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Compressed Towels

Maybe

An estimated 0.2% of orders come back. But prices span $2.97–$11.96, mostly outside the sweet spot, so Compressed Towels is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
57
57 / 100
Top 11% of 2,481 Beauty niches · +10 vs the category median of 47
Market size
£32K/yr84K searches / yr
90-day growth
+93.8%search demand this quarter
Competition
42%top-5 click share · 22 brands · 35 sellers

Flapen Score

Compressed Towels against its category

The dotted line is the Beauty average. Past it, Compressed Towels is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

57Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Compressed Towels market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Compressed Towels 84K times last year and spent an estimated £32K. The top 5 brands take 55% of clicks. Flapen scores it 57 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 5.7% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 84K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 5.7% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +93.8% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £32K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
84K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+93.8%
Conversion, latest week
5.7%
Market size, estimated
£32Ka year
Top search term
compressed towels32K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £6.74.

Listings sell for £6.74 on average, from £2.97 to £11.96. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 5K to 6K a year. The average listing sells 100 to 250 of them. At £6.74 that is £674 to £2K a year per listing.

Average price
£6.74under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£2.97–£11.96
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
5K–6K
Units per listing a year
100–250
Revenue per listing a year
£674–£2K
Returns
0.2%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

86% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 3.9% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #127 within Face. It carries 427 reviews at 4.63 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
86%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
3.9%
Average rank
#127in Face
Average rating
4.63 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
427per listing
Listings tracked
28

04 · Newcomers

3 of last year's 8 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

8 products launched here in the last 12 months. 3 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 34 months on average, so a newcomer is not facing entrenched names.

Launched, last 12 months
8
Successful launches
3Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
34 months

Products

Top Compressed Towels 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 42% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

Brands

22 rising

Sellers

35

Top-5 brand share

55%

Top 20: 98%

Top-5 click share

42%

Top 20: 91%

Open market

39%

  • Brand 120%
  • Brand 211%
  • Brand 39%
  • Brand 47%
  • Brand 57%
  • Brand 66%

Search terms

Top Compressed Towels search terms shoppers use

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

  • compressed towels32K/yr
  • compressed face cloth8K/yr
  • compressed towel9K/yr
  • compressed face cloths4K/yr
  • compressed face towel7K/yr
  • compressed towels tablets11K/yr
  • travel face cloth4K/yr
  • magic towel5K/yr
  • travel flannel4K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Compressed Towels

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

22%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
30%of negative reviews mention “Size-Overall”
0.2%of orders come back
“A lot bigger than I anticipated”
A buyer, on “Size-Overall”30% 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.

18 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Compressed Towels questions

Answered from the same tracked data.