Basketball Cards
MaybeAn estimated 0.3% of orders come back. But the top 5 brands take 98% of clicks, so Basketball Cards is a Maybe.
- Flapen Score
- 61 / 100Top 9% of 8,101 Sports & Outdoors niches · +14 vs the category median of 4761
- Market size
- $3.6M/yr2.4M searches / yr
- 90-day growth
- -11.6%search demand this quarter
- Competition
- 51%top-5 click share · 6 brands · 202 sellers
Flapen Score
Basketball Cards against its category
The dotted line is the Sports & Outdoors average. Past it, Basketball Cards is stronger. Inside it, weaker.
Market
The Basketball Cards market on Amazon at a glance
Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Basketball Cards 2.4M times last year and spent an estimated $3.6M. The top 5 brands take 98% of clicks. Demand peaks in Dec. Flapen scores it 61 out of 100, a Maybe.
01 · Demand
An estimated 2.9% of those searches ended in a purchase.
Shoppers searched for this 2.4M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 2.9% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -11.6% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $3.6M a year.
- Searches, last 12 months
- 2.4M
- Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
- -11.6%
- Conversion, latest week
- 2.9%
- Market size, estimated
- $3.6Ma year
- Peak month
- December3.4× the quietest month
- Top search term
- basketball cards1.2M searches a year
02 · Price
A sale here is worth $52.56.
Listings sell for $52.56 on average, from $10.68 to $189.14. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 100K to 125K a year. The average listing sells 1,500 to 2,000 of them. At $52.56 that is $79K to $105K a year per listing.
- Average price
- $52.56inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
- Price range
- $10.68–$189.14
- Amazon United States median price
- $24.38across 115,062 niches
- Units sold a year
- 100K–125K
- Units per listing a year
- 1,500–2,000
- Revenue per listing a year
- $79K–$105K
- Returns
- 0.3%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%
03 · Entry bar
The bar here is low.
68% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 71% ship with Prime. On an average day, 8.2% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #86 within Sports Souvenirs. It carries 171 reviews at 4.02 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.
- Sponsored listings
- 68%
- Prime listings
- 71%
- Out of stock, average day
- 8.2%
- Average rank
- #86in Sports Souvenirs
- Average rating
- 4.02 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
- Average reviews
- 171per listing
- Listings tracked
- 28
04 · Newcomers
17 of last year's 18 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.
18 products launched here in the last 12 months. 17 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 38 months on average, so the names here are settling in.
- Launched, last 12 months
- 18
- Successful launches
- 17Amazon's first-year sales bar
- Average brand age
- 38 months
Products
Top Basketball Cards products & what they sell for
Every tracked product: its share of the shelf, its reviews, and its price.
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Competition
Competition: brands, sellers & click share
The top 5 products take 51% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.
Brands
6 falling
Sellers
202
Top-5 brand share
98%
Top 20: 100%
Top-5 click share
51%
Top 20: 90%
Open market
0%
- Brand 169%
- Brand 213%
- Brand 312%
- Brand 42%
- Brand 52%
- Brand 62%
Demand
Basketball Cards search demand
Weekly searches over the year, seasonality beneath. Pick a range.
Peak months: Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 3.4×
Search terms
Top Basketball Cards search terms shoppers use
The exact words shoppers type, with yearly volume, growth, and conversion.
- basketball cards1.2M/yr
- nba cards280K/yr
- topps basketball cards153K/yr
- topps chrome basketball116K/yr
- basketball trading cards76K/yr
- basketball cards 2025-202666K/yr
- nba basketball cards50K/yr
- nba trading cards54K/yr
- basketball cards packs56K/yr
- topps basketball46K/yr
Reviews and returns
What reviews say buyers love and hate about Basketball Cards
We read the reviews and the return reasons for every product selling here.
“It was a waste of 100 bucks”
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.
21 topics
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