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Plasterboard Tape

prices mostly outside the sweet spot ($2.95–$9.88) — Plasterboard Tape doesn't clear our bar today.

Flapen Score

36
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Market size 25Growth 16Conversion 96Competition 4Returns 98Price range 0Avg price 16Brand share 5Review moat 67Quality gap 48
This niche Category average

Is Plasterboard Tape profitable on Amazon?

According to Flapen's Amazon United Kingdom niche tracking, Plasterboard Tape is a £99K/yr Amazon United Kingdom market (123K searches/yr). The top 5 brands hold 98% of demand. Verdict: Skip it — 36/100.

Plasterboard 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 -17.9% over the last 90 days and 14.1% of searches end in a purchase.

£99K

revenue / yr

Units sold / yr20K
Search volume / yr-17.9%123K
Conversion rate14.1%
Avg price£5.69

Who owns the niche?

The top 5 brands hold 98% of demand, so 2% of the market is open.

2%

open market share

Brands · sellers6 · 54
Top-5 product click share96%
Open market2%
Avg brand age41 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 · 7 products

Sponsored placement100%
New entrants (1y)2· 1 succeeded
Avg rating4.5★
Avg reviews813

Top Plasterboard 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 capture 96% of clicks — a locked-up shelf that new listings rarely crack.

£0£10K£20K£30K£39K101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

6 falling

Sellers

54

Top-5 brand share

98%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

96%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

0%

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  • Everbuild13%
  • SopimusZ10%
  • JKG2%
  • ROLLINGDOG2%

Plasterboard Tape demand & seasonality

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

Volume123KCVR14.1%Products7Brands6Top 5 Brands98%OOS Rate0.0%Rating4.5★Reviews813Avg BSR#1,439
5K4KSpike '26Nov '25Dec '25Feb '26Mar '26Apr '26May '26Jun '26

Top Plasterboard Tape search terms shoppers use

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

  • scrim tape46K/yr
  • plasterboard tape21K/yr
  • mesh tape11K/yr
  • scrim tape for cracks5K/yr
  • drywall tape9K/yr
  • paintable tape to cover cracks6K/yr
  • mesh tape for wall filling5K/yr
  • plastering tape5K/yr
  • jointing tape5K/yr
  • scrim tape plastering5K/yr

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Plasterboard Tape

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

What buyers love

89% of reviews
Adhesion/Stickiness24%

Great adhesive and worked well

Quality-Overall21%

Quality and ease of use

Value For Money13%

GREAT VALUE

Ease Of Use12%

Easy to use

Advertised Vs Actual Product6%

This surpassed my expectations

What buyers complain about

75% of reviews
Adhesion/Stickiness64%

Couldn't get it to stick well at all

Advertised Vs Actual Product3%

So this is very misleading

Quality-Overall3%

RUBBISH

Size-Overall2%

I was lucky the patch was small

Functionality-Overall2%

But this is surely not how it's supposed to work

Plasterboard Tape return rate & reasons

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

0.4%

Return rate

18%

Fixable by listing

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

1Adhesion/Stickiness
40%
2Functionality-Overall
12%
3Size-Overall
10%
4Advertised Vs Actual Product
6%
5Thin
5%

Common Plasterboard Tape questions

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

Flapen scores Plasterboard Tape 36/100 on Amazon United Kingdom — Skip it. The niche generates £99K/yr across 7 tracked products. 1 of 2 products launched in the last 360 days are still selling. Search demand moved -17.9% over the last 90 days.
Plasterboard Tape buyers on Amazon United Kingdom complain most about Adhesion/Stickiness, Advertised Vs Actual Product, Quality-Overall, the themes mined from the niche's reviews. Its return rate is 0.4%.