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Wood Wicks

Fail

Prices span $7.12–$16.18, mostly outside the sweet spot, so Wood Wicks is a Fail.

Flapen Score
48
48 / 100
Top 40% of 4,656 Arts, Crafts & Sewing niches · +2 vs the category median of 46
Market size
$90K/yr388K searches / yr
90-day growth
-10.3%search demand this quarter
Competition
54%top-5 click share · 18 brands · 22 sellers

Flapen Score

Wood Wicks against its category

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

48Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Wood Wicks market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Wood Wicks 388K times last year and spent an estimated $90K. The top 5 brands take 63% of clicks. Demand peaks in Jan–Oct–Nov–Dec. Flapen scores it 48 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 2.3% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 388K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 2.3% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -10.3% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $90K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
388K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-10.3%
Conversion, latest week
2.3%
Market size, estimated
$90Ka year
Peak month
December3.1× the quietest month
Top search term
wood wicks67K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $10.32.

Listings sell for $10.32 on average, from $7.12 to $16.18. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 20K to 25K a year. The average listing sells 750 to 1,000 of them. At $10.32 that is $8K to $10K a year per listing.

Average price
$10.32under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$7.12–$16.18
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
20K–25K
Units per listing a year
750–1,000
Revenue per listing a year
$8K–$10K
Returns
1.5%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, 0.3% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #78 within Candle Making. It carries 417 reviews at 4.14 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
96%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
0.3%
Average rank
#78in Candle Making
Average rating
4.14 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
417per listing
Listings tracked
27

04 · Newcomers

2 of last year's 9 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

9 products launched here in the last 12 months. 2 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 39 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
9
Successful launches
2Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
39 months

Products

Top Wood Wicks 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

18 falling

Sellers

22

Top-5 brand share

63%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

54%

Top 20: 93%

Open market

32%

  • Brand 116%
  • Brand 215%
  • Brand 312%
  • Brand 410%
  • Brand 510%
  • Brand 66%

Demand

Wood Wicks search demand

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

15K10KSpike '24Holiday '24Spike '25Black Friday '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMayAug

Peak months: Jan, Oct, Nov, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 3.1×

Search terms

Top Wood Wicks search terms shoppers use

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

  • wood wicks67K/yr
  • wood wicks for candles making64K/yr
  • wooden candle wicks20K/yr
  • wood candle wicks39K/yr
  • wood wick38K/yr
  • wooden wicks for candlemaking30K/yr
  • wooden wicks21K/yr
  • wood wicks for candles16K/yr
  • wooden wick13K/yr
  • candle wood wicks10K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Wood Wicks

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

16%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
16%of negative reviews mention “Flammable”
1.5%of orders come back
“These smoke a lot”
A buyer, on “Flammable”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.

20 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Wood Wicks questions

Answered from the same tracked data.