How competitive is the Menthol Balls for Cigarettes niche on Amazon United Kingdom?

3 brands and 7 sellers compete in Menthol Balls for Cigarettes on Amazon United Kingdom. The top 5 Menthol Balls for Cigarettes products take 68% of clicks and its top 5 brands hold 96% of demand.

What do buyers complain about in Menthol Balls for Cigarettes?

Menthol Balls for Cigarettes buyers on Amazon United Kingdom complain most about Size-Overall, Quality-Overall, Thickness, the themes mined from the niche's reviews. Its return rate is 0.1%.

What does it cost to enter the Menthol Balls for Cigarettes niche?

Menthol Balls for Cigarettes sells for £8.07 on average on Amazon United Kingdom, outside our $15–$100 sweet spot. Listings span £3.89–£13.27. The average incumbent carries 208 reviews — the moat a new listing must climb.

Menthol Balls for Cigarettes

prices mostly outside the sweet spot ($3.89–$13.27) — Menthol Balls for Cigarettes doesn't clear our bar today.

Flapen Score

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This niche Category average

Is Menthol Balls for Cigarettes profitable on Amazon?

According to Flapen's Amazon United Kingdom niche tracking, Menthol Balls for Cigarettes is a £70K/yr Amazon United Kingdom market (76K searches/yr). The top 5 brands hold 96% of demand. Demand peaks in Jul–Aug. Verdict: Skip it — 46/100.

Menthol Balls for Cigarettes: the Amazon niche in one read

Everything a seller checks before entering, in three answers.

Is the demand real?

Not really. Search demand moved +22.4% over the last 90 days and 11.4% of searches end in a purchase.

£70K

revenue / yr

Units sold / yr10K

Search volume / yr+22.4%76K

Conversion rate11.4%

Avg price£8.07

Who owns the niche?

The top 5 brands hold 96% of demand, so 4% of the market is open.

open market share

Brands · sellers3 · 7

Top-5 product click share68%

Open market4%

Avg brand age55 months

Is there a way in?

Listing quality. The average product page scores 0/100 on content standards. Incumbents average 4.4★ — the gap to enter on.

0/100

page quality · 14 products

Top Menthol Balls for Cigarettes products & what they sell for

Every tracked product — its share of the shelf, its review moat, and what it sells for.

Top sellers

by 90-day click share

Menthol Balls for Cigarettes - 1000 Blue Crush Crushballs + Applicator

Price: £12.06
Rating: 4.3/5
Reviews: 146
Age: 4y ago

Menthol Balls for Cigarettes - 300 Blue Crush Crushballs (3 x 100)

Price: £8.79
Rating: 4.4/5
Reviews: 159
Age: 4y ago

Menthol Balls for Cigarettes - 1000 Green Mint Crushballs + Applicator

Price: £12.07
Rating: 4.4/5
Reviews: 66
Age: 4y ago

Menthol Balls for Cigarettes - 100 Green Menthol Crushballs + Applicator

Price: £3.89
Rating: 4.3/5
Reviews: 251
Age: 5y ago

icMentol - 200pcs Menthol Ball Menthol Capsules Crushballs Crush Ball (Blue Ice Mint)

Price: £4.84
Rating: 4.9/5
Reviews: 17
Age: 1y ago

Newest

by launch date

icMentol - 200pcs Menthol Ball Menthol Capsules Crushballs Crush Ball (Blue Ice Mint)

Price: £4.84
Rating: 4.9/5
Reviews: 17
Age: 1y ago

Menthol Balls for Cigarettes - 1000 Blue Crush Crushballs + Applicator

Price: £12.06
Rating: 4.3/5
Reviews: 146
Age: 4y ago

Menthol Balls for Cigarettes - 300 Blue Crush Crushballs (3 x 100)

Price: £8.79
Rating: 4.4/5
Reviews: 159
Age: 4y ago

Menthol Balls for Cigarettes - 1000 Green Mint Crushballs + Applicator

Price: £12.07
Rating: 4.4/5
Reviews: 66
Age: 4y ago

Menthol Balls for Cigarettes - 1000 Black Ice Crushballs + Applicator

Price: £12.23
Rating: 4.7/5
Reviews: 43
Age: 4y ago

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take 68% of clicks — established leaders, but buyers still shop beyond them.

Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

3 falling

Sellers

Top-5 brand share

96%

Top 20: 96%

Top-5 click share

68%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

PrisTeam86%
icmentol7%
--4%
MrBlastin3%

Menthol Balls for Cigarettes demand & seasonality

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

Volume76KCVR11.4%Products14Brands3Top 5 Brands96%OOS Rate5.1%Rating4.4★Reviews208Avg BSR#0

Peak months: Jul, Aug · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.7×

Top Menthol Balls for Cigarettes search terms shoppers use

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

menthol balls for cigarettes32K/yr +37.9%11.1% conv.
crushballs for cigarettes19K/yr +8.8%7.2% conv.
crush balls for cigarettes10K/yr +14.8%5.4% conv.
crushballs7K/yr +42.2%4.7% conv.
mint crush balls8K/yr -6.5%3.9% conv.

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Menthol Balls for Cigarettes

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

What buyers love

75% of reviews

Strength50%

“Good Strength”

Advertised Vs Actual Product13%

“But do the job as advertised”

Value For Money13%

“Decent quantity for the price”

What buyers complain about

80% of reviews

Size-Overall40%

“Much smaller than the ad suggests”

Quality-Overall20%

“Not good at all”

Thickness20%

“Only complaint is the stick that they could be a little thicker as they snap after a while”

Menthol Balls for Cigarettes return rate & reasons

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

0.1%

Return rate

17%

Fixable by listing

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

1Quality-Overall

33%

2Functionality-Overall

17%

3Leak-Proof

17%

4Color

17%

5Product Condition

17%

Common Menthol Balls for Cigarettes questions

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

Flapen scores Menthol Balls for Cigarettes 46/100 on Amazon United Kingdom — Skip it. The niche generates £70K/yr across 14 tracked products. Search demand moved +22.4% over the last 90 days.