Rock Salt
FailPrices span $1.70–$16.83, mostly outside the sweet spot, so Rock Salt is a Fail.
- Flapen Score
- 45 / 100Ranks 517 of 811 Automotive niches · −4 vs the category median of 4945
- Market size
- £512K/yr429K searches / yr
- 90-day growth
- -11.5%search demand this quarter
- Competition
- 78%top-5 click share · 10 brands · 51 sellers
Flapen Score
Rock Salt against its category
The dotted line is the Automotive average. Past it, Rock Salt is stronger. Inside it, weaker.
Market
The Rock Salt market on Amazon at a glance
Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Rock Salt 429K times last year and spent an estimated £512K. The top 5 brands take 90% of clicks. Demand peaks in Jan–Nov. Flapen scores it 45 out of 100, a Fail.
01 · Demand
An estimated 14.3% of those searches ended in a purchase.
Shoppers searched for this 429K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 14.3% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -11.5% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £512K a year.
- Searches, last 12 months
- 429K
- Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
- -11.5%
- Conversion, latest week
- 14.3%
- Market size, estimated
- £512Ka year
- Peak month
- January6.4× the quietest month
- Top search term
- rock salt183K searches a year
02 · Price
A sale here is worth £8.36.
Listings sell for £8.36 on average, from £1.70 to £16.83. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 60K to 80K a year. The average listing sells 2,000 to 2,500 of them. At £8.36 that is £17K to £21K a year per listing.
- Average price
- £8.36under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
- Price range
- £1.70–£16.83
- Amazon United Kingdom median price
- £12.12across 27,606 niches
- Units sold a year
- 60K–80K
- Units per listing a year
- 2,000–2,500
- Revenue per listing a year
- £17K–£21K
- Returns
- 0.0%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%
03 · Entry bar
The bar here is low.
57% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 43% ship with Prime. On an average day, 3.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #106 within Car Accessories. It carries 802 reviews at 4.56 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.
- Sponsored listings
- 57%
- Prime listings
- 43%
- Out of stock, average day
- 3.0%
- Average rank
- #106in Car Accessories
- Average rating
- 4.56 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
- Average reviews
- 802per listing
- Listings tracked
- 14
04 · Newcomers
0 of last year's 2 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.
2 products launched here in the last 12 months. 0 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 69 months on average, so the names here are established.
- Launched, last 12 months
- 2
- Successful launches
- 0Amazon's first-year sales bar
- Average brand age
- 69 months
Products
Top Rock Salt 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 78% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.
Brands
10 falling
Sellers
51
Top-5 brand share
90%
Top 20: 100%
Top-5 click share
78%
Top 20: 100%
Open market
7%
- Brand 132%
- Brand 222%
- Brand 319%
- Brand 414%
- Brand 54%
- Brand 63%
- Open — no brand owns it (4 brands, 7%)
Demand
Rock Salt search demand
Weekly searches over the year, seasonality beneath. Pick a range.
Peak months: Jan, Nov · busiest ÷ quietest = 6.4×
Search terms
Top Rock Salt search terms shoppers use
The exact words shoppers type, with yearly volume, growth, and conversion.
- rock salt183K/yr
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- salt for weed killing8K/yr
- bags of salt for weeds5K/yr
- salt rock6K/yr
- garden salt for killing weeds3K/yr
- bag of salt3K/yr
- rocksalt6K/yr
- road salt14K/yr
- grit salt84K/yr
Reviews and returns
What reviews say buyers love and hate about Rock Salt
We read the reviews and the return reasons for every product selling here.
“Apparently it doesnt get damp like the finer salt”
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.
17 topics
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