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Primer Paint

Fail

The top 5 brands take 93% of clicks, so Primer Paint is a Fail.

Flapen Score
42
42 / 100
Ranks 1,704 of 2,225 DIY & Tools niches · −7 vs the category median of 49
Market size
£250K/yr336K searches / yr
90-day growth
-10.9%search demand this quarter
Competition
69%top-5 click share · 8 brands · 73 sellers

Flapen Score

Primer Paint against its category

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

42Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Primer Paint market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Primer Paint 336K times last year and spent an estimated £250K. The top 5 brands take 93% of clicks. Flapen scores it 42 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 6.9% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 336K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 6.9% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -10.9% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £250K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
336K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-10.9%
Conversion, latest week
6.9%
Market size, estimated
£250Ka year
Peak month
October1.7× the quietest month
Top search term
primer paint67K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £10.78.

Listings sell for £10.78 on average, from £5.99 to £20.27. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 20K to 25K a year. The average listing sells 1,000 to 1,250 of them. At £10.78 that is £11K to £13K a year per listing.

Average price
£10.78under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£5.99–£20.27
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
20K–25K
Units per listing a year
1,000–1,250
Revenue per listing a year
£11K–£13K
Returns
1.0%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

76% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 82% ship with Prime. On an average day, 5.1% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #92 within Painting Supplies, Tools & Wall Treatments. It carries 5,070 reviews at 4.52 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
76%
Prime listings
82%
Out of stock, average day
5.1%
Average rank
#92in Painting Supplies, Tools & Wall Treatments
Average rating
4.52 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
5,070per listing
Listings tracked
17

04 · Newcomers

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

1 products launched here in the last 12 months. 1 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 59 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

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

Products

Top Primer Paint 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 69% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

£0£25K£50K£75K£100K101001K10K100K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

8 rising

Sellers

73

Est. top-5 brand share

93%

Top 20: 100%

Est. top-5 click share

69%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

3%

  • Johnstone's29%
  • RUSTINS28%
  • Leyland21%
  • THE ONE10%
  • Polar Specialist Coatings5%
  • Zinsser4%
  • Open — no brand owns it (2 brands, 3%)

Demand

Primer Paint search demand

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

8K6KSpike '25Prime Day '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.7×

Search terms

Top Primer Paint search terms shoppers use

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

  • primer paint67K/yr
  • wood primer55K/yr
  • undercoat paint for wood21K/yr
  • paint primer20K/yr
  • wood primer undercoat white19K/yr
  • undercoat paint23K/yr
  • white undercoat paint for wood17K/yr
  • exterior wood primer8K/yr
  • wall primer13K/yr
  • bonding primer10K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Primer Paint

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

18%of positive reviews mention “Paint Quality”
23%of negative reviews mention “Paint Quality”
1.0%of orders come back
“Paint leaked”
A buyer, on “Paint Quality”23% 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.

16 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Primer Paint 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