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Negative Scanner

Fail

Buyers convert on only 1.4% of searches, so Negative Scanner is a Fail.

Flapen Score
42
42 / 100
Ranks 498 of 1,028 Computers & Accessories niches · on the category median
Market size
£216K/yr146K searches / yr
90-day growth
+1.6%search demand this quarter
Competition
61%top-5 click share · 10 brands · 37 sellers

Flapen Score

Negative Scanner against its category

The dotted line is the Computers & Accessories average. Past it, Negative Scanner is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

42Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Negative Scanner market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Negative Scanner 146K times last year and spent an estimated £216K. The top 5 brands take 83% of clicks. Flapen scores it 42 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

1.4% of searches ended in a purchase last week.

Shoppers searched for this 146K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. In the latest week, 1.4% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +1.6% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £216K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
146K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+1.6%
Conversion, latest week
1.4%
Market size, estimated
£216Ka year
Peak month
December1.6× the quietest month
Top search term
memory vault box slide scanner8K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £103.47.

Listings sell for £103.47 on average, from £10.08 to £395.96. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 2K to 3K a year. The average listing sells 100 to 250 of them. At £103.47 that is £10K to £26K a year per listing.

Average price
£103.47above the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£10.08–£395.96
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
2K–3K
Units per listing a year
100–250
Revenue per listing a year
£10K–£26K
Returns
4.4%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is ads.

100% 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 #14 within Scanners & Accessories. It carries 1,371 reviews at 4.04 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
100%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
9.3%
Average rank
#14in Scanners & Accessories
Average rating
4.04 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
1,371per listing
Listings tracked
18

04 · Newcomers

Amazon counts 5 of last year's 7 launches as successful.

7 products launched here in the last 12 months. Amazon counts 5 of them as successful launches, new products that hit its first-year sales bar. The brands on the shelf have sold for 43 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
7
Successful launches
5Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
43 months

Products

Top Negative Scanner 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 61% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

£0£22K£43K£65K£86K101001K10K100K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

10 falling

Sellers

37

Top-5 brand share

83%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

61%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

13%

  • DigitConvert29%
  • KODAK27%
  • DigitPro13%
  • DIGITNOW8%
  • Magnasonic5%
  • Plustek5%
  • Open — no brand owns it (4 brands, 13%)

Demand

Negative Scanner search demand

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

4K3KSpike '24Holiday '24Prime Day '25Spike '25Black Friday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.6×

Search terms

Top Negative Scanner search terms shoppers use

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

  • memory vault box slide scanner8K/yr
  • film scanner27K/yr
  • negative scanner34K/yr
  • slide scanner25K/yr
  • 35mm film scanner10K/yr
  • convert slides to digital9K/yr
  • negative to digital photo converter9K/yr
  • film scanners8K/yr
  • 35mm slide scanners to digital7K/yr
  • slide scanner for old slides to pc5K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Negative Scanner

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

Complain

Quality-Overall11%−0.04

Poor quality product

what it did show on its screen was disappointingly low quality

Whatever quality control they have in place is not sufficient

Software/Application8%−0.06

App does not work

Software sometimes crashes

Beware of the Software

Functionality-Overall6%−0.10

doesnt easily work for slides

- You can not produce lossless files. eg TIFFs

Didn't work for me

Ease Of Use6%+1.82

actually quite hard to open

Difficult to use

this took me a bit of time

Value For Money5%+1.08

bit overpriced. in my opinion

cost of it was too much

Overpriced underwhelmed

Love

Ease Of Use27%+1.82

Very easy to use

Really straightforward to use

Easy to operate

Value For Money15%+1.08

Excellent value

Good price

Reasonable price

Quality-Overall8%−0.04

Good quality and ease of use

Excellent quality

Build quality feels decent for home use

Display Resolution6%+0.45

Good resolution and it takes quite big SD cards

Very clear screen

Image quality is good

Advertised Vs Actual Product6%+0.33

Works as advertised

Does exactly what it says it will do

Exactly as described

Return

4.4% Return rate 14% Fixable by listing

Functionality-Overall22%█▆▅▆▇▇

doesnt easily work for slides

- You can not produce lossless files. eg TIFFs

Didn't work for me

Quality-Overall15%▆▇▄█▅▄

Poor quality product

what it did show on its screen was disappointingly low quality

Whatever quality control they have in place is not sufficient

Compatibility-Overall9%▆▆█▃▅▄
Size-Overall7%▂▄█▅▇▇
Defective Material/Parts6%▃▅█▆▅▇

FAQ

Common Negative Scanner questions

Answered from the same tracked data.