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Small Hair Ties

Maybe

An estimated 0.8% of orders come back. But prices span $2.76–$9.80, mostly outside the sweet spot, so Small Hair Ties is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
56
56 / 100
Top 17% of 10,978 Beauty & Personal Care niches · +8 vs the category median of 48
Market size
$182K/yr281K searches / yr
90-day growth
+24.4%search demand this quarter
Competition
42%top-5 click share · 21 brands · 82 sellers

Flapen Score

Small Hair Ties against its category

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

56Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Small Hair Ties market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Small Hair Ties 281K times last year and spent an estimated $182K. The top 5 brands take 62% of clicks. Demand peaks in Aug–Sep. Flapen scores it 56 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 11.0% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 281K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 11.0% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +24.4% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $182K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
281K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+24.4%
Conversion, latest week
11.0%
Market size, estimated
$182Ka year
Peak month
August2.4× the quietest month
Top search term
small elastic hair ties61K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $5.91.

Listings sell for $5.91 on average, from $2.76 to $9.80. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 30K to 40K a year. The average listing sells 750 to 1,000 of them. At $5.91 that is $4K to $6K a year per listing.

Average price
$5.91under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$2.76–$9.80
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
30K–40K
Units per listing a year
750–1,000
Revenue per listing a year
$4K–$6K
Returns
0.8%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

78% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #96 within Elastics & Ties. It carries 10,632 reviews at 4.49 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
78%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#96in Elastics & Ties
Average rating
4.49 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
10,632per listing
Listings tracked
36

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

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

Products

Top Small Hair Ties 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 42% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

Brands

21 falling

Sellers

82

Top-5 brand share

62%

Top 20: 99%

Top-5 click share

42%

Top 20: 83%

Open market

33%

  • Brand 125%
  • Brand 215%
  • Brand 39%
  • Brand 47%
  • Brand 56%
  • Brand 65%

Demand

Small Hair Ties search demand

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

20K15KSpike '24Spike '25Prime Day '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Aug, Sep · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.4×

Search terms

Top Small Hair Ties search terms shoppers use

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

  • small elastic hair ties61K/yr
  • tiny hair elastics34K/yr
  • mini elastic hair ties30K/yr
  • mini hair elastics25K/yr
  • small black hair ties21K/yr
  • tiny elastic hair ties13K/yr
  • small elastic hair bands12K/yr
  • small hair rubber bands no damage9K/yr
  • tiny hair bands9K/yr
  • hair ties small elastic8K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Small Hair Ties

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

13%of positive reviews mention “Durability”
33%of negative reviews mention “Durability”
0.8%of orders come back
“Do not last”
A buyer, on “Durability”33% 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 Small Hair Ties questions

Answered from the same tracked data.