How competitive is the Flying Saucer Sweets niche on Amazon United Kingdom?

15 brands and 28 sellers compete in Flying Saucer Sweets on Amazon United Kingdom. The top 5 Flying Saucer Sweets products take 66% of clicks and its top 5 brands hold 75% of demand.

What do buyers complain about in Flying Saucer Sweets?

Flying Saucer Sweets buyers on Amazon United Kingdom complain most about Value For Money, Size-Overall, Taste-Overall, the themes mined from the niche's reviews. Its return rate is 0.0%.

What does it cost to enter the Flying Saucer Sweets niche?

Flying Saucer Sweets sells for £10.40 on average on Amazon United Kingdom, outside our $15–$100 sweet spot. Listings span £0.77–£21.66. The average incumbent carries 331 reviews — the moat a new listing must climb.

Flying Saucer Sweets

Flying Saucer Sweets shows low returns (0.0%), but soft demand (-12.8% this quarter) keeps it on the watch list.

Flapen Score

Worth a look

This niche Category average

Is Flying Saucer Sweets profitable on Amazon?

According to Flapen's Amazon United Kingdom niche tracking, Flying Saucer Sweets is a £196K/yr Amazon United Kingdom market (218K searches/yr). The top 5 brands hold 75% of demand. Demand peaks in Nov–Dec. Verdict: Worth a look — 53/100.

Flying Saucer Sweets: the Amazon niche in one read

Everything a seller checks before entering, in three answers.

Is the demand real?

Worth a look. Search demand moved -12.8% over the last 90 days and 8.6% of searches end in a purchase.

£196K

revenue / yr

Units sold / yr25K

Search volume / yr-12.8%218K

Conversion rate8.6%

Avg price£10.40

Who owns the niche?

The top 5 brands hold 75% of demand, so 25% of the market is open.

25%

open market share

Brands · sellers15 · 28

Top-5 product click share66%

Open market25%

Avg brand age40 months

Is there a way in?

Listing quality. The average product page scores 0/100 on content standards. Incumbents average 4.1★ — the gap to enter on.

0/100

page quality · 16 products

Top Flying Saucer Sweets 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

Frisbee Flying Saucers Snack 625g Assorted Flavors

Price: £17.17
Rating: 4.7/5
Reviews: 211
Age: 2y ago

Flying Saucer Sweets UFO Retro Pick n Mix

Price: £6.71
Rating: 4.2/5
Reviews: 45
Age: 2y ago

Original Flying Saucer Sweets Flying Saucers Retro Sweets Gift Jar By Berrymans Sweet Shop - Classic Sweets Traditional Taste.

Price: £7.95
Rating: 3.9/5
Reviews: 547
Age: 7y ago

Flying Saucers Sweets Bulk Tub 375g Fizzy Fruit Flavour Citric Wafers with Sherbet Filling Retro Gluten Free Party Bag Fillers Pick & Mix Birthday & Wedding Candy Boxed Treatz

Price: £14.03
Rating: 4.5/5
Reviews: 43
Age: 1y ago

Flying Saucer Sweets Flying Saucers 100 Gram Bulk Bag 100g Assorted Sweet Pick and Mix for Parties Gifts and Sharing.

Price: £7.37
Rating: 4.1/5
Reviews: 357
Age: 3y ago

Newest

by launch date

Flying Saucer Sweets 100g Resealable Pouch - Retro Sherbet-Filled UFO Sweets for Party Bags Pick and Mix Sweet Hampers & Stocking Fillers Vegetarian

Price: £7.97
Rating: 3.8/5
Reviews: 4
Age: 3mo ago

GROBITS - Flying Saucers 65g Retro Sweets Gift Jar Classic Fizzy Candy Traditional Sweet Shop Pick & Mix Sweet Sharing Tub for Birthdays Parties & Gift Giving

Price: £9.74
Rating: 1.0/5
Reviews: 2
Age: 5mo ago

Candy Realms Flying Saucers 36 g (Pack of 12)

Price: £10.69
Rating: 4.2/5
Reviews: 11
Age: 1y ago

Flying Saucer Sweets 100g Retro Vegan Candy in Resealable Grip-Lock Bag Assorted Apple Strawberry Orange Lemon Flavours Gluten-Free Pick & Mix for Parties Gifts Sharing Sour UFO Treats

Price: £7.13
Rating: 4.0/5
Reviews: 16
Age: 1y ago

Flying Saucers Sweets Bulk Tub 375g Fizzy Fruit Flavour Citric Wafers with Sherbet Filling Retro Gluten Free Party Bag Fillers Pick & Mix Birthday & Wedding Candy Boxed Treatz

Price: £14.03
Rating: 4.5/5
Reviews: 43
Age: 1y ago

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take 66% of clicks — established leaders, but buyers still shop beyond them.

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

Brands

15 rising

Sellers

Top-5 brand share

75%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

66%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

21%

Berrymans21%
CD20%
Sweet Treat Gifting Co.15%
Boxed Treatz9%
MyCandyShop9%
FUAUFAS5%

Flying Saucer Sweets demand & seasonality

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

Volume218KCVR8.6%Products16Brands15Top 5 Brands75%OOS Rate3.6%Rating4.1★Reviews331Avg BSR#20

Peak months: Nov, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 3.5×

Top Flying Saucer Sweets search terms shoppers use

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

flying saucer sweets132K/yr -24.1%7.3% conv.
flying saucers55K/yr +14.8%8.1% conv.
flying saucers sweets19K/yr -3.2%6.4% conv.
flying saucers sweets 1kg8K/yr +1.0%7.0% conv.
flying saucer5K/yr -4.5%3.5% conv.

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Flying Saucer Sweets

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

What buyers love

93% of reviews

Taste-Overall29%

“Tasted great”

Sweetness20%

“The most addictive sweets ever”

Value For Money17%

“Great value for money”

Quality-Overall10%

“As usual no complaints”

Flavor5%

“The individual saucers were consistent in shape and flavour, with a variety of colours”

What buyers complain about

83% of reviews

Value For Money28%

“Over priced”

Size-Overall20%

“The bag is fairly large”

Taste-Overall17%

“cheap nasty very little of sherbet to even taste it wont be buying again”

Durability6%

“although they don't last very long”

Chunk/Clump/Collection4%

“the sherbet inside was in a solid lump not loose”

Common Flying Saucer Sweets questions

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

Flapen scores Flying Saucer Sweets 53/100 on Amazon United Kingdom — Worth a look. The niche generates £196K/yr across 16 tracked products. 0 of 2 products launched in the last 360 days are still selling. Search demand moved -12.8% over the last 90 days.