Is Clip Ins profitable to sell on Amazon United States?

Flapen scores Clip Ins 52 out of 100 on Amazon United States, a Maybe. Shoppers spend $174K a year across 74 tracked products. 5 of the 18 products launched in the last year cleared the first-year sales bar. Search demand grew -20.0% in the last 90 days.

How competitive is the Clip Ins niche on Amazon United States?

40 brands and 44 sellers compete in Clip Ins on Amazon United States. The top 5 Clip Ins products take 28% of clicks, and the top 5 brands take 46%.

What do buyers complain about in Clip Ins?

Clip Ins buyers on Amazon United States complain most about Thickness, Hair Related, and Quality-Overall. An estimated 6.4% of orders come back, which is high.

When does demand for Clip Ins peak?

Search demand for Clip Ins on Amazon United States peaks in Oct–Nov–Dec, and the busiest month runs 2.4× the quietest.

What does it cost to enter the Clip Ins niche?

Clip Ins sells for $51.62 on average on Amazon United States, inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot. Listings run $8.99 to $121.86. The average product has 2,552 reviews, the count a new listing must catch up to.

Clip Ins

Maybe

Products sell for $51.62 on average, inside the sweet spot. But buyers convert on only 0.8% of searches, so Clip Ins is a Maybe.

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Flapen Score: 52
52 / 100Top 29% of 10,978 Beauty & Personal Care niches · +4 vs the category median of 48
Market size: $174K/yr412K searches / yr
90-day growth: -20.0%search demand this quarter
Competition: 28%top-5 click share · 40 brands · 44 sellers

Flapen Score

Clip Ins against its category

The dotted line is the Beauty & Personal Care average. Past it, Clip Ins is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

52Maybe

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Market

The Clip Ins market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Clip Ins 412K times last year and spent an estimated $174K. The top 5 brands take 46% of clicks. Demand peaks in Oct–Nov–Dec. Flapen scores it 52 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 0.8% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 412K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 0.8% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -20.0% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $174K a year.

Searches, last 12 months: 412K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90: -20.0%
Conversion, latest week: 0.8%
Market size, estimated: $174Ka year
Peak month: October2.4× the quietest month
Top search term: clip ins real human hair black women90K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $51.62.

Listings sell for $51.62 on average, from $8.99 to $121.86. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 4K to 5K a year. The average listing sells 100 to 250 of them. At $51.62 that is $5K to $13K a year per listing.

Average price: $51.62inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range: $8.99–$121.86
Amazon United States median price: $24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year: 4K–5K
Units per listing a year: 100–250
Revenue per listing a year: $5K–$13K
Returns: 6.4%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is ads and reviews.

97% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 7.7% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #582 within Hair Extensions. It carries 2,552 reviews at 4.09 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings: 97%
Prime listings: 100%
Out of stock, average day: 7.7%
Average rank: #582in Hair Extensions
Average rating: 4.09 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews: 2,552per listing
Listings tracked: 74

04 · Newcomers

5 of last year's 18 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

18 products launched here in the last 12 months. 5 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 35 months on average, so a newcomer is not facing entrenched names.

Launched, last 12 months: 18
Successful launches: 5Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age: 35 months

Products

Top Clip Ins products & what they sell for

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

The products selling in this niche are for signed-in readers. Every market figure above stays open to everyone.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take only 28% of clicks. An open shelf where new products get seen.

Brands

40 rising

Sellers

Top-5 brand share

46%

Top 20: 85%

Top-5 click share

28%

Top 20: 61%

Open market

49%

Brand 117%
Brand 29%
Brand 38%
Brand 47%
Brand 56%
Brand 65%

Demand

Clip Ins search demand

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

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

Search terms

Top Clip Ins search terms shoppers use

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

clip ins real human hair black women90K/yr -21.8%0.8% conv.
human hair clip ins for black women58K/yr -29.5%0.7% conv.
hair clip ins for black women28K/yr -19.9%0.8% conv.
clip in hair extensions black women35K/yr -27.2%0.5% conv.
mscoco hair clip ins31K/yr -33.4%0.6% conv.
clip ins for black women22K/yr -18.7%0.7% conv.
ombre clip in hair extensions18K/yr -3.7%0.4% conv.
clip in hair extensions for black women13K/yr +11.9%0.2% conv.
seamless clip ins22K/yr -34.3%0.5% conv.
better length hair clip ins10K/yr +20.4%0.1% conv.

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Clip Ins

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

16%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”

17%of negative reviews mention “Thickness”

6.4%of orders come back

“The hair was thick”

A buyer, on “Thickness”17% 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.

19 topics

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