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Black Cups

Maybe

An estimated 0.8% of orders come back. But the products selling today already average 4.6★, so Black Cups is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
61
61 / 100
Top 9% of 14,768 Health & Household niches · +12 vs the category median of 49
Market size
$275K/yr311K searches / yr
90-day growth
+2.3%search demand this quarter
Competition
33%top-5 click share · 32 brands · 41 sellers

Flapen Score

Black Cups against its category

The dotted line is the Health & Household average. Past it, Black Cups is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

61Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Black Cups market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Black Cups 311K times last year and spent an estimated $275K. The top 5 brands take 48% of clicks. Demand peaks in Oct. Flapen scores it 61 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 5.3% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 311K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 5.3% 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 $275K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
311K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+2.3%
Conversion, latest week
5.3%
Market size, estimated
$275Ka year
Peak month
October2.3× the quietest month
Top search term
black cups105K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $16.56.

Listings sell for $16.56 on average, from $4.80 to $30.82. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 15K to 20K a year. The average listing sells 250 to 500 of them. At $16.56 that is $4K to $8K a year per listing.

Average price
$16.56inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$4.80–$30.82
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
15K–20K
Units per listing a year
250–500
Revenue per listing a year
$4K–$8K
Returns
0.8%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is ads.

96% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.1% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #639 within Disposable Drinkware. It carries 676 reviews at 4.64 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
96%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
0.1%
Average rank
#639in Disposable Drinkware
Average rating
4.64 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
676per listing
Listings tracked
47

04 · Newcomers

11 of last year's 16 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

16 products launched here in the last 12 months. 11 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 37 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
16
Successful launches
11Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
37 months

Products

Top Black Cups 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 only 33% of clicks. An open shelf where new products get seen.

Brands

32 falling

Sellers

41

Top-5 brand share

48%

Top 20: 88%

Top-5 click share

33%

Top 20: 73%

Open market

46%

  • Brand 113%
  • Brand 212%
  • Brand 39%
  • Brand 48%
  • Brand 56%
  • Brand 66%

Demand

Black Cups search demand

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

15K10KSpike '24Spike '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Oct · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.3×

Search terms

Top Black Cups search terms shoppers use

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

  • black cups105K/yr
  • black plastic cups81K/yr
  • black disposable cups36K/yr
  • black cups for party24K/yr
  • black party cups22K/yr
  • plastic cups black6K/yr
  • black plastic cup5K/yr
  • black solo cups 12 oz5K/yr
  • vasos negros4K/yr
  • cups black4K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Black Cups

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

24%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
14%of negative reviews mention “Size-Overall”
0.8%of orders come back
“Smaller than expected”
A buyer, on “Size-Overall”14% 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.

17 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Black Cups questions

Answered from the same tracked data.