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Lighter

Maybe

Products sell for $39.84 on average, inside the sweet spot. But demand is soft, at -14.9% this quarter, so Lighter is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
63
63 / 100
Top 4% of 213 Home niches · +12 vs the category median of 51
Market size
$494K/yr328K searches / yr
90-day growth
-14.9%search demand this quarter
Competition
40%top-5 click share · 28 brands · 97 sellers

Flapen Score

Lighter against its category

The dotted line is the Home average. Past it, Lighter is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

63Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Lighter market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Arab Emirates searched for Lighter 328K times last year and spent an estimated $494K. The top 5 brands take 54% of clicks. Flapen scores it 63 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

3.8% of searches ended in a purchase last week.

Shoppers searched for this 328K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Arab Emirates for this niche's terms. In the latest week, 3.8% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -14.9% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $494K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
328K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-14.9%
Conversion, latest week
3.8%
Market size, estimated
$494Ka year
Peak month
December1.7× the quietest month
Top search term
lighter165K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $39.84.

Listings sell for $39.84 on average, from $2.47 to $192.62. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 15K to 20K a year. The average listing sells 250 to 500 of them. At $39.84 that is $10K to $20K a year per listing.

Average price
$39.84inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$2.47–$192.62
Amazon United Arab Emirates median price
$60.52across 3,090 niches
Units sold a year
15K–20K
Units per listing a year
250–500
Revenue per listing a year
$10K–$20K
Returns
1.9%of orders · Amazon United Arab Emirates median 1.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

47% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 84% ship with Prime. On an average day, 2.2% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #70 within Home. It carries 600 reviews at 4.06 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
47%
Prime listings
84%
Out of stock, average day
2.2%
Average rank
#70in Home
Average rating
4.06 starsAmazon United Arab Emirates average 4.27 stars
Average reviews
600per listing
Listings tracked
55

04 · Newcomers

Amazon counts 1 of last year's 7 launches as successful.

7 products launched here in the last 12 months. Amazon counts 1 of them as successful launches, new products that hit its first-year sales bar. The brands on the shelf have sold for 48 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
7
Successful launches
1Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
48 months

Products

Top Lighter products & what they sell for

Every tracked product: its share of the shelf, its reviews, and its price.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take only 40% of clicks. An open shelf where new products get seen.

$0$15K$30K$44K$59K1101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)1 product missing review or click data not plotted

Brands

28 falling

Sellers

97

Top-5 brand share

54%

Top 20: 95%

Top-5 click share

40%

Top 20: 72%

Open market

40%

  • GENZY13%
  • ALSAQER13%
  • Generic11%
  • BIC9%
  • TAFAN8%
  • SKY-TOUCH5%

Demand

Lighter search demand

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

9K7KSpike '25Black Friday '25Holiday '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.7×

Search terms

Top Lighter search terms shoppers use

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

  • lighter165K/yr
  • torch lighter21K/yr
  • gas lighter19K/yr
  • lighter gas20K/yr
  • ولاعة17K/yr
  • ولاعة فحم16K/yr
  • bic lighter11K/yr
  • blow torch8K/yr
  • butane torch8K/yr
  • lighters7K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Lighter

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

37%of positive reviews mention “الجودة الشاملة”
28%of negative reviews mention “الجودة الشاملة”
1.9%of orders come back
“Bad quality”
A buyer, on “الجودة الشاملة”28% 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.

19 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Lighter questions

Answered from the same tracked data.