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Cold Wax Medium

Maybe

An estimated 0.5% of orders come back. But the top 5 products take 85% of clicks, so Cold Wax Medium is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
52
52 / 100
Top 22% of 4,656 Arts, Crafts & Sewing niches · +6 vs the category median of 46
Market size
$253K/yr135K searches / yr
90-day growth
+27.5%search demand this quarter
Competition
85%top-5 click share · 7 brands · 32 sellers

Flapen Score

Cold Wax Medium against its category

The dotted line is the Arts, Crafts & Sewing average. Past it, Cold Wax Medium is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

52Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Cold Wax Medium market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Cold Wax Medium 135K times last year and spent an estimated $253K. The top 5 brands take 94% of clicks. Demand peaks in Jan–May–Dec. Flapen scores it 52 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 10.1% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 135K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 10.1% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +27.5% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $253K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
135K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+27.5%
Conversion, latest week
10.1%
Market size, estimated
$253Ka year
Peak month
May2.8× the quietest month
Top search term
dorlands wax medium for watercolor37K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $18.71.

Listings sell for $18.71 on average, from $12.65 to $31.17. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 13K to 15K a year. The average listing sells 1,250 to 1,500 of them. At $18.71 that is $23K to $28K a year per listing.

Average price
$18.71inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$12.65–$31.17
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
13K–15K
Units per listing a year
1,250–1,500
Revenue per listing a year
$23K–$28K
Returns
0.5%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

70% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #186 within Painting. It carries 762 reviews at 4.60 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
70%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#186in Painting
Average rating
4.60 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
762per listing
Listings tracked
10

04 · Newcomers

0 of last year's 4 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

4 products launched here in the last 12 months. 0 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 82 months on average, so the names here are established.

Launched, last 12 months
4
Successful launches
0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
82 months

Products

Top Cold Wax Medium 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 85% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.

Brands

7 rising

Sellers

32

Top-5 brand share

94%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

85%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

3%

  • Brand 139%
  • Brand 224%
  • Brand 318%
  • Brand 46%
  • Brand 56%
  • Brand 64%
  • Open — no brand owns it (1 brand, 3%)

Demand

Cold Wax Medium search demand

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

5K4KSpike '24Holiday '24Spike '25Prime Day '25Black Friday '25Holiday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Jan, May, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.8×

Search terms

Top Cold Wax Medium search terms shoppers use

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

  • dorlands wax medium for watercolor37K/yr
  • cold wax medium16K/yr
  • dorlands wax medium19K/yr
  • gamblin cold wax medium9K/yr
  • cold wax medium for watercolor6K/yr
  • dorlands wax for watercolor9K/yr
  • watercolor wax sealer8K/yr
  • dorlands wax8K/yr
  • cold wax medium for oil painting3K/yr
  • wax medium for watercolor5K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Cold Wax Medium

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

27%of positive reviews mention “Paint Quality”
29%of negative reviews mention “Paint Quality”
0.5%of orders come back
“It leaves a strange sheen to the painting”
A buyer, on “Paint Quality”29% 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.

18 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Cold Wax Medium questions

Answered from the same tracked data.