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Mum Birthday Cards

Maybe

Returns run at only 0.1% of orders. But prices span $1.37–$7.32, mostly outside the sweet spot, so Mum Birthday Cards is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
57
57 / 100
Top 11% of 835 Stationery & Office Supplies niches · +10 vs the category median of 47
Market size
£574K/yr1.4M searches / yr
90-day growth
+0.9%search demand this quarter
Competition
43%top-5 click share · 26 brands · 52 sellers

Flapen Score

Mum Birthday Cards against its category

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

57Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Mum Birthday Cards market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Mum Birthday Cards 1.4M times last year and spent an estimated £574K. The top 5 brands take 57% of clicks. Flapen scores it 57 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

11.3% of searches ended in a purchase last week.

Shoppers searched for this 1.4M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. In the latest week, 11.3% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +0.9% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £574K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
1.4M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+0.9%
Conversion, latest week
11.3%
Market size, estimated
£574Ka year
Peak month
February1.4× the quietest month
Top search term
mum birthday card678K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £3.70.

Listings sell for £3.70 on average, from £1.37 to £7.32. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 125K to 150K a year. The average listing sells 2,000 to 2,500 of them. At £3.70 that is £7K to £9K a year per listing.

Average price
£3.70under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£1.37–£7.32
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
125K–150K
Units per listing a year
2,000–2,500
Revenue per listing a year
£7K–£9K
Returns
0.1%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

76% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 1.3% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #933 within Cards & Card Stock. It carries 880 reviews at 4.64 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
76%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
1.3%
Average rank
#933in Cards & Card Stock
Average rating
4.64 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
880per listing
Listings tracked
41

04 · Newcomers

Amazon counts 2 of last year's 8 launches as successful.

8 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 26 months on average, so a newcomer is not facing entrenched names.

Launched, last 12 months
8
Successful launches
2Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
26 months

Products

Top Mum 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 43% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

£0£23K£46K£69K£92K1101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

26 falling

Sellers

52

Top-5 brand share

57%

Top 20: 95%

Top-5 click share

43%

Top 20: 81%

Open market

37%

  • Piccadilly Greetings24%
  • Old English Company11%
  • Me To You10%
  • IC&G, International Cards & Gifts7%
  • Mirelia6%
  • Printperfect6%

Demand

Mum Birthday Cards search demand

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

30K20KSepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.4×

Search terms

Top Mum Birthday Cards search terms shoppers use

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

  • mum birthday card678K/yr
  • birthday card mum189K/yr
  • birthday card for mum85K/yr
  • happy birthday mum card76K/yr
  • birthday cards for mum75K/yr
  • happy birthday mum54K/yr
  • mom birthday card36K/yr
  • mother birthday card34K/yr
  • mum birthday cards28K/yr
  • mums birthday card15K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Mum Birthday Cards

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

Complain

Value For Money16%0.00

Not worth the price

Its WAY over priced

ABIT expensive

Quality-Overall14%+3.16

Very poor quality

Overpriced for poor quality

Very expensive for the quality

Advertised Vs Actual Product14%−0.09

Picture misleading

Misleading

misleading

Size-Overall14%0.00

small card,

Quite small

Larger than I expected

3D Effect11%−0.09

Not 3d- its a flat card

Love

Quality-Overall32%+3.16

pretty and good quality card

This card is very well made

Excellent quality

Value For Money18%0.00

Good value

worth the money

Excellent value for money

Design-Overall9%+0.55

The design is beautiful

Pretty design

Very clever design

Advertised Vs Actual Product7%−0.09

Exactly as shown in the photographs

The card was as shown

As described

Color6%+0.46

The colours were beautiful too

the colour scheme

Colours are bold

Return

0.1% Return rate 44% Fixable by listing

Advertised Vs Actual Product24%██▂▇▂▆

Picture misleading

Misleading

misleading

Quality-Overall22%▁█▅▁▄▂

Very poor quality

Overpriced for poor quality

Very expensive for the quality

Size-Overall13%▁▁▄▄█▃

small card,

Quite small

Larger than I expected

3D Effect7%▁▁█▁▁▁

Not 3d- its a flat card

Defective Material/Parts4%▁▁▅▁▁█

FAQ

Common Mum Birthday Cards questions

Answered from the same tracked data.