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Plastic Wallets

Fail

Prices span $2.95–$12.98, mostly outside the sweet spot, so Plastic Wallets is a Fail.

Flapen Score
45
45 / 100
Ranks 455 of 835 Stationery & Office Supplies niches · −2 vs the category median of 47
Market size
£1.2M/yr1.3M searches / yr
90-day growth
-18.3%search demand this quarter
Competition
70%top-5 click share · 8 brands · 40 sellers

Flapen Score

Plastic Wallets against its category

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

45Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Plastic Wallets market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Plastic Wallets 1.3M times last year and spent an estimated £1.2M. The top 5 brands take 96% of clicks. Demand peaks in Sep. Flapen scores it 45 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

16.1% of searches ended in a purchase last week.

Shoppers searched for this 1.3M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. In the latest week, 16.1% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -18.3% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £1.2M a year.

Searches, last 12 months
1.3M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-18.3%
Conversion, latest week
16.1%
Market size, estimated
£1.2Ma year
Peak month
September3.0× the quietest month
Top search term
plastic wallets a4329K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £5.84.

Listings sell for £5.84 on average, from £2.95 to £12.98. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 250K to 300K a year. The average listing sells 6,000 to 8,000 of them. At £5.84 that is £35K to £47K a year per listing.

Average price
£5.84under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£2.95–£12.98
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
250K–300K
Units per listing a year
6,000–8,000
Revenue per listing a year
£35K–£47K
Returns
0.2%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is ads and reviews.

94% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 94% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.4% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #7 within Office Supplies. It carries 2,823 reviews at 4.57 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
94%
Prime listings
94%
Out of stock, average day
0.4%
Average rank
#7in Office Supplies
Average rating
4.57 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
2,823per listing
Listings tracked
18

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 38 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
38 months

Products

Top Plastic Wallets 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 70% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.

£0£123K£246K£369K£493K101001K10K100K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

8 falling

Sellers

40

Top-5 brand share

96%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

70%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

3%

  • SUMMIT48%
  • RAPESCO18%
  • G4GADGET17%
  • ojussa11%
  • FWEEK2%
  • ARTH1%
  • Open — no brand owns it (2 brands, 3%)

Demand

Plastic Wallets search demand

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

50K30KSpike '24Spike '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Sep · busiest ÷ quietest = 3.0×

Search terms

Top Plastic Wallets search terms shoppers use

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

  • plastic wallets a4329K/yr
  • plastic wallets164K/yr
  • a4 plastic wallet140K/yr
  • plastic folders77K/yr
  • poly pockets a474K/yr
  • plastic folders a461K/yr
  • a4 plastic sleeves50K/yr
  • plastic wallet39K/yr
  • polly pockets47K/yr
  • a4 plastic wallets33K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Plastic Wallets

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

Complain

Quality-Overall22%+0.65

Cheap, nasty awful quality

Awful quality

Flimsy quality

Strength15%−0.10

Flimsy

too flimsy

Not strong enough

Thickness12%−0.09

not good for really thick storage

Not as thick as I assumed, quite flimsy

Thin and Flimsy

Thin7%−0.06

Very thin

These punched pockets are rather thin

Pretty thin sleves

Paper Quality6%−0.03

just like very thin tissue paper

Very thin, crease easily and a bit tricky to insert paper

These are absolutely awful put an A4 piece of paper inside

Love

Quality-Overall29%+0.65

Good quality wallets

Excellent product

They wallet well and look great

Value For Money17%+1.55

Good for the money

fair price

Excellent value

Advertised Vs Actual Product11%+0.75

AS DESCRIBED

As described

Exactly as advertised

Document Organizing/Classification7%+0.83

great choice for keeping documents organised

Perfect for containing documents

superb to keep those documents together

Color5%+0.33

Great range of colours

Great colours

Love the colours

Return

0.2% Return rate 35% Fixable by listing

Size-Overall27%██▇█▅▆

disappointed in size

quite tight fitting though

is on the small side

Thin20%█▆▄▅▅▆

Very thin

These punched pockets are rather thin

Pretty thin sleves

Quality-Overall15%█▄▅▇▆▆

Cheap, nasty awful quality

Awful quality

Flimsy quality

Strength13%▄▄█▃▇▇

Flimsy

too flimsy

Not strong enough

Thickness4%▁▁█▇▅▁

not good for really thick storage

Not as thick as I assumed, quite flimsy

Thin and Flimsy

FAQ

Common Plastic Wallets questions

Answered from the same tracked data.