Q Tips
FailThe top 5 brands take 100% of clicks, so Q Tips is a Fail.
- Flapen Score
- 34 / 100Ranks 1,172 of 1,260 Kosmetik niches · −13 vs the category median of 4734
- Market size
- €103K/yr70K searches / yr
- 90-day growth
- -0.8%search demand this quarter
- Competition
- 95%top-5 click share · 5 brands · 16 sellers
Flapen Score
Q Tips against its category
The dotted line is the Kosmetik average. Past it, Q Tips is stronger. Inside it, weaker.
Market
The Q Tips market on Amazon at a glance
Shoppers on Amazon Germany searched for Q Tips 70K times last year and spent an estimated €103K. All 5 brands take every click. Flapen scores it 34 out of 100, a Fail.
01 · Demand
An estimated 22.5% of those searches ended in a purchase.
Shoppers searched for this 70K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon Germany for this niche's terms. An estimated 22.5% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -0.8% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated €103K a year.
- Searches, last 12 months
- 70K
- Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
- -0.8%
- Conversion, latest week
- 22.5%
- Market size, estimated
- €103Ka year
- Peak month
- November1.2× the quietest month
- Top search term
- q tips27K searches a year
02 · Price
A sale here is worth €6.54.
Listings sell for €6.54 on average, from €1.08 to €14.32. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 15K to 20K a year. The average listing sells 1,500 to 2,000 of them. At €6.54 that is €10K to €13K a year per listing.
- Average price
- €6.54under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
- Price range
- €1.08–€14.32
- Amazon Germany median price
- €18.99across 29,809 niches
- Units sold a year
- 15K–20K
- Units per listing a year
- 1,500–2,000
- Revenue per listing a year
- €10K–€13K
- Returns
- 0.1%of orders · Amazon Germany median 1.1%
03 · Entry bar
The bar here is reviews.
67% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 7.7% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #4 within Zubehör. It carries 2,688 reviews at 4.58 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.
- Sponsored listings
- 67%
- Prime listings
- 100%
- Out of stock, average day
- 7.7%
- Average rank
- #4in Zubehör
- Average rating
- 4.58 starsAmazon Germany average 4.37 stars
- Average reviews
- 2,688per listing
- Listings tracked
- 6
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 38 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
- 38 months
Products
Top Q Tips 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 95% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.
Brands
5 falling
Sellers
16
Top-5 brand share
100%
Top 20: 100%
Top-5 click share
95%
Top 20: 100%
Open market
0%
- Brand 157%
- Brand 218%
- Brand 314%
- Brand 46%
- Brand 55%
- Open — no brand owns it (0%)
Demand
Q Tips search demand
Weekly searches over the year, seasonality beneath. Pick a range.
No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.2×
Search terms
Top Q Tips search terms shoppers use
The exact words shoppers type, with yearly volume, growth, and conversion.
- q tips27K/yr
- qtips18K/yr
- q tips wattestaebchen10K/yr
- qtips wattestaebchen7K/yr
- q-tips6K/yr
- q tip3K/yr
Reviews and returns
What reviews say buyers love and hate about Q Tips
We read the reviews and the return reasons for every product selling here.
“Preis mäßig und Qualität eins a”
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.
16 topics
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FAQ
Common Q Tips questions
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