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Piercing

Fail

Demand is soft, at -18.7% this quarter, so Piercing is a Fail.

Flapen Score
48
48 / 100
Ranks 5,071 of 10,978 Beauty & Personal Care niches · on the category median
Market size
$94K/yr286K searches / yr
90-day growth
-18.7%search demand this quarter
Competition
49%top-5 click share · 20 brands · 21 sellers

Flapen Score

Piercing against its category

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

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

Market

The Piercing market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Piercing 286K times last year and spent an estimated $94K. The top 5 brands take 60% of clicks. Demand peaks in Aug–Sep. Flapen scores it 48 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 2.5% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 286K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 2.5% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -18.7% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $94K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
286K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-18.7%
Conversion, latest week
2.5%
Market size, estimated
$94Ka year
Peak month
August1.8× the quietest month
Top search term
body piercing kits86K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $12.92.

Listings sell for $12.92 on average, from $6.09 to $20.21. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 6K to 8K a year. The average listing sells 100 to 250 of them. At $12.92 that is $1K to $3K a year per listing.

Average price
$12.92under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$6.09–$20.21
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
6K–8K
Units per listing a year
100–250
Revenue per listing a year
$1K–$3K
Returns
0.5%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

80% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 1.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #1,109 within Piercing & Tattoo Supplies. It carries 1,099 reviews at 4.46 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
80%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
1.0%
Average rank
#1,109in Piercing & Tattoo Supplies
Average rating
4.46 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
1,099per listing
Listings tracked
30

04 · Newcomers

1 of last year's 1 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

1 products launched here in the last 12 months. 1 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 42 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
1
Successful launches
1Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
42 months

Products

Top Piercing 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 49% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

Brands

20 falling

Sellers

21

Top-5 brand share

60%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

49%

Top 20: 89%

Open market

33%

  • Brand 117%
  • Brand 215%
  • Brand 312%
  • Brand 49%
  • Brand 58%
  • Brand 67%

Demand

Piercing search demand

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

13K8KSpike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Aug, Sep · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.8×

Search terms

Top Piercing search terms shoppers use

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

  • body piercing kits86K/yr
  • lip piercing kit57K/yr
  • piercing kit with jewelry40K/yr
  • industrial piercing kit19K/yr
  • body piercing kit20K/yr
  • professional piercing kit16K/yr
  • piercing jewelry kit9K/yr
  • piercing stuff9K/yr
  • piercing kits for all piercings19K/yr
  • practice piercing kit5K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Piercing

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

30%of positive reviews mention “Ease Of Use”
23%of negative reviews mention “Size-Overall”
0.5%of orders come back
“They are too short”
A buyer, on “Size-Overall”23% 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 Piercing questions

Answered from the same tracked data.