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Black Death Mega Sour Sweets

Fail

The top 5 brands take 100% of clicks, so Black Death Mega Sour Sweets is a Fail.

Flapen Score
42
42 / 100
Ranks 2,003 of 2,976 Grocery niches · −4 vs the category median of 46
Market size
£31K/yr85K searches / yr
90-day growth
+9.6%search demand this quarter
Competition
78%top-5 click share · 5 brands · 9 sellers

Flapen Score

Black Death Mega Sour Sweets against its category

The dotted line is the Grocery average. Past it, Black Death Mega Sour Sweets is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

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

Market

The Black Death Mega Sour Sweets market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Black Death Mega Sour Sweets 85K times last year and spent an estimated £31K. All 5 brands take every click. Demand peaks in Nov–Dec. Flapen scores it 42 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

4.0% of searches ended in a purchase last week.

Shoppers searched for this 85K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. In the latest week, 4.0% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +9.6% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £31K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
85K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+9.6%
Conversion, latest week
4.0%
Market size, estimated
£31Ka year
Peak month
December2.4× the quietest month
Top search term
black death sour candy29K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £9.05.

Listings sell for £9.05 on average, from £5.42 to £22.49. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 3K to 4K a year. The average listing sells 100 to 250 of them. At £9.05 that is £905 to £2K a year per listing.

Average price
£9.05under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£5.42–£22.49
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
3K–4K
Units per listing a year
100–250
Revenue per listing a year
£905–£2K
Returns
0.0%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is ads.

100% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 80% ship with Prime. On an average day, 10.9% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #9 within Confectionery. It carries 229 reviews at 3.70 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
100%
Prime listings
80%
Out of stock, average day
10.9%
Average rank
#9in Confectionery
Average rating
3.70 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
229per listing
Listings tracked
15

04 · Newcomers

Amazon counts 0 of last year's 3 launches as successful.

3 products launched here in the last 12 months. Amazon counts 0 of them as successful launches, new products that hit its first-year sales bar. The brands on the shelf have sold for 49 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
3
Successful launches
0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
49 months

Products

Top Black Death Mega Sour Sweets 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 78% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.

£0£3K£6K£9K£12K1101001K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

5 flat

Sellers

9

Top-5 brand share

100%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

78%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

0%

  • Barnetts59%
  • MyCandyShop29%
  • Devils Chip Challenge5%
  • Retro Sweet Kings4%
  • iBrandz3%

Demand

Black Death Mega Sour Sweets search demand

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

5K3KSpike '25Holiday '25Spike '26DecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJun

Peak months: Nov, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.4×

Search terms

Top Black Death Mega Sour Sweets search terms shoppers use

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

  • black death sour candy29K/yr
  • mega sour sweets12K/yr
  • worlds sourest sweets9K/yr
  • barnetts mega sour sweets6K/yr
  • sourest candy in the world3K/yr
  • sour balls5K/yr
  • super sour sweets challenge4K/yr
  • most sour sweets in the world3K/yr
  • world sourest candy1K/yr
  • mr simms black death sweets2K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Black Death Mega Sour Sweets

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

Complain

Sour55%+4.47

Actually Sour

Sour sweets

A sour coating that is gone after 10 seconds

Size-Overall12%−0.36

THESE WERE ABSOLUTELY GROTESQUE 🤮 These were absolutely grotesque

Very small

a tiny bag for £6.99

Value For Money9%−0.10

Not worth the money

Terrible for the price

Waste of money

Advertised Vs Actual Product6%−0.18

FALSE ADVERTISING

Completely different to what it says on the description

Much smaller than it looks in photo

Sweetness5%−0.01

theyre hard sweets

the sweet itself didn't actually taste that great

Love

Sour49%+4.47

Sour

If your able to keep it in your mouth once the sour taste wears off it'd a nice sweet

Good variety of sour sweets my son was very happy with this

Sweetness11%−0.01

it was sweet

Sweets

In fact after the sour 10 seconds it turns very sweet

Value For Money8%−0.10

Excellent value

they are worth the money

Great value for money

Taste-Overall5%−0.03

They're delicious

Oh my, they really do taste Aweful

Blend/Ratio3%+0.16

A good mixture

FAQ

Common Black Death Mega Sour Sweets questions

Answered from the same tracked data.