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Yellow Paper

Fail

Demand is soft, at -22.2% this quarter, so Yellow Paper is a Fail.

Flapen Score
38
38 / 100
Ranks 652 of 835 Stationery & Office Supplies niches · −9 vs the category median of 47
Market size
£58K/yr40K searches / yr
90-day growth
-22.2%search demand this quarter
Competition
75%top-5 click share · 8 brands · 25 sellers

Flapen Score

Yellow Paper against its category

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

38Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Yellow Paper market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Yellow Paper 40K times last year and spent an estimated £58K. The top 5 brands take 91% of clicks. Flapen scores it 38 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

16.8% of searches ended in a purchase last week.

Shoppers searched for this 40K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. In the latest week, 16.8% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -22.2% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £58K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
40K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-22.2%
Conversion, latest week
16.8%
Market size, estimated
£58Ka year
Peak month
September1.7× the quietest month
Top search term
yellow paper20K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £8.61.

Listings sell for £8.61 on average, from £3.98 to £18.92. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 8K to 10K a year. The average listing sells 250 to 500 of them. At £8.61 that is £2K to £4K a year per listing.

Average price
£8.61under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£3.98–£18.92
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
8K–10K
Units per listing a year
250–500
Revenue per listing a year
£2K–£4K
Returns
0.3%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

50% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 83% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.8% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #64 within Paper. It carries 447 reviews at 4.59 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
50%
Prime listings
83%
Out of stock, average day
0.8%
Average rank
#64in Paper
Average rating
4.59 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
447per listing
Listings tracked
12

04 · Newcomers

Brands here are established.

The brands on the shelf have sold for 65 months on average, so the names here are established.

Launched, last 12 months
0
Successful launches
0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
65 months

Products

Top Yellow Paper 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 75% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.

£0£6K£12K£17K£23K1101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

8 falling

Sellers

25

Top-5 brand share

91%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

75%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

5%

  • Hawksbill43%
  • Q-Connect21%
  • 5 Star16%
  • Vokenforu6%
  • Baker Ross5%
  • DJP4%
  • Open — no brand owns it (2 brands, 5%)

Demand

Yellow Paper search demand

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

1K600Spike '24Spike '25Prime Day '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.7×

Search terms

Top Yellow Paper search terms shoppers use

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

  • yellow paper20K/yr
  • yellow a4 paper11K/yr
  • a4 yellow paper4K/yr
  • yellow printer paper a43K/yr
  • yellow paper a43K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Yellow Paper

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

Complain

Paper Brightness33%−0.16

WHITE PAPER INSIDE NOT YELLOW

Thickness11%−0.01

I would have liked it a little thicker

slightly thicker, although the same card weight

Color11%+0.73

I do prefer this softer yellow colour rather than the very bright yellow

Love

Quality-Overall35%+2.77

Good quality

Excelent

Quality counts

Paper Quality12%+0.73

Good paper for printing

Excellent yellow printer paper

Good quality paper that I've bought several times in different colours for printing manuals for people that have problems reading from white paper

Color10%+0.73

great to be able to get a pack of all the same colour for certain crafts

Exactly the colour I wanted

A lovely bright yellow too

Value For Money10%−0.07

Good value

Value for Money

Paper Brightness10%−0.16

Good quality paper with a strong yellow colour

Perfectly good yellow printer paper

nice and bright

Return

0.3% Return rate 59% Fixable by listing

Color46%▁█▆▆▅▇

I do prefer this softer yellow colour rather than the very bright yellow

Paper Quality11%█▃▁▁▄▆
Paper Brightness7%▁▁▇█▁▁

WHITE PAPER INSIDE NOT YELLOW

Size-Overall5%▁▁▇▁█▁
Print Quality5%█▁▁▁▄▁

FAQ

Common Yellow Paper questions

Answered from the same tracked data.