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Caution Tape

Fail

Prices span $1.54–$12.80, mostly outside the sweet spot, so Caution Tape is a Fail.

Flapen Score
41
41 / 100
Ranks 1,774 of 2,225 DIY & Tools niches · −8 vs the category median of 49
Market size
£23K/yr34K searches / yr
90-day growth
-10.2%search demand this quarter
Competition
73%top-5 click share · 14 brands · 17 sellers

Flapen Score

Caution Tape against its category

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

41Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Caution Tape market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Caution Tape 34K times last year and spent an estimated £23K. The top 5 brands take 79% of clicks. Flapen scores it 41 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 11.6% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 34K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 11.6% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -10.2% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £23K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
34K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-10.2%
Conversion, latest week
11.6%
Market size, estimated
£23Ka year
Top search term
caution tape30K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £5.88.

Listings sell for £5.88 on average, from £1.54 to £12.80. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 4K to 5K a year. The average listing sells 250 to 500 of them. At £5.88 that is £1K to £3K a year per listing.

Average price
£5.88under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£1.54–£12.80
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
4K–5K
Units per listing a year
250–500
Revenue per listing a year
£1K–£3K
Returns
0.5%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

87% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 93% ship with Prime. On an average day, 5.8% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #70 within Safety & Security. It carries 427 reviews at 4.45 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
87%
Prime listings
93%
Out of stock, average day
5.8%
Average rank
#70in Safety & Security
Average rating
4.45 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
427per listing
Listings tracked
15

04 · Newcomers

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

1 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 47 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
1
Successful launches
0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
47 months

Products

Top Caution 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 73% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.

£0£2K£5K£7K£9K1101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

14 falling

Sellers

17

Est. top-5 brand share

79%

Top 20: 100%

Est. top-5 click share

73%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

16%

  • Daucin40%
  • ArmaKit13%
  • Berry12%
  • Storm&Lighthouse8%
  • brackit6%
  • Jsdoin5%
  • Open — no brand owns it (8 brands, 16%)

Demand

Caution Tape search demand

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

4K3KSpike '26NovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJul

Peak months: Nov · busiest ÷ quietest = 3.4× · 9 of 12 months tracked

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Caution Tape

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

40%of positive reviews mention “Adhesion/Stickiness”
54%of negative reviews mention “Adhesion/Stickiness”
0.5%of orders come back
“Not sticky enough”
A buyer, on “Adhesion/Stickiness”54% 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.

19 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Caution 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