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Hair Pins for Buns

Fail

Prices span $1.55–$6.07, mostly outside the sweet spot, so Hair Pins for Buns is a Fail.

Flapen Score
48
48 / 100
Top 44% of 2,481 Beauty niches · +1 vs the category median of 47
Market size
£58K/yr206K searches / yr
90-day growth
-4.8%search demand this quarter
Competition
52%top-5 click share · 23 brands · 30 sellers

Flapen Score

Hair Pins for Buns against its category

The dotted line is the Beauty average. Past it, Hair Pins for Buns is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

48Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Hair Pins for Buns market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Hair Pins for Buns 206K times last year and spent an estimated £58K. The top 5 brands take 60% of clicks. Flapen scores it 48 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 6.8% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 206K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 6.8% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -4.8% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £58K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
206K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-4.8%
Conversion, latest week
6.8%
Market size, estimated
£58Ka year
Peak month
March1.2× the quietest month
Top search term
hair pin88K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £4.16.

Listings sell for £4.16 on average, from £1.55 to £6.07. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 10K to 13K a year. The average listing sells 250 to 500 of them. At £4.16 that is £1K to £2K a year per listing.

Average price
£4.16under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£1.55–£6.07
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
10K–13K
Units per listing a year
250–500
Revenue per listing a year
£1K–£2K
Returns
0.2%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

90% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 7.4% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #80 within Hair Styling Accessories. It carries 1,025 reviews at 4.42 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
90%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
7.4%
Average rank
#80in Hair Styling Accessories
Average rating
4.42 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
1,025per listing
Listings tracked
29

04 · Newcomers

1 of last year's 4 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

4 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 23 months on average, so a newcomer is not facing entrenched names.

Launched, last 12 months
4
Successful launches
1Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
23 months

Products

Top Hair Pins for Buns 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 52% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

Brands

23 falling

Sellers

30

Top-5 brand share

60%

Top 20: 97%

Top-5 click share

52%

Top 20: 92%

Open market

35%

  • Brand 117%
  • Brand 216%
  • Brand 310%
  • Brand 49%
  • Brand 58%
  • Brand 65%

Demand

Hair Pins for Buns search demand

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

6K4KHoliday '24Spike '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.2×

Search terms

Top Hair Pins for Buns search terms shoppers use

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

  • hair pin88K/yr
  • hair pins for buns26K/yr
  • hairpin33K/yr
  • bun pins18K/yr
  • u shaped hair pins14K/yr
  • hairpins for women14K/yr
  • hair up clips4K/yr
  • small hair pins4K/yr
  • u pins hair4K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Hair Pins for Buns

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

25%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
24%of negative reviews mention “Suitability Short Hair”
0.2%of orders come back
“Wont stay put in my hair”
A buyer, on “Suitability Short Hair”24% 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.

20 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Hair Pins for Buns questions

Answered from the same tracked data.