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Cash Box

soft demand (-6.8% this quarter) — Cash Box doesn't clear our bar today.

Flapen Score

48
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Market size 48Growth 22Conversion 73Competition 37Returns 95Price range 30Avg price 27Brand share 58Review moat 45Quality gap 38
This niche Category average

Is Cash Box profitable on Amazon?

According to Flapen's Amazon United Kingdom niche tracking, Cash Box is a £262K/yr Amazon United Kingdom market (415K searches/yr). The top 5 brands hold 70% of demand. Verdict: Skip it — 48/100.

Cash Box: the Amazon niche in one read

Everything a seller checks before entering, in three answers.

Is the demand real?

Not really. Search demand moved -6.8% over the last 90 days and 6.8% of searches end in a purchase.

£262K

revenue / yr

Units sold / yr30K
Search volume / yr-6.8%415K
Conversion rate6.8%
Avg price£9.27

Who owns the niche?

The top 5 brands hold 70% of demand, so 30% of the market is open.

30%

open market share

Brands · sellers14 · 41
Top-5 product click share63%
Open market30%
Avg brand age40 months

Is there a way in?

Listing quality. The average product page scores 0/100 on content standards. Incumbents average 4.5★ — the gap to enter on.

0/100

page quality · 20 products

Sponsored placement80%
New entrants (1y)1· 1 succeeded
Avg rating4.5★
Avg reviews1,992

Top Cash Box products & what they sell for

Every tracked product — its share of the shelf, its review moat, and what it sells for.

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take 63% of clicks — established leaders, but buyers still shop beyond them.

£0£26K£52K£79K£105K101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

14 falling

Sellers

41

Top-5 brand share

70%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

63%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

22%

  • REQUISITE NEEDS25%
  • Crinwaki15%
  • Amazon Basics11%
  • Cathedral Products10%
  • ACCURATE9%
  • H S8%

Cash Box demand & seasonality

Weekly search volume, with the niche's key stats alongside.

Volume415KCVR6.8%Products20Brands14Top 5 Brands70%OOS Rate2.9%Rating4.5★Reviews1,992Avg BSR#19
10K6KSepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.2×

Top Cash Box search terms shoppers use

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

  • cash box158K/yr
  • cash tin36K/yr
  • cash boxes with keys44K/yr
  • money box with key22K/yr
  • lockable money box24K/yr
  • petty cash tin21K/yr
  • money tin with key16K/yr
  • small lock box15K/yr
  • petty cash box8K/yr
  • cash boxes11K/yr

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Cash Box

What buyers mention most, as a share of all reviews.

What buyers love

89% of reviews
Advertised Vs Actual Product20%

As Advertised

Quality-Overall18%

Excellent product

Value For Money13%

Good value for money

Size-Overall12%

just the right size

Strength8%

very sturdy

What buyers complain about

85% of reviews
Size-Overall53%

Not large

Locking Mechanism12%

Wont lock

Quality-Overall5%

Really poor quality

Advertised Vs Actual Product4%

not as described at all totally fuming

Strength3%

The key was so brittle that it snapped in the lock straight away

Cash Box return rate & reasons

Why buyers send it back, as a share of all return requests.

1.0%

Return rate

85%

Fixable by listing

The "fixable" share counts expectation-mismatch reasons — size, look, advertised-vs-actual — that better copy and images address.

1Size-Overall
80%
2Locking Mechanism
7%
3Defective Material/Parts
2%
4Quality-Overall
1%
5Color
1%

Common Cash Box questions

The questions sellers ask about this niche, answered from the tracked metrics.

Flapen scores Cash Box 48/100 on Amazon United Kingdom — Skip it. The niche generates £262K/yr across 20 tracked products. 1 of 1 products launched in the last 360 days are still selling. Search demand moved -6.8% over the last 90 days.
Search demand for Cash Box on Amazon United Kingdom is steady year-round — the busiest month runs 1.2× the quietest.