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3d Printer Accessories

Maybe

Returns run at only 0.5% of orders. But demand is soft, at -13.9% this quarter, so 3d Printer Accessories is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
56
56 / 100
Top 21% of 740 Business, Industry & Science niches · +7 vs the category median of 49
Market size
£164K/yr306K searches / yr
90-day growth
-13.9%search demand this quarter
Competition
41%top-5 click share · 22 brands · 30 sellers

Flapen Score

3d Printer Accessories against its category

The dotted line is the Business, Industry & Science average. Past it, 3d Printer Accessories is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

56Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The 3d Printer Accessories market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for 3d Printer Accessories 306K times last year and spent an estimated £164K. The top 5 brands take 55% of clicks. Demand peaks in Jan–Nov–Dec. Flapen scores it 56 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

2.4% of searches ended in a purchase last week.

Shoppers searched for this 306K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. In the latest week, 2.4% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -13.9% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £164K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
306K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-13.9%
Conversion, latest week
2.4%
Market size, estimated
£164Ka year
Peak month
December3.9× the quietest month
Top search term
3d printer accessories124K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £22.75.

Listings sell for £22.75 on average, from £5.55 to £40.98. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 6K to 8K a year. The average listing sells 100 to 250 of them. At £22.75 that is £2K to £6K a year per listing.

Average price
£22.75inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£5.55–£40.98
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
£2K–£6K
Returns
0.5%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, 7.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #215 within 3D Printing & Scanning. It carries 598 reviews at 4.50 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
97%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
7.0%
Average rank
#215in 3D Printing & Scanning
Average rating
4.50 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
598per listing
Listings tracked
30

04 · Newcomers

Amazon counts 1 of last year's 11 launches as successful.

11 products launched here in the last 12 months. Amazon counts 1 of them as successful launches, new products that hit its first-year sales bar. The brands on the shelf have sold for 26 months on average, so a newcomer is not facing entrenched names.

Launched, last 12 months
11
Successful launches
1Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
26 months

Products

Top 3d Printer Accessories products & what they sell for

Every tracked product: its share of the shelf, its reviews, and its price.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take 41% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

£0£8K£16K£25K£33K1101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

22 falling

Sellers

30

Top-5 brand share

55%

Top 20: 98%

Top-5 click share

41%

Top 20: 87%

Open market

39%

  • Creality29%
  • HIMOMO7%
  • Kamtop7%
  • YIRGJERON6%
  • AOBOPLE6%
  • BILIPLE6%

Demand

3d Printer Accessories search demand

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

10K6KPrime Day '25Spike '25Holiday '25Spike '26DecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJun

Peak months: Jan, Nov, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 3.9×

Search terms

Top 3d Printer Accessories search terms shoppers use

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

  • 3d printer accessories124K/yr
  • 3d printing44K/yr
  • 3d printing accessories26K/yr
  • 3d print19K/yr
  • 3d printing tools21K/yr
  • 3d printer tool kit26K/yr
  • 3d printer tools17K/yr
  • 3d printing tool kit8K/yr
  • 3d print tools5K/yr
  • 3d printer cleaning kit5K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about 3d Printer Accessories

What buyers praise, what they complain about and why they send it back, from the reviews.

Complain

Quality-Overall14%−0.06

Poor quality control

Questionable quality

I was expecting it to be cheap quality

Ease Of Use7%+0.25

Not easy to use

Not as user friendly as I had hoped

I found this super fiddly to use

Brightness/Shine/Glow6%−0.05

it did not glow at all

Poor glow

Glow in the dark is basically non existant

Strength5%−0.02

flimsy kind I suspected they'd be

the craft knife is pretty flimsy

The not-so-good: some of the smaller tools are flimsy

Durability5%−0.03

Faulty after One Use

everything pulled apart

Had a small break on a model which I held in place for several minutes then carefully wrapped with tape for 3 days to allow for full curing - removed the tape

Love

Value For Money23%+2.07

Excellent value for money

Well worth the money

Good for the money

Quality-Overall15%−0.06

Good variety of tools

Good well made tool

Good quality items

Adhesion/Stickiness9%+0.92

Sticks like, well, really good

Great glue

Sticks really well

Advertised Vs Actual Product9%+0.27

Exactly as described

it does the job

Does everything you need

Ease Of Use8%+0.25

Easy to use

A handy kit to get

making the process more convenient

Return

0.5% Return rate 17% Fixable by listing

Functionality-Overall25%▅▁█▅▆▆
Size-Overall12%▅█▄▅▇▆

It is actually very very small

A very small item, very small, almost unusable

One thing I was surprised about when it arrived was how small it actually is

Quality-Overall12%▆█▃▃▁▄

Poor quality control

Questionable quality

I was expecting it to be cheap quality

Defective Material/Parts10%▅▁█▄▄▆
Compatibility-Overall8%▂▇▁▃▇█

FAQ

Common 3d Printer Accessories questions

Answered from the same tracked data.