How competitive is the Contour Plus Test Strips niche on Amazon United Kingdom?

4 brands and 26 sellers compete in Contour Plus Test Strips on Amazon United Kingdom. The top 5 Contour Plus Test Strips products take 97% of clicks and its top 5 brands hold 100% of demand.

What do buyers complain about in Contour Plus Test Strips?

Contour Plus Test Strips buyers on Amazon United Kingdom complain most about Error Popup, the themes mined from the niche's reviews. Its return rate is 0.2%.

What does it cost to enter the Contour Plus Test Strips niche?

Contour Plus Test Strips sells for £11.67 on average on Amazon United Kingdom, outside our $15–$100 sweet spot. Listings span £9.98–£16.58. The average incumbent carries 163 reviews — the moat a new listing must climb.

Contour Plus Test Strips

brand-locked demand (top 5 brands take 100% of clicks) — Contour Plus Test Strips doesn't clear our bar today.

Signals Low Review Barrier

Flapen Score

Skip it

This niche Category average

Is Contour Plus Test Strips profitable on Amazon?

According to Flapen's Amazon United Kingdom niche tracking, Contour Plus Test Strips is a £61K/yr Amazon United Kingdom market (41K searches/yr). The top 5 brands hold 100% of demand. Verdict: Skip it — 35/100.

Contour Plus Test Strips: the Amazon niche in one read

Everything a seller checks before entering, in three answers.

Is the demand real?

Not really. Search demand moved -1.3% over the last 90 days and 12.7% of searches end in a purchase.

£61K

revenue / yr

Units sold / yr6K

Search volume / yr-1.3%41K

Conversion rate12.7%

Avg price£11.67

Who owns the niche?

The top 5 brands hold 100% of demand, so 0% of the market is open.

open market share

Brands · sellers4 · 26

Top-5 product click share97%

Open market0%

Avg brand age83 months

Is there a way in?

Listing quality. The average product page scores 0/100 on content standards. Incumbents average 4.9★ — the gap to enter on.

0/100

page quality · 6 products

Top Contour Plus Test Strips 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

Contour Plus Strips 50 Count

Price: £10.90
Rating: 4.5/5
Reviews: 364
Age: 5y ago

Bayer Contour PLUS Diabetic Blood Glucose Test Strips 50

Price: £10.54
Rating: 4.7/5
Reviews: 597
Age: 12y ago

Contour Plus Strips 50 Count

Price: £10.72
Rating: 5.0/5
Reviews: 6
Age: 4y ago

Generic Plus Blood Glucose Test Strips 50 Count No Coding Required

Price: £16.58
Rating: 5.0/5
Reviews: 5
Age: 1y ago

Generic Blood Glucose Test Strips 50 Count Compatible with Contour Contour USB Contour Link and Didget Meters

Price: £11.33
Rating: 5.0/5
Reviews: 1
Age: 1y ago

Newest

by launch date

Generic Plus Blood Glucose Test Strips 50 Count No Coding Required

Price: £16.58
Rating: 5.0/5
Reviews: 5
Age: 1y ago

Generic Blood Glucose Test Strips 50 Count Compatible with Contour Contour USB Contour Link and Didget Meters

Price: £11.33
Rating: 5.0/5
Reviews: 1
Age: 1y ago

Contour Plus Strips 50 Count

Price: £10.72
Rating: 5.0/5
Reviews: 6
Age: 4y ago

Contour Plus Strips 50 Count

Price: £10.90
Rating: 4.5/5
Reviews: 364
Age: 5y ago

generic New Blood Contour Test Strips x 50 only Used for Contour Meter with Our Box

Price: £9.98
Rating: 5.0/5
Reviews: 2
Age: 12y ago

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products capture 97% of clicks — a locked-up shelf that new listings rarely crack.

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

Brands

4 flat

Sellers

Top-5 brand share

100%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

97%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

DOCLOGE54%
Bayer Contour20%
Generic15%
generc12%

Contour Plus Test Strips demand & seasonality

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

Volume41KCVR12.7%Products6Brands4Top 5 Brands100%OOS Rate10.3%Rating4.9★Reviews163Avg BSR#127

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.3×

Top Contour Plus Test Strips search terms shoppers use

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

contour plus test strips22K/yr +1.5%14.1% conv.
contour plus blue test strips10K/yr -9.5%12.1% conv.
contour plus5K/yr +0.9%6.5% conv.
contour plus blue4K/yr +4.5%1.1% conv.

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Contour Plus Test Strips

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

What buyers love

100% of reviews

Quality-Overall40%

“Great producl”

Advertised Vs Actual Product23%

“They do what they need to do”

Size-Overall13%

“Good purchase, fit for purpose”

Ease Of Use10%

“Handy & Essential”

Efficiency7%

“Worked perfectly in my wifes machine”

What buyers complain about

100% of reviews

Error Popup100%

“Hopeless, none of them worked, just kept getting error messages”

Contour Plus Test Strips return rate & reasons

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

0.2%

Return rate

13%

Fixable by listing

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

1Compatibility-Overall

54%

2Functionality-Overall

13%

3Size-Overall

4Defective Material/Parts

5Accuracy-Overall

Common Contour Plus Test Strips questions

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

Flapen scores Contour Plus Test Strips 35/100 on Amazon United Kingdom — Skip it. The niche generates £61K/yr across 6 tracked products. Search demand moved -1.3% over the last 90 days.