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Guillotine

Maybe

An estimated 1.5% of orders come back. But demand is soft, at -14.7% this quarter, so Guillotine is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
53
53 / 100
Top 23% of 835 Stationery & Office Supplies niches · +6 vs the category median of 47
Market size
£808K/yr777K searches / yr
90-day growth
-14.7%search demand this quarter
Competition
72%top-5 click share · 12 brands · 34 sellers

Flapen Score

Guillotine against its category

The dotted line is the Stationery & Office Supplies average. Past it, Guillotine is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

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

Market

The Guillotine market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Guillotine 777K times last year and spent an estimated £808K. The top 5 brands take 85% of clicks. Flapen scores it 53 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 7.3% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 777K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 7.3% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -14.7% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £808K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
777K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-14.7%
Conversion, latest week
7.3%
Market size, estimated
£808Ka year
Peak month
November1.5× the quietest month
Top search term
guillotine202K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £14.24.

Listings sell for £14.24 on average, from £4.44 to £28.89. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 50K to 60K a year. The average listing sells 2,000 to 2,500 of them. At £14.24 that is £28K to £36K a year per listing.

Average price
£14.24under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£4.44–£28.89
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
50K–60K
Units per listing a year
2,000–2,500
Revenue per listing a year
£28K–£36K
Returns
1.5%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

89% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 3.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #12 within Office Supplies. It carries 2,208 reviews at 4.28 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
89%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
3.0%
Average rank
#12in Office Supplies
Average rating
4.28 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
2,208per listing
Listings tracked
18

04 · Newcomers

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

2 products launched here in the last 12 months. 1 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 38 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
2
Successful launches
1Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
38 months

Products

Top Guillotine 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 29, 2026. The live listing can differ.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take an estimated 72% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.

£0£81K£162K£242K£323K101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

12 flat

Sellers

34

Est. top-5 brand share

85%

Top 20: 100%

Est. top-5 click share

72%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

11%

  • Amazon Basics27%
  • Firbon21%
  • MOWETOO21%
  • JIELISI11%
  • joibabe7%
  • NOKAPIN4%
  • Open — no brand owns it (6 brands, 11%)

Demand

Guillotine search demand

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

25K15KSpike '24Prime Day '25Spike '25Holiday '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.5×

Search terms

Top Guillotine search terms shoppers use

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

  • guillotine202K/yr
  • paper cutter186K/yr
  • guillotine paper cutter a488K/yr
  • paper guillotine59K/yr
  • paper trimmer50K/yr
  • paper cutter guillotine41K/yr
  • guillotine paper cutter20K/yr
  • guillotine cutter23K/yr
  • paper cutters for crafts14K/yr
  • paper guillotine a415K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Guillotine

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

16%of positive reviews mention “Value For Money”
12%of negative reviews mention “Paper Quality”
1.5%of orders come back
“Cuts paper”
A buyer, on “Paper Quality”12% 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.

15 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Guillotine 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