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Pool Cue Tips

Fail

Demand is soft, at -25.4% this quarter, so Pool Cue Tips is a Fail.

Flapen Score
46
46 / 100
Ranks 512 of 792 Sports & Outdoors niches · −4 vs the category median of 50
Market size
£92K/yr176K searches / yr
90-day growth
-25.4%search demand this quarter
Competition
65%top-5 click share · 14 brands · 18 sellers

Flapen Score

Pool Cue Tips against its category

The dotted line is the Sports & Outdoors average. Past it, Pool Cue Tips is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

46Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Pool Cue Tips market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Pool Cue Tips 176K times last year and spent an estimated £92K. The top 5 brands take 72% of clicks. Demand peaks in Jan. Flapen scores it 46 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

8.6% of searches ended in a purchase last week.

Shoppers searched for this 176K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. In the latest week, 8.6% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -25.4% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £92K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
176K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-25.4%
Conversion, latest week
8.6%
Market size, estimated
£92Ka year
Peak month
January1.9× the quietest month
Top search term
pool cue tips50K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £6.14.

Listings sell for £6.14 on average, from £3.37 to £18.44. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 10K to 13K a year. The average listing sells 100 to 250 of them. At £6.14 that is £614 to £2K a year per listing.

Average price
£6.14under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£3.37–£18.44
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
10K–13K
Units per listing a year
100–250
Revenue per listing a year
£614–£2K
Returns
0.4%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

69% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 94% ship with Prime. On an average day, 10.3% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #19 within Billiards & Pool. It carries 245 reviews at 4.38 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
69%
Prime listings
94%
Out of stock, average day
10.3%
Average rank
#19in Billiards & Pool
Average rating
4.38 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
245per listing
Listings tracked
16

04 · Newcomers

Amazon counts 0 of last year's 1 launches as successful.

1 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
1
Successful launches
0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
39 months

Products

Top Pool Cue Tips 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 65% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

£0£9K£18K£28K£37K1101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

14 falling

Sellers

18

Top-5 brand share

72%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

65%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

22%

  • TWEENTEN37%
  • LICQIC15%
  • BNXF7%
  • Jiujuda97%
  • SHUIYUE6%
  • TCMCZ6%

Demand

Pool Cue Tips search demand

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

5K4KSpike '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Jan · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.9×

Search terms

Top Pool Cue Tips search terms shoppers use

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

  • pool cue tips50K/yr
  • snooker cue tip40K/yr
  • cue tips36K/yr
  • snooker cue tips19K/yr
  • snooker tips8K/yr
  • pool cue tips and glue kit7K/yr
  • cue tip5K/yr
  • pool cue tip5K/yr
  • pool tips4K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Pool Cue Tips

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

Complain

Quality-Overall33%+1.89

They are not even near the quality of the most basic glue-on tips

Poor quality

Very poor quality

Compatibility-Overall33%−0.25

It doesnt pair up with what it said it would

Leather Quality17%−0.12

The leather is very thin and badly shaped, by the time you reshape them there is very little material left

Adhesion/Stickiness17%−0.09

plastic area covered in glue

Love

Value For Money31%+1.54

just great value

Good price

Definately worth the money

Quality-Overall29%+1.89

well made

quality of tools is very good

Excellent product

Size-Overall17%+0.78

Great price and fit perfectly

great cue tips various sizes and easy to apply and shape

perfect size with storage box which means they can be easily found

Advertised Vs Actual Product10%+0.02

Exactly as described

Exactly what we wanted

Meets expectations

Shape/Style4%+0.45

easily shaped both

Return

0.4% Return rate 73% Fixable by listing

Size-Overall67%▁█▅▇▃▆
Quality-Overall19%█▁▄▁▁▂

They are not even near the quality of the most basic glue-on tips

Poor quality

Very poor quality

Advertised Vs Actual Product6%▁▁▁▅█▁
Adhesion/Stickiness4%▁▁▁▁▄█

plastic area covered in glue

Add-Ons/Attachments3%▁▁▁▁█▁

FAQ

Common Pool Cue Tips questions

Answered from the same tracked data.