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Test Tubes

Maybe

The average product has only 118 reviews. But prices span $3.03–$13.37, mostly outside the sweet spot, so Test Tubes is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
53
53 / 100
Top 31% of 740 Business, Industry & Science niches · +4 vs the category median of 49
Market size
£43K/yr93K searches / yr
90-day growth
-4.7%search demand this quarter
Competition
45%top-5 click share · 26 brands · 35 sellers

Flapen Score

Test Tubes against its category

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

53Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Test Tubes market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Test Tubes 93K times last year and spent an estimated £43K. The top 5 brands take 48% of clicks. Demand peaks in Oct. Flapen scores it 53 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

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

Shoppers searched for this 93K 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 -4.7% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £43K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
93K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-4.7%
Conversion, latest week
6.8%
Market size, estimated
£43Ka year
Peak month
October1.5× the quietest month
Top search term
test tubes37K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £6.86.

Listings sell for £6.86 on average, from £3.03 to £13.37. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 4K to 5K a year. The average listing sells 100 to 250 of them. At £6.86 that is £686 to £2K a year per listing.

Average price
£6.86under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£3.03–£13.37
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
4K–5K
Units per listing a year
100–250
Revenue per listing a year
£686–£2K
Returns
1.4%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

69% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 86% ship with Prime. On an average day, 5.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #72 within Lab & Scientific Products. It carries 118 reviews at 4.30 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
69%
Prime listings
86%
Out of stock, average day
5.0%
Average rank
#72in Lab & Scientific Products
Average rating
4.30 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
118per listing
Listings tracked
29

04 · Newcomers

0 of last year's 6 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

6 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 40 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
6
Successful launches
0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
40 months

Products

Top Test Tubes products & what they sell for

The products selling here, as shoppers see them on Amazon. Shelf share and sales are our estimates.

Prices and ratings read from Amazon on Jul 21, 2026. The live listing can differ.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take an estimated 45% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

£0£2K£4K£7K£9K1101001K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)1 product missing review or click data not plotted

Brands

26 falling

Sellers

35

Est. top-5 brand share

48%

Top 20: 93%

Est. top-5 click share

45%

Top 20: 89%

Open market

46%

  • LABUYI22%
  • Tabanzhe7%
  • Rowwait6%
  • soamazing6%
  • QWORK6%
  • ASelected6%

Demand

Test Tubes search demand

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

3K2KSpike '24Prime Day '25Spike '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Oct · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.5×

Search terms

Top Test Tubes search terms shoppers use

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

  • test tubes37K/yr
  • plastic test tubes12K/yr
  • test tube10K/yr
  • test tubes with lids9K/yr
  • plastic tubes with lids8K/yr
  • glass test tubes6K/yr
  • plastic test tubes with lids6K/yr
  • glass tubes3K/yr
  • tubes with lids1K/yr
  • test lab tubes1K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Test Tubes

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

26%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
37%of negative reviews mention “Size-Overall”
1.4%of orders come back
“they won't fit”
A buyer, on “Size-Overall”37% 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.

16 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Test Tubes questions

Answered from the same tracked data.

Figures on this page are estimates modeled from public Amazon pages and third-party keyword data. Amazon does not supply them, and no connected seller's data is used. How we handle Amazon data