distress ink
Worth a lookShows low returns (1.1%), but soft demand (-20.5% this quarter) keeps it on the watch list.
Returns
Great1.1%return rate — above 6% kills the launch gate
Avg price
Great$22.61avg listing price — sweet spot $15–$100
Price range
Great$6.25–$80.59cheapest to priciest tracked listing — scored on the share inside $15–$100
Review moat
Good706.72avg incumbent reviews — the moat a new listing must climb
Market size
Good$333K$333K/yr · 338K searches
Conversion
Good4.3%search→purchase rate — share of searches ending in a sale
Competition
Good54%top-5 click share — leaders hold, buyers still browse
Quality gap
Okay4.6★avg incumbent rating — lower means beatable quality
Brand share
Bad92%top-5 brand share — brand-locked demand
Growth
Bad-20.5%90-day search growth — must beat 0% to launch
Competition
The top 5 products take 54% of clicks — established leaders, but buyers still shop beyond them.Brands
8 falling
Sellers
77
Top-5 brand share
92%
Open market
3%
- Ranger31%
- Tim Holtz28%
- CraftyManor19%
- junliangshebei8%
- GRAS Art Bundles6%
- Tim Holtz Ranger Ink4%
- Open — no brand owns it (2 brands, 3%)
Product shelf
Each bubble is one product — market share against review moat; bubble size tracks estimated sales, color grades how beatable the incumbent looks.
All 25 tracked products in this niche — three views at once, no toggling.
Top sellers
by 90-day click share
CraftyManor Masked Impression Mini Ink Pads for Stamps Water Based Smudge Chalk Stamp Pad for Scrapbooking Journaling Card Making DIY Craft Scrapbook Supplies for Adults (24 Colors)
CraftyManor$18.994.6★213 rev
Ranger DIS-19527 Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad Vintage Photo
Ranger$7.434.7★2,924 rev
Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Ink Pads - Abandoned Coral Wild Honey Picked Raspberry Peacock Feathers Salty Ocean and Seedless Preserves - Bundle of 6 Ink Pads - Set Released June 2017
Tim Holtz$28.894.7★662 rev
Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Mini Ink Pad Kits #1 #2 and #3 Bundle
junliangshebei$28.274.5★755 rev
Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Oxide Ink Bundle - Four 3 x 3 Pads (E : Black Soot Walnut Stain Vintage Photo and Antique Linen)
Tim Holtz$21.094.6★1,248 rev
Newest
by launch date
Tim Holtz Ranger Mini Distress Oxide Ink Cube Pads Kits 7 8 9 10 11 12-24 Colors 6 Carnora Blending Brushes
Tim Holtz$80.598 rev
CraftyManor Masked Impression Mini Ink Pads for Stamps Water Based Smudge Chalk Stamp Pad for Scrapbooking Journaling Card Making DIY Craft Scrapbook Supplies for Adults (24 Colors)
CraftyManor$18.99213 rev
CraftyManor Mini Smudge Ink Pads for Stamps Water Based Halo Dye Stamp Pad for Scrapbooking DIY Craft Scrapbook Supplies for Adults (8 Colors)
CraftyManor$8.95404 rev
Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Ink Pads and Pixiss Foam Blending Brush Tools - 1x1 Stamp Pads Antique Linen Vintage Photo Walnut Stain Black Soot for Card Making Tools and Scrapbooking Supplies
GRAS Art Bundles$18.86156 rev
UNIMEIX 6 Pack Blending Brush for Card Making Crafting Ink Blender Brushes Set Tool Paper Background Brush Drawing (Brown)
UNIMEIX$8.02969 rev
Trending
90-day click momentum
Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Oxide Ink Bundle - Four 3 x 3 Pads (T - Tea and Coffee : Dried Marigold Tea Dye Rusty Hinge and Ground Espresso)
Tim Holtz$22.584.6★
Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Pads 12pc January 2018
Ranger$54.234.7★
Tim Holtz Ranger Mini Distress Oxide Ink Cube Pads Kits 7 8 9 10 11 12-24 Colors 6 Carnora Blending Brushes
Tim Holtz$80.594.8★
CraftyManor Masked Impression Mini Ink Pads for Stamps Water Based Smudge Chalk Stamp Pad for Scrapbooking Journaling Card Making DIY Craft Scrapbook Supplies for Adults (24 Colors)
CraftyManor$18.994.6★
Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Oxides Ink Pad-Gathered Twigs
Ranger$8.034.7★
Demand & seasonality
Weekly Amazon search volume, last 104 weeks — -20.5% search growth over the last 90 days.No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.5×
Reviews
What buyers praise and complain about, mined from review topics.What buyers love
“Beautiful colors”
“Excellent Product”
“Good price”
“Exactly as pictured”
“the different sizes in the brushes are perfect”
“Easy to use”
“they come out so clean”
“Its works great”
“Smooth application”
“they have one or two I liked on projects”
What buyers complain about
“Dry”
“Very small”
“Pricey”
“Not as advertised”
“Inconsistent quality”
“Hardly any pigment, like”
“VERY hard to open”
“cant remove the ink”
“my fingers or the pad slips”
“This came all dried out doesnt even work”