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Fragile Tape

prices mostly outside the sweet spot ($2.96–$9.70) — Fragile Tape doesn't clear our bar today.

Flapen Score

44
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Market size 47Growth 22Conversion 100Competition 36Returns 99Price range 0Avg price 14Brand share 30Review moat 24Quality gap 40
This niche Category average

Is Fragile Tape profitable on Amazon?

According to Flapen's Amazon United Kingdom niche tracking, Fragile Tape is a £253K/yr Amazon United Kingdom market (218K searches/yr). The top 5 brands hold 87% of demand. Verdict: Skip it — 44/100.

Fragile Tape: the Amazon niche in one read

Everything a seller checks before entering, in three answers.

Is the demand real?

Not really. Search demand moved -6.4% over the last 90 days and 23.4% of searches end in a purchase.

£253K

revenue / yr

Units sold / yr60K
Search volume / yr-6.4%218K
Conversion rate23.4%
Avg price£4.95

Who owns the niche?

The top 5 brands hold 87% of demand, so 13% of the market is open.

13%

open market share

Brands · sellers11 · 13
Top-5 product click share63%
Open market13%
Avg brand age50 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 · 17 products

Sponsored placement82%
New entrants (1y)0· 0 succeeded
Avg rating4.5★
Avg reviews5,581

Top Fragile Tape 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£25K£51K£76K£101K101001K10K100K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

11 rising

Sellers

13

Top-5 brand share

87%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

63%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

10%

  • Merrimen35%
  • Double Dragon30%
  • Stick Well13%
  • Packatape5%
  • Trojan Packaging4%
  • Triplast3%
  • Open — no brand owns it (5 brands, 10%)

Fragile Tape demand & seasonality

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

Volume218KCVR23.4%Products17Brands11Top 5 Brands87%OOS Rate8.7%Rating4.5★Reviews5,581Avg BSR#32
5K4KSepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.3×

Top Fragile Tape search terms shoppers use

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

  • fragile tape160K/yr
  • fragile tape for packing boxes25K/yr
  • fragile parcel tape4K/yr
  • fragile packing tape11K/yr
  • fragile11K/yr
  • fragile tape roll4K/yr
  • packing tape fragile3K/yr

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Fragile Tape

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

What buyers love

92% of reviews
Adhesion/Stickiness31%

Good adhesion

Quality-Overall19%

Excellent product

Value For Money16%

Excellent value

Advertised Vs Actual Product9%

Exactly as described

Strength6%

holds on well

What buyers complain about

74% of reviews
Adhesion/Stickiness36%

Very sticky

Strength11%

Great tape for boxing fragile

Quality-Overall9%

Extremely poor quality tapes

Durability6%

Break to easy then takes ages to get next bit off

Thickness4%

Quite thin

Fragile Tape return rate & reasons

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

0.1%

Return rate

20%

Fixable by listing

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

1Adhesion/Stickiness
40%
2Advertised Vs Actual Product
13%
3Weight Heavy
13%
4Quality-Overall
13%
5Size-Overall
7%

Common Fragile Tape questions

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

Flapen scores Fragile Tape 44/100 on Amazon United Kingdom — Skip it. The niche generates £253K/yr across 17 tracked products. Search demand moved -6.4% over the last 90 days.
Search demand for Fragile Tape on Amazon United Kingdom is steady year-round — the busiest month runs 1.3× the quietest.