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Brown Thread

Fail

Prices span $4.17–$14.53, mostly outside the sweet spot, so Brown Thread is a Fail.

Flapen Score
42
42 / 100
Ranks 3,179 of 4,656 Arts, Crafts & Sewing niches · −4 vs the category median of 46
Market size
$54K/yr56K searches / yr
90-day growth
-6.6%search demand this quarter
Competition
61%top-5 click share · 15 brands · 55 sellers

Flapen Score

Brown Thread against its category

The dotted line is the Arts, Crafts & Sewing average. Past it, Brown Thread is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

42Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Brown Thread market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Brown Thread 56K times last year and spent an estimated $54K. The top 5 brands take 75% of clicks. Flapen scores it 42 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 13.3% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 56K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 13.3% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -6.6% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $54K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
56K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-6.6%
Conversion, latest week
13.3%
Market size, estimated
$54Ka year
Top search term
brown thread24K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $7.33.

Listings sell for $7.33 on average, from $4.17 to $14.53. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 6K to 8K a year. The average listing sells 250 to 500 of them. At $7.33 that is $2K to $4K a year per listing.

Average price
$7.33under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$4.17–$14.53
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
6K–8K
Units per listing a year
250–500
Revenue per listing a year
$2K–$4K
Returns
0.7%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

65% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 5.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #316 within Thread & Floss. It carries 1,571 reviews at 4.56 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
65%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
5.0%
Average rank
#316in Thread & Floss
Average rating
4.56 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
1,571per listing
Listings tracked
23

04 · Newcomers

Brands here are established.

The brands on the shelf have sold for 62 months on average, so the names here are established.

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

Products

Top Brown Thread products & what they sell for

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

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Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take 61% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

Brands

15 falling

Sellers

55

Top-5 brand share

75%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

61%

Top 20: 96%

Open market

20%

  • Brand 142%
  • Brand 212%
  • Brand 38%
  • Brand 47%
  • Brand 56%
  • Brand 65%

Search terms

Top Brown Thread search terms shoppers use

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

  • brown thread24K/yr
  • brown thread for sewing15K/yr
  • brown sewing thread8K/yr
  • dark brown thread3K/yr
  • brown thread for sewing machine3K/yr
  • dark brown thread for sewing3K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Brown Thread

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

23%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
18%of negative reviews mention “Size-Overall”
0.7%of orders come back
“Spools are very small”
A buyer, on “Size-Overall”18% 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 Brown Thread questions

Answered from the same tracked data.