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Flexible Conduit

Fail

Shoppers spend only $29K a year here, so Flexible Conduit is a Fail.

Flapen Score
48
48 / 100
Ranks 1,131 of 2,225 DIY & Tools niches · −1 vs the category median of 49
Market size
£29K/yr88K searches / yr
90-day growth
+22.2%search demand this quarter
Competition
45%top-5 click share · 19 brands · 30 sellers

Flapen Score

Flexible Conduit against its category

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

48Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Flexible Conduit market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Flexible Conduit 88K times last year and spent an estimated £29K. The top 5 brands take 69% of clicks. Flapen scores it 48 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

2.7% of searches ended in a purchase last week.

Shoppers searched for this 88K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. In the latest week, 2.7% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +22.2% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £29K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
88K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+22.2%
Conversion, latest week
2.7%
Market size, estimated
£29Ka year
Top search term
outdoor cable trunking16K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £11.92.

Listings sell for £11.92 on average, from £3.90 to £23.97. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 3K to 3K a year. The average listing sells 0 to 100 of them. At £11.92 that is £0 to £1K a year per listing.

Average price
£11.92under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£3.90–£23.97
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
3K–3K
Units per listing a year
0–100
Revenue per listing a year
£0–£1K
Returns
1.9%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is ads.

91% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 91% ship with Prime. On an average day, 3.3% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #86 within Building Supplies. It carries 1,475 reviews at 4.46 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
91%
Prime listings
91%
Out of stock, average day
3.3%
Average rank
#86in Building Supplies
Average rating
4.46 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
1,475per listing
Listings tracked
33

04 · Newcomers

Amazon counts 0 of last year's 6 launches as successful.

6 products launched here in the last 12 months. Amazon counts 0 of them as successful launches, new products that hit its first-year sales bar. The brands on the shelf have sold for 37 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
37 months

Products

Top Flexible Conduit 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 45% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

£0£1K£3K£4K£6K1101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

19 rising

Sellers

30

Top-5 brand share

69%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

45%

Top 20: 84%

Open market

27%

  • ArmaKit27%
  • TEW16%
  • On1shelf14%
  • BMF DIRECT8%
  • MUKCHAP5%
  • NZNSML4%

Demand

Flexible Conduit search demand

Weekly searches over the year. Pick a range.

2K1KMay '26May '26May '26Jun '26Jun '26Jun '26Jun '26Jul '26Jul '26Jul '26

Search terms

Top Flexible Conduit search terms shoppers use

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

  • outdoor cable trunking16K/yr
  • flexible conduit15K/yr
  • split conduit7K/yr
  • underground cable ducting6K/yr
  • 25mm conduit6K/yr
  • conduit pipe4K/yr
  • flexible conduit 20mm5K/yr
  • outdoor cable conduit5K/yr
  • 20mm flexible conduit5K/yr
  • 25mm flexible conduit4K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Flexible Conduit

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

Complain

Adhesion/Stickiness18%−0.10

Adhesive not good

Not a very good adhesive

no adhesive, overall useless product

Quality-Overall13%+1.36

Poor quality, most of the parts didn't fit together at all

Not the best quality

Poor quality - not fit for purpose

Flatness9%−0.08

has no way of staying down flat on the floor

Item would not lay flat on the floor

Wouldn't lay flat

Material Quality7%−0.05

2 metres of poor quality plastic

Poor quality plastic

Thickness7%−0.06

the plastic is abit on the thin side

Refunded this was too small to run any thickness of wire in this conduit

Love

Quality-Overall26%+1.36

Excellent conduit that is perfect for my needs

Great product for my needs

Good quality

Ease Of Use15%+1.23

Easy to use

Easy to cut

Easy to work with

Advertised Vs Actual Product12%+0.43

Product is exactly as advertised

As described

Just what I needed

Adhesion/Stickiness9%−0.10

the adhesive is strong

Sticks well to the wall

Sticks and clips together well

Value For Money8%+0.26

Good value

Good value for money

good value

Return

1.9% Return rate 73% Fixable by listing

Size-Overall58%▆▆▅█▆▇

The trunking itself is not that wide

Smaller dia than I intended

Strength5%▃██▆▅▇

Brittle plastic

It's not hugely robust

Compatibility-Overall4%▂█▇▁▄▂
Quality-Overall4%█▅▄▂▁▃

Poor quality, most of the parts didn't fit together at all

Not the best quality

Poor quality - not fit for purpose

Functionality-Overall4%▅█▃▄█▆

FAQ

Common Flexible Conduit questions

Answered from the same tracked data.