Q Tips
FailPrices span $1.00–$8.16, mostly outside the sweet spot, so Q Tips is a Fail.
- Flapen Score
- 32 / 100Ranks 611 of 638 Baby Products niches · −15 vs the category median of 4732
- Market size
- £102K/yr106K searches / yr
- 90-day growth
- -6.5%search demand this quarter
- Competition
- 97%top-5 click share · 6 brands · 43 sellers
Flapen Score
Q Tips against its category
The dotted line is the Baby Products average. Past it, Q Tips is stronger. Inside it, weaker.
Market
The Q Tips market on Amazon at a glance
Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Q Tips 106K times last year and spent an estimated £102K. The top 5 brands take 97% of clicks. Flapen scores it 32 out of 100, a Fail.
01 · Demand
An estimated 32.1% of those searches ended in a purchase.
Shoppers searched for this 106K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 32.1% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -6.5% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £102K a year.
- Searches, last 12 months
- 106K
- Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
- -6.5%
- Conversion, latest week
- 32.1%
- Market size, estimated
- £102Ka year
- Peak month
- January1.3× the quietest month
- Top search term
- q tips48K searches a year
02 · Price
A sale here is worth £3.00.
Listings sell for £3.00 on average, from £1.00 to £8.16. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 30K to 40K a year. The average listing sells 5,000 to 6,000 of them. At £3.00 that is £15K to £18K a year per listing.
- Average price
- £3.00under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
- Price range
- £1.00–£8.16
- Amazon United Kingdom median price
- £12.12across 27,606 niches
- Units sold a year
- 30K–40K
- Units per listing a year
- 5,000–6,000
- Revenue per listing a year
- £15K–£18K
- Returns
- 0.0%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%
03 · Entry bar
The bar here is reviews.
83% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #8 within Health & Baby Care. It carries 10,709 reviews at 4.63 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.
- Sponsored listings
- 83%
- Prime listings
- 100%
- Out of stock, average day
- 0.0%
- Average rank
- #8in Health & Baby Care
- Average rating
- 4.63 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
- Average reviews
- 10,709per 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 97% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.
Brands
6 falling
Sellers
43
Top-5 brand share
97%
Top 20: 100%
Top-5 click share
97%
Top 20: 100%
Open market
0%
- Brand 151%
- Brand 218%
- Brand 315%
- Brand 47%
- Brand 56%
- Brand 63%
Demand
Q Tips search demand
Weekly searches over the year, seasonality beneath. Pick a range.
No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.3×
Search terms
Top Q Tips search terms shoppers use
The exact words shoppers type, with yearly volume, growth, and conversion.
- q tips48K/yr
- qtips17K/yr
- q tips cotton buds18K/yr
- qtips cotton buds8K/yr
- q tip6K/yr
- cotton sticks4K/yr
- ear sticks3K/yr
- q-tips3K/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.
“Reduced quality”
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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