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Left Handed Shears

Fail

The average product has 16,054 reviews to catch up to, so Left Handed Shears is a Fail.

Flapen Score
43
43 / 100
Ranks 7,421 of 10,978 Beauty & Personal Care niches · −5 vs the category median of 48
Market size
$107K/yr55K searches / yr
90-day growth
-6.1%search demand this quarter
Competition
61%top-5 click share · 9 brands · 24 sellers

Flapen Score

Left Handed Shears against its category

The dotted line is the Beauty & Personal Care average. Past it, Left Handed Shears is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

43Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Left Handed Shears market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Left Handed Shears 55K times last year and spent an estimated $107K. The top 5 brands take 90% of clicks. Flapen scores it 43 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 5.0% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 55K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 5.0% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -6.1% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $107K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
55K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-6.1%
Conversion, latest week
5.0%
Market size, estimated
$107Ka year
Top search term
left handed shears16K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $38.66.

Listings sell for $38.66 on average, from $10.83 to $116.37. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 2K to 3K a year. The average listing sells 100 to 250 of them. At $38.66 that is $4K to $10K a year per listing.

Average price
$38.66inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$10.83–$116.37
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
2K–3K
Units per listing a year
100–250
Revenue per listing a year
$4K–$10K
Returns
1.2%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

71% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 94% ship with Prime. On an average day, 1.1% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #148 within Hair Cutting Tools. It carries 16,054 reviews at 4.58 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
71%
Prime listings
94%
Out of stock, average day
1.1%
Average rank
#148in Hair Cutting Tools
Average rating
4.58 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
16,054per listing
Listings tracked
17

04 · Newcomers

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

3 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 62 months on average, so the names here are established.

Launched, last 12 months
3
Successful launches
2Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
62 months

Products

Top Left Handed Shears 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 61% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

Brands

9 rising

Sellers

24

Top-5 brand share

90%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

61%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

7%

  • Brand 158%
  • Brand 217%
  • Brand 37%
  • Brand 45%
  • Brand 54%
  • Brand 63%
  • Open — no brand owns it (3 brands, 7%)

Search terms

Top Left Handed Shears search terms shoppers use

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

  • left handed shears16K/yr
  • equinox hair cutting scissors10K/yr
  • japanese shears8K/yr
  • mizutani scissors6K/yr
  • hachi shears7K/yr
  • equinox scissors4K/yr
  • tweezerman hair scissors3K/yr
  • mizutani shears3K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Left Handed Shears

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

31%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
20%of negative reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
1.2%of orders come back
“face it, they are waaaay cheap for their quality”
A buyer, on “Quality-Overall”20% 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 Left Handed Shears questions

Answered from the same tracked data.