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Hair Grippers

Fail

Prices span $4.88–$14.01, mostly outside the sweet spot, so Hair Grippers is a Fail.

Flapen Score
39
39 / 100
Ranks 8,990 of 10,978 Beauty & Personal Care niches · −9 vs the category median of 48
Market size
$118K/yr206K searches / yr
90-day growth
-5.1%search demand this quarter
Competition
66%top-5 click share · 8 brands · 9 sellers

Flapen Score

Hair Grippers against its category

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

39Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Hair Grippers market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Hair Grippers 206K times last year and spent an estimated $118K. The top 5 brands take 91% of clicks. Demand peaks in Jan. Flapen scores it 39 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 7.5% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 206K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 7.5% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -5.1% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $118K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
206K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-5.1%
Conversion, latest week
7.5%
Market size, estimated
$118Ka year
Peak month
January1.5× the quietest month
Top search term
hair grippers40K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $7.60.

Listings sell for $7.60 on average, from $4.88 to $14.01. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 15K to 20K a year. The average listing sells 750 to 1,000 of them. At $7.60 that is $6K to $8K a year per listing.

Average price
$7.60under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$4.88–$14.01
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
15K–20K
Units per listing a year
750–1,000
Revenue per listing a year
$6K–$8K
Returns
1.0%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

50% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 4.3% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #1,487 within Clips & Barrettes. It carries 5,649 reviews at 4.41 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
50%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
4.3%
Average rank
#1,487in Clips & Barrettes
Average rating
4.41 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
5,649per listing
Listings tracked
14

04 · Newcomers

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

3 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 41 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
3
Successful launches
0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
41 months

Products

Top Hair Grippers 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 66% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

Brands

8 falling

Sellers

9

Top-5 brand share

91%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

66%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

4%

  • Brand 157%
  • Brand 214%
  • Brand 38%
  • Brand 47%
  • Brand 55%
  • Brand 65%
  • Open — no brand owns it (2 brands, 4%)

Demand

Hair Grippers search demand

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

5K4KSpike '24Spike '25Prime Day '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Jan · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.5×

Search terms

Top Hair Grippers search terms shoppers use

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

  • hair grippers40K/yr
  • velcro hair grippers24K/yr
  • barber hair clips23K/yr
  • hair velcro14K/yr
  • barber clips19K/yr
  • hair clips barber14K/yr
  • barber hair gripper8K/yr
  • hair velcro gripper13K/yr
  • velcro hair clips9K/yr
  • hair grips9K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Hair Grippers

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

15%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
16%of negative reviews mention “Hair Related”
1.0%of orders come back
“Pulls hair out”
A buyer, on “Hair Related”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.

22 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Hair Grippers questions

Answered from the same tracked data.