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Purple Tail

Fail

Shoppers spend an estimated $17K a year here, so Purple Tail is a Fail.

Flapen Score
48
48 / 100
Top 37% of 16,930 Clothing, Shoes & Jewelry niches · +3 vs the category median of 45
Market size
$17K/yr100K searches / yr
90-day growth
+2.3%search demand this quarter
Competition
43%top-5 click share · 26 brands · 48 sellers

Flapen Score

Purple Tail against its category

The dotted line is the Clothing, Shoes & Jewelry average. Past it, Purple Tail is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

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

Market

The Purple Tail market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Purple Tail 100K times last year and spent an estimated $17K. The top 5 brands take 56% of clicks. Flapen scores it 48 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 0.7% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 100K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 0.7% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +2.3% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $17K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
100K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+2.3%
Conversion, latest week
0.7%
Market size, estimated
$17Ka year
Top search term
catnap costume35K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $23.13.

Listings sell for $23.13 on average, from $5.97 to $59.29. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 750 to 1K a year. The average listing sells 0 to 100 of them. At $23.13 that is $0 to $2K a year per listing.

Average price
$23.13inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$5.97–$59.29
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
750–1K
Units per listing a year
0–100
Revenue per listing a year
$0–$2K
Returns
2.7%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

76% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 88% ship with Prime. On an average day, 30.8% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #6,576 within Boys. It carries 234 reviews at 4.43 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
76%
Prime listings
88%
Out of stock, average day
30.8%
Average rank
#6,576in Boys
Average rating
4.43 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
234per listing
Listings tracked
34

04 · Newcomers

2 of last year's 9 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

9 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 33 months on average, so a newcomer is not facing entrenched names.

Launched, last 12 months
9
Successful launches
2Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
33 months

Products

Top Purple Tail 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 43% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

Brands

26 falling

Sellers

48

Top-5 brand share

56%

Top 20: 95%

Top-5 click share

43%

Top 20: 85%

Open market

39%

  • Brand 116%
  • Brand 214%
  • Brand 313%
  • Brand 48%
  • Brand 56%
  • Brand 65%

Demand

Purple Tail search demand

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

5K4KSpike '26NovDecJanFebMarAprMayJun

Peak months: Mar, Nov · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.8× · 8 of 12 months tracked

Search terms

Top Purple Tail search terms shoppers use

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

  • catnap costume35K/yr
  • purple tail14K/yr
  • cat nap costume16K/yr
  • purple cat tail8K/yr
  • catnap costume for kids22K/yr
  • cat nap costume for kids4K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Purple Tail

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

26%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
18%of negative reviews mention “Size-Overall”
2.7%of orders come back
“The size was big”
A buyer, on “Size-Overall”18% 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 Purple Tail questions

Answered from the same tracked data.