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Travel Sickness Bands

Fail

Prices span $2.97–$10.89, mostly outside the sweet spot, so Travel Sickness Bands is a Fail.

Flapen Score
45
45 / 100
Ranks 1,255 of 2,035 Health & Personal Care niches · −3 vs the category median of 48
Market size
£252K/yr368K searches / yr
90-day growth
-0.2%search demand this quarter
Competition
77%top-5 click share · 8 brands · 22 sellers

Flapen Score

Travel Sickness Bands against its category

The dotted line is the Health & Personal Care average. Past it, Travel Sickness Bands is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

45Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Travel Sickness Bands market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Travel Sickness Bands 368K times last year and spent an estimated £252K. The top 5 brands take 92% of clicks. Demand peaks in Jul–Aug. Flapen scores it 45 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

13.5% of searches ended in a purchase last week.

Shoppers searched for this 368K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. In the latest week, 13.5% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -0.2% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £252K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
368K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-0.2%
Conversion, latest week
13.5%
Market size, estimated
£252Ka year
Peak month
July2.0× the quietest month
Top search term
travel sickness bands90K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £5.08.

Listings sell for £5.08 on average, from £2.97 to £10.89. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 40K to 50K a year. The average listing sells 3,000 to 4,000 of them. At £5.08 that is £15K to £20K a year per listing.

Average price
£5.08under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£2.97–£10.89
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
40K–50K
Units per listing a year
3,000–4,000
Revenue per listing a year
£15K–£20K
Returns
0.1%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is ads and reviews.

91% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #10 within Over-the-Counter Medication. It carries 5,078 reviews at 4.14 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
91%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#10in Over-the-Counter Medication
Average rating
4.14 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
5,078per listing
Listings tracked
11

04 · Newcomers

Brands here are settling in.

The brands on the shelf have sold for 52 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

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

Products

Top Travel Sickness Bands 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 77% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.

£0£25K£50K£76K£101K101001K10K100K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

8 flat

Sellers

22

Top-5 brand share

92%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

77%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

5%

  • MEIYYJ56%
  • Sea-Band17%
  • SZSTYYP8%
  • Feiyayi8%
  • Frida Mom3%
  • Hion3%
  • Open — no brand owns it (2 brands, 5%)

Demand

Travel Sickness Bands search demand

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

10K6KSpike '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Jul, Aug · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.0×

Search terms

Top Travel Sickness Bands search terms shoppers use

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

  • travel sickness bands90K/yr
  • motion sickness bands35K/yr
  • sickness bands24K/yr
  • sea sickness wristbands35K/yr
  • anti sickness wristbands37K/yr
  • travel bands23K/yr
  • sea bands17K/yr
  • travel bands for travel sickness adult12K/yr
  • nausea relief bands12K/yr
  • sea bands for adults9K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Travel Sickness Bands

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

Complain

Size-Overall29%−0.19

Not fit for purpose

Very small

A little tight on your wrists

Functionality-Overall27%−0.29

Didn't work for me

Not very effective

No results

Comfort-Overall9%

Not comfortable

these are uncomfortably tight

they were too uncomfortablely tight to wear

Ease Of Use4%

Difficult to get on

hard to put on by yourself

ridiculously fiddly to get on

Quality-Overall4%+0.47

So disappointing after reading all the positive reviews

Cheap and not great

Love

Value For Money16%+0.73

Affordable

Good value

Great value

Efficiency12%+1.20

they do the job

Helps

work extremely well

Advertised Vs Actual Product12%+1.12

Works just as promised

Really work

Exactly as described

Comfort-Overall9%

good comfortable product

The bands are comfortable to wear

Comfortable to wear

Quality-Overall9%+0.47

Good quality bands

The quality of the bands themselves is good

Excellent product

Return

0.1% Return rate 25% Fixable by listing

Functionality-Overall38%▁▁▁▁█▁

Didn't work for me

Not very effective

No results

Size-Overall25%▁█▁▁▃▁

Not fit for purpose

Very small

A little tight on your wrists

Defective Material/Parts25%▁▁▁▁▁█
Product Condition13%▁▁▁▁█▁

FAQ

Common Travel Sickness Bands questions

Answered from the same tracked data.