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Vintage Baseball Cards

Maybe

An estimated 0.5% of orders come back. But demand is soft, at -5.9% this quarter, so Vintage Baseball Cards is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
52
52 / 100
Top 32% of 8,101 Sports & Outdoors niches · +5 vs the category median of 47
Market size
$198K/yr260K searches / yr
90-day growth
-5.9%search demand this quarter
Competition
69%top-5 click share · 10 brands · 32 sellers

Flapen Score

Vintage Baseball Cards against its category

The dotted line is the Sports & Outdoors average. Past it, Vintage Baseball Cards is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

52Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Vintage Baseball Cards market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Vintage Baseball Cards 260K times last year and spent an estimated $198K. The top 5 brands take 74% of clicks. Demand peaks in Dec. Flapen scores it 52 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 2.4% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 260K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 2.4% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -5.9% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $198K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
260K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-5.9%
Conversion, latest week
2.4%
Market size, estimated
$198Ka year
Peak month
December74.1× the quietest month
Top search term
sports memorabilia64K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $32.31.

Listings sell for $32.31 on average, from $11.39 to $85.00. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 6K to 8K a year. The average listing sells 100 to 250 of them. At $32.31 that is $3K to $8K a year per listing.

Average price
$32.31inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$11.39–$85.00
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
6K–8K
Units per listing a year
100–250
Revenue per listing a year
$3K–$8K
Returns
0.5%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

28% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 94% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.9% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #42 within Sports Souvenirs. It carries 720 reviews at 4.14 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
28%
Prime listings
94%
Out of stock, average day
0.9%
Average rank
#42in Sports Souvenirs
Average rating
4.14 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
720per listing
Listings tracked
18

04 · Newcomers

Brands here are settling in.

The brands on the shelf have sold for 50 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

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

Products

Top Vintage Baseball 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 69% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

Brands

10 falling

Sellers

32

Top-5 brand share

74%

Top 20: 84%

Top-5 click share

69%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

10%

  • Brand 128%
  • Brand 222%
  • Brand 316%
  • Brand 411%
  • Brand 59%
  • Brand 64%
  • Open — no brand owns it (4 brands, 10%)

Demand

Vintage Baseball Cards search demand

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

250K150KSpike '24Holiday '24Spike '25Holiday '25Prime Day '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 74.1×

Search terms

Top Vintage Baseball Cards search terms shoppers use

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

  • sports memorabilia64K/yr
  • vintage baseball cards33K/yr
  • baseball memorabilia21K/yr
  • memorabilia21K/yr
  • old baseball cards16K/yr
  • unopened baseball cards14K/yr
  • vintage sports cards9K/yr
  • sports collectibles11K/yr
  • 1987 topps baseball cards8K/yr
  • unopened baseball card boxes7K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Vintage Baseball Cards

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

28%of positive reviews mention “Collectibles”
44%of negative reviews mention “Value For Money”
0.5%of orders come back
“worthless crap for the amount paid”
A buyer, on “Value For Money”44% 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.

17 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Vintage Baseball Cards questions

Answered from the same tracked data.