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Brown Pla

Maybe

Returns run at only 0.4% of orders. But demand is soft, at -6.0% this quarter, so Brown Pla is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
54
54 / 100
Top 27% of 740 Business, Industry & Science niches · +5 vs the category median of 49
Market size
£93K/yr53K searches / yr
90-day growth
-6.0%search demand this quarter
Competition
40%top-5 click share · 13 brands · 17 sellers

Flapen Score

Brown Pla against its category

The dotted line is the Business, Industry & Science average. Past it, Brown Pla is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

54Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Brown Pla market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Brown Pla 53K times last year and spent an estimated £93K. The top 5 brands take 82% of clicks. Demand peaks in Apr–Nov. Flapen scores it 54 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

13.2% of searches ended in a purchase last week.

Shoppers searched for this 53K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. In the latest week, 13.2% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -6.0% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £93K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
53K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-6.0%
Conversion, latest week
13.2%
Market size, estimated
£93Ka year
Peak month
November2.2× the quietest month
Top search term
brown pla19K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £13.26.

Listings sell for £13.26 on average, from £8.34 to £30.85. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 6K to 8K a year. The average listing sells 100 to 250 of them. At £13.26 that is £1K to £3K a year per listing.

Average price
£13.26under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£8.34–£30.85
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
£1K–£3K
Returns
0.4%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

87% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 10.8% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #39 within 3D Printing & Scanning. It carries 3,011 reviews at 4.50 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
87%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
10.8%
Average rank
#39in 3D Printing & Scanning
Average rating
4.50 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
3,011per listing
Listings tracked
38

04 · Newcomers

Amazon counts 0 of last year's 2 launches as successful.

2 products launched here in the last 12 months. Amazon counts 0 of them as successful launches, new products that hit its first-year sales bar. The brands on the shelf have sold for 40 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
2
Successful launches
0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
40 months

Products

Top Brown Pla 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 only 40% of clicks. An open shelf where new products get seen.

£0£3K£6K£8K£11K1101001K10K100K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

13 rising

Sellers

17

Top-5 brand share

82%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

40%

Top 20: 88%

Open market

12%

  • ELEGOO33%
  • SUNLU26%
  • 3DHoJor9%
  • eSUN7%
  • TECBEARS7%
  • Deeplee6%
  • Open — no brand owns it (7 brands, 12%)

Demand

Brown Pla search demand

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

2K1KPrime Day '25Spike '25Black Friday '25Spike '26MayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJun

Peak months: Apr, Nov · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.2×

Search terms

Top Brown Pla search terms shoppers use

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

  • brown pla19K/yr
  • brown pla filament12K/yr
  • brown filament7K/yr
  • pla brown7K/yr
  • brown filament pla5K/yr
  • pla filament brown4K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Brown Pla

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

Complain

Color21%−0.09

is slightly more orangey than I expected

Color is different to the presented

Wrong colour

Durability14%−0.11

very bad, breaks easily

Falls apart

Quality-Overall11%+2.03

not as good as Hyper PLA

Terrible quality, have tried to run two 12hr prints now and it has failed around 7 hours into each one due to tangles,

Print Quality9%+1.22

Do not buy all they do is block your printer quality is dismal was a waste of money

Ease Of Use5%−0.03

However, the spool was not properly wrapped, which made it a bit difficult to use at the beginning

Filament isnt as easy to use as Creality Hyper PLA

Love

Quality-Overall28%+2.03

Great performing filament

I am extremely happy with the quality of this filament

Excellent quality

Print Quality25%+1.22

Great quality prints

worth the money great prints

every print has come out perfect

Color14%−0.09

Great colour

Fantastic range of colors

wide choice of colours and types

Value For Money12%+1.16

It also is not the most expensive which means I feel less guilty about going nuts and buying lots

Value for money

Good value

Advertised Vs Actual Product4%−0.05

Works as advertised

Photo shows the advert

Return

0.4% Return rate 40% Fixable by listing

Color27%▃▅▇█▇▃

is slightly more orangey than I expected

Color is different to the presented

Wrong colour

Functionality-Overall13%▅▃▅▄▆█
Compatibility-Overall11%▇█▁▃▃▄
Size-Overall7%▁▁▇▅█▄
Print Quality6%▁█▁▆▃▁

Do not buy all they do is block your printer quality is dismal was a waste of money

FAQ

Common Brown Pla questions

Answered from the same tracked data.