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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

21.7% of searches ended in a purchase last week.

Shoppers searched for this 537K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. In the latest week, 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

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 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

Every tracked product: its share of the shelf, its reviews, and its price.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take 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

Top-5 brand share

79%

Top 20: 100%

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 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

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

Complain

Strength44%−0.27

Not very strong

Cheap and flimsy

Too flimsy

Quality-Overall21%−0.09

Very cheap quality

Bad quality

quality is a bit weak

Size-Overall7%+0.73

The largest are quite large

Too small

38 small ones - not what I was expecting at all

Rusts/Corrodes5%0.00

poor quality and also some of the pins are rusty

The safety pins bought years agó are rusty so bought a small quantity

Material Quality4%−0.02

material, which is not always easy

The metal feels quite thin

They won't go through material

Love

Size-Overall18%+0.73

yes right size

Always handy to have in different sizes

Happy with these good sizes

Value For Money17%+1.58

Good price

Great value for money always helpful to have

Excellent value for money

Advertised Vs Actual Product11%+0.64

As pictured, love the box for them

they do work as expected

Just what I needed

Quality-Overall9%−0.09

Quality seems good

Very happy with quality and storage tub

Good quality pins

Security7%+0.45

Good selection of safety pins

Safety pins

Safe

Return

0.2% Return rate 35% Fixable by listing

Size-Overall30%▃▂▅█▅▄

The largest are quite large

Too small

38 small ones - not what I was expecting at all

Quality-Overall24%▁█▅▄▃█

Very cheap quality

Bad quality

quality is a bit weak

Strength22%█▅▂▁▁▃

Not very strong

Cheap and flimsy

Too flimsy

Thin4%▁▅▅▁█▁
Advertised Vs Actual Product3%▁▁▅▁█▁

FAQ

Common Safety Pins questions

Answered from the same tracked data.