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Cardboard Tubes

Maybe

Products sell for $19.94 on average, inside the sweet spot. But the products selling today already average 4.7★, so Cardboard Tubes is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
54
54 / 100
Top 16% of 4,656 Arts, Crafts & Sewing niches · +8 vs the category median of 46
Market size
$391K/yr349K searches / yr
90-day growth
+11.5%search demand this quarter
Competition
54%top-5 click share · 13 brands · 19 sellers

Flapen Score

Cardboard Tubes against its category

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

54Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Cardboard Tubes market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Cardboard Tubes 349K times last year and spent an estimated $391K. The top 5 brands take 73% of clicks. Demand peaks in Nov. Flapen scores it 54 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 5.6% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 349K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 5.6% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +11.5% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $391K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
349K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+11.5%
Conversion, latest week
5.6%
Market size, estimated
$391Ka year
Peak month
November1.7× the quietest month
Top search term
cardboard tubes103K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $19.94.

Listings sell for $19.94 on average, from $9.01 to $32.39. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 20K to 25K a year. The average listing sells 1,250 to 1,500 of them. At $19.94 that is $25K to $30K a year per listing.

Average price
$19.94inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$9.01–$32.39
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
20K–25K
Units per listing a year
1,250–1,500
Revenue per listing a year
$25K–$30K
Returns
2.3%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is ads.

96% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 1.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #584 within Paper & Paper Crafts. It carries 327 reviews at 4.70 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
96%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
1.0%
Average rank
#584in Paper & Paper Crafts
Average rating
4.70 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
327per listing
Listings tracked
23

04 · Newcomers

3 of last year's 8 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

8 products launched here in the last 12 months. 3 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 48 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
8
Successful launches
3Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
48 months

Products

Top Cardboard Tubes 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 54% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

Brands

13 falling

Sellers

19

Top-5 brand share

73%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

54%

Top 20: 96%

Open market

20%

  • Brand 130%
  • Brand 213%
  • Brand 312%
  • Brand 49%
  • Brand 59%
  • Brand 67%

Demand

Cardboard Tubes search demand

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

9K7KSpike '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Nov · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.7×

Search terms

Top Cardboard Tubes search terms shoppers use

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

  • cardboard tubes103K/yr
  • cardboard tubes for crafts37K/yr
  • cardboard tube35K/yr
  • toilet paper rolls for crafts31K/yr
  • toilet paper tubes13K/yr
  • paper towel rolls for crafts12K/yr
  • paper tubes12K/yr
  • paper towel tubes9K/yr
  • craft tubes11K/yr
  • cardboard rolls11K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Cardboard Tubes

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

19%of positive reviews mention “Strength”
16%of negative reviews mention “Size-Overall”
2.3%of orders come back
“I was disappointed there were several different sizes”
A buyer, on “Size-Overall”16% 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.

16 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Cardboard Tubes questions

Answered from the same tracked data.