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Read Sep 2026. Figures here are a reading taken then, not a live feed.
Every cent of an $8.87 order, from the printer to what is left — and the largest single line is not the product, it is moving it. What survives Amazon’s two cuts is about two fifths of the order, because almost none of it goes on ads.
A deck of cards costs cents to print and cents to ship. Amazon’s fulfilment fee does not care: it prices a box by its size and weight, and this one is 0.87 inches deep, an eighth of an inch over the Small Standard limit, so it pays the Large Standard rate on every order. The table below starts with the printers.
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| Supplier | Track record | Buyer rating | Sold on Alibaba | MOQ | Unit price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Guangzhou Xinyi Printing Co., Ltd | Verified PRO · 23 yrs | Five stars, no score shown | 8,384 | 200–500 pieces | $0.59–1.60 |
| Guangdong Wangjing Card Game Tech Co., Ltd | Verified · 7 yrs | 4.5★ from 8 | 20 | 200–500 sets | $0.43–1.65 |
| Guangdong Sihan Printing And Packaging Co., Ltd | Verified · 6 yrs | 5.0★ from 15 | 24 | 100 sets | $0.39 |
| Average lowest price — the cost to make used below | $0.47 |
All three are Alibaba Verified and in China, from a search filtered to a 4.5+ supplier rating; none of the listings was marked as an ad. Their decks are other people’s games — affirmation cards, drinking games, a family game — which is the point: printing a custom deck in a box is routine work. Sold counts are Alibaba’s own per-listing counters added up per supplier. The cost to make takes each supplier’s lowest listed price — $0.59, $0.43 and $0.39 — and averages them: the low end, because it is what a production order moves toward. Spite House’s own printer is not public, so this prices the deck as a new seller would buy it.
| Input | Figure | Where it comes from |
|---|---|---|
| Carton | 9.5 × 7.0 × 2.2 cm, 0.100 kg | The best seller’s own package size (B0FMGJSSXT) |
| Volume | 0.000146 cbm | The carton, in cubic metres |
| Rate | $496.67 / cbm | Less-than-container-load, Shanghai → Los Angeles, door to door |
| Shipping, per deck | $0.07 | 0.000146 cbm × $496.67 |
The rate is the low end of the quoted band, door to door — customs clearance and delivery included, duty and tariffs excluded — and it prices the retail box rather than a master carton. A box this small is where that matters least: even the top of the band, which prices express services, comes to about 60 cents a deck. The other designs ship in the same size of box.
| Line | Per deck | From |
|---|---|---|
| Production | $0.47 | The printers’ lowest prices, averaged — COGS table above |
| Tariff | $0.09 | ASSUMED: 20% of production, Section 301 plus the reciprocal rate on China, applied flat |
| Shipping | $0.07 | This deck’s carton at $496.67/cbm — shipping table above |
| Landed cost | $0.63 | What one deck costs before it sells |
Where Spite House prints is not public, so the tariff assumes China, like the quotes. No prep or inbound-placement fee is added, so the figure is a floor on that count.
The shape of it is unusual: on most products the factory is the largest cost and the marketplace takes a slice. Here it is the other way round. Fulfilment alone is several times the cost of goods, because Amazon prices moving a box by its size and weight rather than by what is in it — and a deck of cards costs about the same to pick, pack and ship whether it sells for $6.97 or $19.99.
Which is the argument for the usual $12.99 and the $19.99 re-cuts. The same object, a fulfilment fee 85 cents higher than at the discount, at up to nearly three times the discounted price — almost every dollar of that increase lands in margin.