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Perm Rods

Maybe

The products selling today average only 4.1★. But prices span $3.30–$11.20, mostly outside the sweet spot, so Perm Rods is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
50
50 / 100
Top 34% of 2,481 Beauty niches · +3 vs the category median of 47
Market size
£35K/yr121K searches / yr
90-day growth
-4.0%search demand this quarter
Competition
43%top-5 click share · 27 brands · 31 sellers

Flapen Score

Perm Rods against its category

The dotted line is the Beauty average. Past it, Perm Rods is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

50Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Perm Rods market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Perm Rods 121K times last year and spent an estimated £35K. The top 5 brands take 64% of clicks. Flapen scores it 50 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 4.7% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 121K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 4.7% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -4.0% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £35K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
121K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-4.0%
Conversion, latest week
4.7%
Market size, estimated
£35Ka year
Top search term
perm rods68K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £6.07.

Listings sell for £6.07 on average, from £3.30 to £11.20. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 6K to 8K a year. The average listing sells 100 to 250 of them. At £6.07 that is £607 to £2K a year per listing.

Average price
£6.07under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£3.30–£11.20
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
6K–8K
Units per listing a year
100–250
Revenue per listing a year
£607–£2K
Returns
1.5%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is ads.

97% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 9.3% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #184 within Styling Tools. It carries 397 reviews at 4.06 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
97%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
9.3%
Average rank
#184in Styling Tools
Average rating
4.06 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
397per listing
Listings tracked
38

04 · Newcomers

0 of last year's 13 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

13 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 24 months on average, so a newcomer is not facing entrenched names.

Launched, last 12 months
13
Successful launches
0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
24 months

Products

Top Perm Rods 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 43% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

Brands

27 rising

Sellers

31

Top-5 brand share

64%

Top 20: 94%

Top-5 click share

43%

Top 20: 81%

Open market

31%

  • Brand 115%
  • Brand 215%
  • Brand 314%
  • Brand 412%
  • Brand 58%
  • Brand 65%

Demand

Perm Rods search demand

Weekly searches over the year. Pick a range.

3K2KApr '26Apr '26May '26May '26Jun '26Jun '26Jul '26

Search terms

Top Perm Rods search terms shoppers use

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

  • perm rods68K/yr
  • perming rods15K/yr
  • perm rollers12K/yr
  • perm rods for short hair10K/yr
  • perm curlers6K/yr
  • small perm rods4K/yr
  • perm rods for long hair5K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Perm Rods

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

29%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
15%of negative reviews mention “Stretchability/Expandability/Elasticity”
1.5%of orders come back
“The elastic is not strong enough”
A buyer, on “Stretchability/Expandability/Elasticity”15% 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.

22 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Perm Rods questions

Answered from the same tracked data.