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Corded Telephone

Fail

Shoppers spend only $53K a year here, so Corded Telephone is a Fail.

Flapen Score
37
37 / 100
Ranks 1,159 of 1,488 Electronics & Photo niches · −7 vs the category median of 44
Market size
£53K/yr59K searches / yr
90-day growth
-24.6%search demand this quarter
Competition
74%top-5 click share · 10 brands · 122 sellers

Flapen Score

Corded Telephone against its category

The dotted line is the Electronics & Photo average. Past it, Corded Telephone is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

37Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Corded Telephone market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Corded Telephone 59K times last year and spent an estimated £53K. The top 5 brands take 87% of clicks. Demand peaks in Nov. Flapen scores it 37 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

5.5% of searches ended in a purchase last week.

Shoppers searched for this 59K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. In the latest week, 5.5% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -24.6% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £53K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
59K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-24.6%
Conversion, latest week
5.5%
Market size, estimated
£53Ka year
Peak month
November1.8× the quietest month
Top search term
corded phone14K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £16.27.

Listings sell for £16.27 on average, from £6.74 to £29.46. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 3K to 3K a year. The average listing sells 100 to 250 of them. At £16.27 that is £2K to £4K a year per listing.

Average price
£16.27inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£6.74–£29.46
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
3K–3K
Units per listing a year
100–250
Revenue per listing a year
£2K–£4K
Returns
4.9%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

80% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 1.4% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #25 within Telephones, VoIP & Accessories. It carries 1,644 reviews at 4.15 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
80%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
1.4%
Average rank
#25in Telephones, VoIP & Accessories
Average rating
4.15 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
1,644per listing
Listings tracked
15

04 · Newcomers

Amazon counts 1 of last year's 1 launches as successful.

1 products launched here in the last 12 months. Amazon counts 1 of them as successful launches, new products that hit its first-year sales bar. The brands on the shelf have sold for 61 months on average, so the names here are established.

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

Products

Top Corded Telephone 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 74% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.

£0£5K£11K£16K£21K1101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

10 falling

Sellers

122

Top-5 brand share

87%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

74%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

10%

  • VTech40%
  • BT28%
  • FAYAZ9%
  • Uvital5%
  • Doro4%
  • OrcoW3%
  • Open — no brand owns it (4 brands, 10%)

Demand

Corded Telephone search demand

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

2K2KSpike '24Black Friday '24Prime Day '25Black Friday '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Nov · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.8×

Search terms

Top Corded Telephone search terms shoppers use

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

  • corded phone14K/yr
  • corded telephone9K/yr
  • corded phones landline6K/yr
  • corded telephone landline5K/yr
  • wall mounted telephone4K/yr
  • analogue phone4K/yr
  • wall phone4K/yr
  • wall mounted phone3K/yr
  • landline phone corded5K/yr
  • corded analogue & dect phones3K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Corded Telephone

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

Complain

Functionality-Overall18%−0.17

Doesn't work

It didn't work

Doesn't work at all

Quality-Overall17%−0.05

Not great quality

Looks cheaply made

Yet again another item on Amazon without any quality control

Instructions/User Manual/Troubleshooting8%−0.05

the installations instructions could be a lot better

Hopeless instructions

no idiot proof instructions

Connectivity-Overall8%−0.08

Does not connect to Virgin as advised - needs adaptor

Not suitable for broadband /wifi connection

Phone Lead connection cuts out / have to disconnect

Noise Level7%+0.17

Ring tone not that loud at its loudest

loud also

The ring is really loud - Ive never heard one as loud as this

Love

Value For Money23%+1.36

Good value

Worth the money

Value for money

Ease Of Use22%+1.40

Ease of Use

easy to use phone plus answering machine

straightforward as you can get

Advertised Vs Actual Product12%+0.58

does what it's supposed to do

It did the job

It works exactly as advertised

Quality-Overall9%−0.05

A very good quality phone

Great price and excellent quality

Good quality construction/build

Touch/Button Controls7%−0.03

big buttons and simple to preset

She finds the functions easy to use & the buttons are nice & big

The menu is easy to use with almost all of the facilities simple and intuitive to access and use

Return

4.9% Return rate 8% Fixable by listing

Compatibility-Overall21%█▆▅▄▅▆
Functionality-Overall16%▅▅█▅▆▆

Doesn't work

It didn't work

Doesn't work at all

Connectivity-Overall14%▇█▆▅▆▆

Does not connect to Virgin as advised - needs adaptor

Not suitable for broadband /wifi connection

Phone Lead connection cuts out / have to disconnect

Size-Overall7%▂▃▄▇█▄
Defective Material/Parts6%▇▄▅▅▆█

FAQ

Common Corded Telephone questions

Answered from the same tracked data.