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Scale Ruler

Fail

Prices span $3.16–$11.82, mostly outside the sweet spot, so Scale Ruler is a Fail.

Flapen Score
43
43 / 100
Ranks 518 of 835 Stationery & Office Supplies niches · −4 vs the category median of 47
Market size
£111K/yr82K searches / yr
90-day growth
-25.9%search demand this quarter
Competition
70%top-5 click share · 11 brands · 20 sellers

Flapen Score

Scale Ruler against its category

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

43Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Scale Ruler market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Scale Ruler 82K times last year and spent an estimated £111K. The top 5 brands take 80% of clicks. Demand peaks in Sep–Oct. Flapen scores it 43 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

19.3% of searches ended in a purchase last week.

Shoppers searched for this 82K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. In the latest week, 19.3% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -25.9% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £111K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
82K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-25.9%
Conversion, latest week
19.3%
Market size, estimated
£111Ka year
Peak month
September2.4× the quietest month
Top search term
scale ruler58K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £7.01.

Listings sell for £7.01 on average, from £3.16 to £11.82. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 15K to 20K a year. The average listing sells 750 to 1,000 of them. At £7.01 that is £5K to £7K a year per listing.

Average price
£7.01under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£3.16–£11.82
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
15K–20K
Units per listing a year
750–1,000
Revenue per listing a year
£5K–£7K
Returns
0.4%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

67% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 2.3% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #54 within Office Supplies. It carries 778 reviews at 4.45 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
67%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
2.3%
Average rank
#54in Office Supplies
Average rating
4.45 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
778per listing
Listings tracked
15

04 · Newcomers

Amazon counts 0 of last year's 3 launches as successful.

3 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 45 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
3
Successful launches
0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
45 months

Products

Top Scale Ruler 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£11K£22K£33K£44K1101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)1 product missing review or click data not plotted

Brands

11 falling

Sellers

20

Top-5 brand share

80%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

70%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

15%

  • Cyleibe21%
  • Aruicheng19%
  • Stylo18%
  • Rena Chris15%
  • Helix8%
  • Rulex6%
  • Open — no brand owns it (5 brands, 15%)

Demand

Scale Ruler search demand

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

3K2KSpike '24Spike '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Sep, Oct · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.4×

Search terms

Top Scale Ruler search terms shoppers use

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

  • scale ruler58K/yr
  • scale rule10K/yr
  • scale ruler architect7K/yr
  • scale ruler 1 20 1 50 1 1003K/yr
  • architect ruler3K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Scale Ruler

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

Complain

Quality-Overall58%−0.09

Garbage

Bad quality

I had to get a refund on this rule as it wasn't good quality at all

Value For Money17%−0.08

Haul garbage 🗑️ at full price

Smell8%−0.03

Smells of cheap chemicals

smelly

Love

Quality-Overall31%−0.09

Excellent product for the job

Quality spot on very good finish product

Excellent quality

Advertised Vs Actual Product21%+0.59

Does the job

Exactly as described

Just what I needed

Ease Of Use15%+1.77

Easy to use

Makes life so easy

Easy to read

Durability10%+1.01

Strong and well made and appears very durable for the cost

Good for those that want durable scale ruler

is good quality so will probably last me a while

Value For Money4%−0.08

OK, it wasn't expensive

Good value for the money

Reasonably priced and well worth trying

Return

0.4% Return rate 10% Fixable by listing

Quality-Overall29%▁▁█▆▁▁

Garbage

Bad quality

I had to get a refund on this rule as it wasn't good quality at all

Measurement/Reading Accuracy19%▁▇▁▁▁█
Material Quality10%▁█▁▁▁▆
Defective Material/Parts10%▁█▁▁▁▆
Ease Of Use7%▁▆▁▁▁█

FAQ

Common Scale Ruler questions

Answered from the same tracked data.