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Safety Pins

Maybe

Buyers convert on 21.7% of searches. But prices span $1.13–$5.49, mostly outside the sweet spot, so Safety Pins is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
53
53 / 100
Top 40% of 5,777 Home & Garden niches · +2 vs the category median of 51
Market size
£403K/yr537K searches / yr
90-day growth
+30.5%search demand this quarter
Competition
73%top-5 click share · 14 brands · 41 sellers

Flapen Score

Safety Pins against its category

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

53Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Safety Pins market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Safety Pins 537K times last year and spent an estimated £403K. The top 5 brands take 79% of clicks. Flapen scores it 53 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 21.7% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 537K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 21.7% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +30.5% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £403K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
537K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+30.5%
Conversion, latest week
21.7%
Market size, estimated
£403Ka year
Peak month
July1.7× the quietest month
Top search term
safety pins405K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £3.46.

Listings sell for £3.46 on average, from £1.13 to £5.49. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 100K to 125K a year. The average listing sells 6,000 to 8,000 of them. At £3.46 that is £21K to £28K a year per listing.

Average price
£3.46under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£1.13–£5.49
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
100K–125K
Units per listing a year
6,000–8,000
Revenue per listing a year
£21K–£28K
Returns
0.2%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

83% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 12.8% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #19 within Art & Craft Supplies. It carries 1,478 reviews at 4.42 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
83%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
12.8%
Average rank
#19in Art & Craft Supplies
Average rating
4.42 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
1,478per listing
Listings tracked
18

04 · Newcomers

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

2 products launched here in the last 12 months. 0 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 30 months on average, so a newcomer is not facing entrenched names.

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

Products

Top Safety Pins 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 26, 2026. The live listing can differ.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take an estimated 73% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.

£0£40K£81K£121K£161K1101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

14 rising

Sellers

41

Est. top-5 brand share

79%

Top 20: 100%

Est. top-5 click share

73%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

17%

  • KORBOND29%
  • JKG25%
  • ProPinz16%
  • AIOUNIYA5%
  • TEAMIOULING5%
  • SPINBUZZ4%
  • Open — no brand owns it (8 brands, 17%)

Demand

Safety Pins search demand

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

15K10KSpike '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.7×

Search terms

Top Safety Pins search terms shoppers use

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

  • safety pins405K/yr
  • safety pins for clothes51K/yr
  • safety pin23K/yr
  • pins for clothes12K/yr
  • clothes pins10K/yr
  • safety pins assorted sizes9K/yr
  • saftey pins8K/yr
  • clothes pin5K/yr
  • safety pins for running bibs3K/yr
  • clothing pins4K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Safety Pins

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

18%of positive reviews mention “Size-Overall”
44%of negative reviews mention “Strength”
0.2%of orders come back
“Not very strong”
A buyer, on “Strength”44% 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.

18 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Safety Pins 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