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Crystal Ball

Fail

Shoppers spend only $27K a year here, so Crystal Ball is a Fail.

Flapen Score
47
47 / 100
Ranks 3,643 of 5,777 Home & Garden niches · −4 vs the category median of 51
Market size
£27K/yr137K searches / yr
90-day growth
-23.9%search demand this quarter
Competition
45%top-5 click share · 23 brands · 29 sellers

Flapen Score

Crystal Ball against its category

The dotted line is the Home & Garden average. Past it, Crystal Ball is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

47Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Crystal Ball market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Crystal Ball 137K times last year and spent an estimated £27K. The top 5 brands take 56% of clicks. Demand peaks in Oct–Nov–Dec. Flapen scores it 47 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

1.7% of searches ended in a purchase last week.

Shoppers searched for this 137K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. In the latest week, 1.7% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -23.9% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £27K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
137K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-23.9%
Conversion, latest week
1.7%
Market size, estimated
£27Ka year
Peak month
December2.6× the quietest month
Top search term
crystal ball93K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £11.23.

Listings sell for £11.23 on average, from £1.73 to £42.59. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 2K to 3K a year. The average listing sells 0 to 100 of them. At £11.23 that is £0 to £1K a year per listing.

Average price
£11.23under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£1.73–£42.59
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
2K–3K
Units per listing a year
0–100
Revenue per listing a year
£0–£1K
Returns
0.9%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

79% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 94% ship with Prime. On an average day, 5.9% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #380 within Decorative Accessories. It carries 929 reviews at 4.40 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
79%
Prime listings
94%
Out of stock, average day
5.9%
Average rank
#380in Decorative Accessories
Average rating
4.40 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
929per listing
Listings tracked
34

04 · Newcomers

Amazon counts 0 of last year's 2 launches as successful.

2 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 39 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
2
Successful launches
0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
39 months

Products

Top Crystal Ball 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 45% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

£0£1K£2K£3K£4K101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

23 falling

Sellers

29

Top-5 brand share

56%

Top 20: 98%

Top-5 click share

45%

Top 20: 86%

Open market

38%

  • Roellgs21%
  • ZEERSHEE14%
  • FERNVALE8%
  • Mina Heal8%
  • JITIFAZH7%
  • Vicloon6%

Demand

Crystal Ball search demand

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

5K3KSpike '25Holiday '25JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJul

Peak months: Oct, Nov, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.6×

Search terms

Top Crystal Ball search terms shoppers use

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

  • crystal ball93K/yr
  • crystal balls11K/yr
  • glass balls9K/yr
  • glass ball8K/yr
  • crystal sphere6K/yr
  • crystal ball fortune telling6K/yr
  • large crystal ball5K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Crystal Ball

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

Complain

Size-Overall36%−0.16

They were not even the remotely similar in size

It might be too large for you

It's small

Quality-Overall8%+0.43

Finally, the build quality feels very poor

What a load of rubbish these were

Complete rubbish

Display-Overall7%−0.03

This does not display anything on the ceiling apart from a slight smudge when at bedside table height

Material Quality7%−0.05

100%rubbish

Value For Money5%+0.82

Cheap price

At the current selling price it is a little expensive an not good value

Love

Quality-Overall25%+0.43

Beautifully made

Excellent Product

They're well made

Value For Money19%+0.82

worth money

Great Value

Great product at a great price

Gifting Purpose10%+0.77

Gift, well received

Great gift

Suitable gift

Advertised Vs Actual Product5%+0.71

Exactly as described

The size and description was exact

Exactly what I wanted

Image/Picture Clarity5%+0.53

have created some excellent images

Really good image of the tree

Overall, it looks nice in pictures,

Return

0.9% Return rate 67% Fixable by listing

Size-Overall49%▅▅▄█▅▄

They were not even the remotely similar in size

It might be too large for you

It's small

Quality-Overall10%█▃▅▁▃▃

Finally, the build quality feels very poor

What a load of rubbish these were

Complete rubbish

Advertised Vs Actual Product9%▁▅▂▁▃█
Functionality-Overall6%▁▃█▁▁▁
Weight Heavy6%▁▁▆▆▅█

quite heavy for its size so feels more expensive than what it was

FAQ

Common Crystal Ball questions

Answered from the same tracked data.