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Single Socket

Fail

Prices span $1.79–$12.26, mostly outside the sweet spot, so Single Socket is a Fail.

Flapen Score
40
40 / 100
Ranks 1,848 of 2,225 DIY & Tools niches · −9 vs the category median of 49
Market size
£45K/yr85K searches / yr
90-day growth
-17.4%search demand this quarter
Competition
66%top-5 click share · 11 brands · 38 sellers

Flapen Score

Single Socket against its category

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

40Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Single Socket market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Single Socket 85K times last year and spent an estimated £45K. The top 5 brands take 83% of clicks. Demand peaks in Nov. Flapen scores it 40 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 11.5% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 85K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 11.5% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -17.4% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £45K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
85K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-17.4%
Conversion, latest week
11.5%
Market size, estimated
£45Ka year
Peak month
November1.5× the quietest month
Top search term
single socket41K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £4.55.

Listings sell for £4.55 on average, from £1.79 to £12.26. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 13K to 15K a year. The average listing sells 250 to 500 of them. At £4.55 that is £1K to £2K a year per listing.

Average price
£4.55under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£1.79–£12.26
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
13K–15K
Units per listing a year
250–500
Revenue per listing a year
£1K–£2K
Returns
1.1%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

44% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 10.2% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #119 within Electrical. It carries 573 reviews at 4.50 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
44%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
10.2%
Average rank
#119in Electrical
Average rating
4.50 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
573per listing
Listings tracked
16

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 52 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
52 months

Products

Top Single Socket 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 66% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

£0£4K£9K£13K£18K1101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

11 falling

Sellers

38

Est. top-5 brand share

83%

Top 20: 100%

Est. top-5 click share

66%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

12%

  • British General43%
  • Status21%
  • LIDER7%
  • SDFIXINGS6%
  • Invero5%
  • Knightsbridge4%
  • Open — no brand owns it (5 brands, 12%)

Demand

Single Socket search demand

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

2K2KSpike '25DecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJun

Peak months: Nov · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.5×

Search terms

Top Single Socket search terms shoppers use

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

  • single socket41K/yr
  • single plug socket22K/yr
  • 1 gang socket5K/yr
  • single wall socket4K/yr
  • single gang socket4K/yr
  • plug socket single3K/yr
  • single sockets3K/yr
  • single switched socket3K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Single Socket

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

25%of positive reviews mention “Socket/Port/Plug”
21%of negative reviews mention “Size-Overall”
1.1%of orders come back
“this socket did not fit”
A buyer, on “Size-Overall”21% 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 Single Socket 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