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Lighter Gas

Fail

Prices span $4.69–$8.81, mostly outside the sweet spot, so Lighter Gas 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
£407K/yr610K searches / yr
90-day growth
-23.2%search demand this quarter
Competition
87%top-5 click share · 8 brands · 14 sellers

Flapen Score

Lighter Gas against its category

The dotted line is the Grocery average. Past it, Lighter Gas is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

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

Market

The Lighter Gas market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Lighter Gas 610K times last year and spent an estimated £407K. The top 5 brands take 90% of clicks. Demand peaks in Jan–Dec. Flapen scores it 42 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 10.7% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 610K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 10.7% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -23.2% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £407K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
610K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-23.2%
Conversion, latest week
10.7%
Market size, estimated
£407Ka year
Peak month
January1.8× the quietest month
Top search term
lighter gas167K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £6.25.

Listings sell for £6.25 on average, from £4.69 to £8.81. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 60K to 80K a year. The average listing sells 4,000 to 5,000 of them. At £6.25 that is £25K to £31K a year per listing.

Average price
£6.25under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£4.69–£8.81
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
60K–80K
Units per listing a year
4,000–5,000
Revenue per listing a year
£25K–£31K
Returns
0.0%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

89% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 11% ship with Prime. On an average day, 4.6% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #629 within Firelighters & Matches. It carries 695 reviews at 4.50 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
89%
Prime listings
11%
Out of stock, average day
4.6%
Average rank
#629in Firelighters & Matches
Average rating
4.50 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
695per listing
Listings tracked
9

04 · Newcomers

1 of last year's 2 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

2 products launched here in the last 12 months. 1 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 53 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
2
Successful launches
1Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
53 months

Products

Top Lighter Gas 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 24, 2026. The live listing can differ.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take an estimated 87% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.

£0£61K£122K£183K£244K101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

8 falling

Sellers

14

Est. top-5 brand share

90%

Top 20: 100%

Est. top-5 click share

87%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

5%

  • LUXTROUS52%
  • Straame20%
  • ZOPPER7%
  • UR CHOICE6%
  • ezkart5%
  • ZYBUX5%
  • Open — no brand owns it (2 brands, 5%)

Demand

Lighter Gas search demand

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

18K13KHoliday '24Spike '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Jan, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.8×

Search terms

Top Lighter Gas search terms shoppers use

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

  • lighter gas167K/yr
  • butane gas refill144K/yr
  • lighter gas refill85K/yr
  • butane39K/yr
  • gas refill for lighter19K/yr
  • gas for lighters refill15K/yr
  • gas lighter refill25K/yr
  • clipper gas19K/yr
  • lighter refill14K/yr
  • gas lighter refill canister5K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Lighter Gas

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

30%of positive reviews mention “Advertised Vs Actual Product”
18%of negative reviews mention “Value For Money”
<0.1%of orders come back, a rate Amazon rounds to zero
“cheaper elsewhere though”
A buyer, on “Value For Money”18% 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.

20 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Lighter Gas 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