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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

An estimated 16.8% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 40K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 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

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 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

Est. top-5 brand share

91%

Top 20: 100%

Est. 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 estimated 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

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

35%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
33%of negative reviews mention “Paper Brightness”
0.3%of orders come back
“WHITE PAPER INSIDE NOT YELLOW”
A buyer, on “Paper Brightness”33% 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.

16 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Yellow Paper 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