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Black Duct Tape

Fail

Products sell for $6.25 on average, outside the sweet spot, so Black Duct Tape is a Fail.

Flapen Score
44
44 / 100
Ranks 1,524 of 2,225 DIY & Tools niches · −5 vs the category median of 49
Market size
£168K/yr106K searches / yr
90-day growth
+3.5%search demand this quarter
Competition
67%top-5 click share · 10 brands · 95 sellers

Flapen Score

Black Duct Tape against its category

The dotted line is the DIY & Tools average. Past it, Black Duct Tape is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

44Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Black Duct Tape market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Black Duct Tape 106K times last year and spent an estimated £168K. The top 5 brands take 87% of clicks. Flapen scores it 44 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 25.3% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 106K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 25.3% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +3.5% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £168K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
106K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+3.5%
Conversion, latest week
25.3%
Market size, estimated
£168Ka year
Peak month
October1.4× the quietest month
Top search term
black duct tape29K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £6.25.

Listings sell for £6.25 on average, from £2.52 to £18.04. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 25K to 30K a year. The average listing sells 1,500 to 2,000 of them. At £6.25 that is £9K to £13K a year per listing.

Average price
£6.25under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£2.52–£18.04
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
25K–30K
Units per listing a year
1,500–2,000
Revenue per listing a year
£9K–£13K
Returns
0.2%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

69% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 3.3% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #21 within Adhesives & Sealers. It carries 6,732 reviews at 4.48 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
69%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
3.3%
Average rank
#21in Adhesives & Sealers
Average rating
4.48 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
6,732per listing
Listings tracked
16

04 · Newcomers

1 of last year's 2 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

2 products launched here in the last 12 months. 1 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 55 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
2
Successful launches
1Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
55 months

Products

Top Black Duct Tape 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 22, 2026. The live listing can differ.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take an estimated 67% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

£0£17K£34K£50K£67K101001K10K100K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

10 falling

Sellers

95

Est. top-5 brand share

87%

Top 20: 100%

Est. top-5 click share

67%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

9%

  • Duck45%
  • G4GADGET14%
  • Fyguard13%
  • Generic9%
  • Stick Well5%
  • GORILLA4%
  • Open — no brand owns it (4 brands, 9%)

Demand

Black Duct Tape search demand

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

3K2KSpike '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.4×

Search terms

Top Black Duct Tape search terms shoppers use

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

  • black duct tape29K/yr
  • black gaffer tape20K/yr
  • black duct tape strong waterproof8K/yr
  • black duck tape11K/yr
  • gaffer tape black6K/yr
  • duct tape black7K/yr
  • black duck tape heavy duty6K/yr
  • black gaffer tape heavy duty waterproof4K/yr
  • duck tape black5K/yr
  • gaffa tape black5K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Black Duct Tape

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

36%of positive reviews mention “Adhesion/Stickiness”
39%of negative reviews mention “Adhesion/Stickiness”
0.2%of orders come back
“Poor adhesive”
A buyer, on “Adhesion/Stickiness”39% 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.

15 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Black Duct Tape 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