

Clicks spread well past the top 5 (39% combined) — 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

Top-5 brand share

68%

Top 20: 99%

Top-5 click share

39%

Top 20: 80%

Open market

28%

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

Greeting Cards demand & seasonality

Weekly search volume, with the niche's key stats alongside.

Volume362KCVR6.5%Products41Brands21Top 5 Brands68%OOS Rate8.9%Rating4.5★Reviews1,107Avg BSR#2,006
13K8KSpike '24Spike '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

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

Top Greeting Cards search terms shoppers use

The exact queries shoppers type, with 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

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Greeting Cards

What buyers mention most, as a share of all reviews.

What buyers love

89% of reviews
Value For Money33%

Great deal

Quality-Overall31%

Good Quality Cards

Design-Overall8%

Cute designs

Color5%

the colors are gorgeous

Paper Quality3%

Very good quality of the paper

What buyers complain about

62% of reviews
Size-Overall25%

slightly larger than A6

Quality-Overall18%

Extremely poor quality

Adhesion/Stickiness5%

Not stick,as they have nothing

Thickness3%

The cards are thin

Value For Money3%

Not cheap

Greeting Cards return rate & reasons

Why buyers send it back, as a share of all return requests.

0.3%

Return rate

65%

Fixable by listing

The "fixable" share counts expectation-mismatch reasons — size, look, advertised-vs-actual — that better copy and images address.

1Size-Overall
58%
2Quality-Overall
20%
3Design-Overall
5%
4Advertised Vs Actual Product
3%
5Paper Quality
2%

Common Greeting Cards questions

The questions sellers ask about this niche, answered from the tracked metrics.

Flapen scores Greeting Cards 50/100 on Amazon United Kingdom — Worth a look. The niche generates £178K/yr across 41 tracked products. 2 of 9 products launched in the last 360 days are still selling. Search demand moved -25.4% over the last 90 days.
Search demand for Greeting Cards on Amazon United Kingdom peaks in Jan–Feb, where the busiest month runs 2.4× the quietest.