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Playing Cards

Fail

The top 5 brands take 98% of clicks, so Playing Cards is a Fail.

Flapen Score
47
47 / 100
Top 42% of 3,143 Toys & Games niches · +1 vs the category median of 46
Market size
$6.0M/yr8.7M searches / yr
90-day growth
-2.4%search demand this quarter
Competition
66%top-5 click share · 6 brands · 64 sellers

Flapen Score

Playing Cards against its category

The dotted line is the Toys & Games average. Past it, Playing Cards is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

47Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Playing Cards market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Playing Cards 8.7M times last year and spent an estimated $6.0M. The top 5 brands take 98% of clicks. Demand peaks in Dec. Flapen scores it 47 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 7.3% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 8.7M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 7.3% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -2.4% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $6.0M a year.

Searches, last 12 months
8.7M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-2.4%
Conversion, latest week
7.3%
Market size, estimated
$6.0Ma year
Peak month
December2.3× the quietest month
Top search term
playing cards3.3M searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $9.33.

Listings sell for $9.33 on average, from $3.62 to $22.79. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 600K to 800K a year. The average listing sells 10,000 to 12,500 of them. At $9.33 that is $93K to $117K a year per listing.

Average price
$9.33under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$3.62–$22.79
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
600K–800K
Units per listing a year
10,000–12,500
Revenue per listing a year
$93K–$117K
Returns
0.7%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is ads and reviews.

94% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 4.9% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #20 within Standard Playing Card Decks. It carries 5,479 reviews at 4.70 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
94%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
4.9%
Average rank
#20in Standard Playing Card Decks
Average rating
4.70 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
5,479per listing
Listings tracked
18

04 · Newcomers

1 of last year's 1 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

1 products launched here in the last 12 months. 1 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 46 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
1
Successful launches
1Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
46 months

Products

Top Playing 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 66% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

Brands

6 falling

Sellers

64

Top-5 brand share

98%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

66%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

0%

  • Brand 185%
  • Brand 24%
  • Brand 33%
  • Brand 43%
  • Brand 53%
  • Brand 62%

Demand

Playing Cards search demand

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

300K200KHoliday '24Prime Day '25Holiday '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.3×

Search terms

Top Playing Cards search terms shoppers use

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

  • playing cards3.3M/yr
  • cards1.2M/yr
  • deck of cards938K/yr
  • bicycle playing cards874K/yr
  • card479K/yr
  • bicycle cards297K/yr
  • poker cards319K/yr
  • playing cards 2 pack220K/yr
  • playing cards themed229K/yr
  • deck of playing cards129K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Playing Cards

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

24%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
13%of negative reviews mention “Advertised Vs Actual Product”
0.7%of orders come back
“Inaccurate description”
A buyer, on “Advertised Vs Actual Product”13% 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.

18 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Playing Cards questions

Answered from the same tracked data.