Skip to content

Rat Poisoning

Maybe

Returns run at only 0.3% of orders. But the top 5 brands take 97% of clicks, so Rat Poisoning is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
52
52 / 100
Top 44% of 5,777 Home & Garden niches · +1 vs the category median of 51
Market size
£2.8M/yr1.8M searches / yr
90-day growth
+9.5%search demand this quarter
Competition
76%top-5 click share · 6 brands · 9 sellers

Flapen Score

Rat Poisoning against its category

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

52Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Rat Poisoning market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Rat Poisoning 1.8M times last year and spent an estimated £2.8M. The top 5 brands take 97% of clicks. Flapen scores it 52 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

15.6% of searches ended in a purchase last week.

Shoppers searched for this 1.8M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. In the latest week, 15.6% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +9.5% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £2.8M a year.

Searches, last 12 months
1.8M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+9.5%
Conversion, latest week
15.6%
Market size, estimated
£2.8Ma year
Peak month
November1.6× the quietest month
Top search term
rat poisoning super strength694K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £9.74.

Listings sell for £9.74 on average, from £5.02 to £16.68. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 250K to 300K a year. The average listing sells 15,000 to 20,000 of them. At £9.74 that is £146K to £195K a year per listing.

Average price
£9.74under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£5.02–£16.68
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
250K–300K
Units per listing a year
15,000–20,000
Revenue per listing a year
£146K–£195K
Returns
0.3%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

18% 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 #9 within Plant Protection & Pest Control. It carries 3,331 reviews at 4.45 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
18%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#9in Plant Protection & Pest Control
Average rating
4.45 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
3,331per listing
Listings tracked
11

04 · Newcomers

Amazon counts 1 of last year's 1 launches as successful.

1 products launched here in the last 12 months. Amazon counts 1 of them as successful launches, new products that hit its first-year sales bar. The brands on the shelf have sold for 35 months on average, so a newcomer is not facing entrenched names.

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

Products

Top Rat Poisoning 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 76% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.

£0£281K£561K£842K£1.1M1001K10K100K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

6 falling

Sellers

9

Top-5 brand share

97%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

76%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

0%

  • Roshield47%
  • Pest Expert15%
  • Pest-X Pro12%
  • NOPE!12%
  • Ratkil11%
  • H HYDRO SIP3%

Demand

Rat Poisoning search demand

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

50K30KSpike '24Black Friday '24SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.6×

Search terms

Top Rat Poisoning search terms shoppers use

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

  • rat poisoning super strength694K/yr
  • rat poison252K/yr
  • rat poisoning189K/yr
  • mouse poisoning indoor124K/yr
  • rat117K/yr
  • rat bait65K/yr
  • rat poisoning blocks50K/yr
  • rat killer47K/yr
  • mouse poison60K/yr
  • rat poisoning super strength outdoors23K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Rat Poisoning

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

Complain

Functionality-Overall47%−0.40

Doesnt work very well

Did not work

Not effective

Value For Money12%−0.03

Not worth it at all

Quite expensive,

These blocks are not the cheapest

Pest/Insect Control7%+0.15

it wasn't even eaten by the pest

Not kill rats

not poison to kill rat

Durability6%−0.02

even 3 weeks later

the cracks in the floor board to enter the storage space

after less than a day gave up altogether

Strength6%−0.02

Not as strong as I hoped

Not as strong as advertised

Not great, not strong enough

Love

Advertised Vs Actual Product22%+1.67

As Advertised

As pictured

As described

Efficiency19%+1.31

Works fine

Efficient

Works effectively

Quality-Overall16%+0.71

Good quality and arrived very quickly

Product satisfactory

Excellent Quality Product

Ease Of Use13%+0.81

Convenient and easy

Easy to bait

easy to handle and seems effective

Value For Money10%−0.03

Excellent value

GOOD VALUE

Good value for money

Return

0.3% Return rate 36% Fixable by listing

Functionality-Overall39%▃▅█▃▂▄

Doesnt work very well

Did not work

Not effective

Size-Overall21%▄▅▃▆█▄

The blocks were larger than the others l had previously used

they were only small to start with

Not large boxes

Advertised Vs Actual Product12%▆▄▂▇█▃
Compatibility-Overall4%█▁▁▃▅▇
Pest/Insect Control4%▁▅▁▇▁█

it wasn't even eaten by the pest

Not kill rats

not poison to kill rat

FAQ

Common Rat Poisoning questions

Answered from the same tracked data.