Black Straws
FailPrices span $4.05–$14.65, mostly outside the sweet spot, so Black Straws is a Fail.
- Flapen Score
- 48 / 100Ranks 7,720 of 14,768 Health & Household niches · −1 vs the category median of 4948
- Market size
- $138K/yr163K searches / yr
- 90-day growth
- +24.7%search demand this quarter
- Competition
- 65%top-5 click share · 17 brands · 45 sellers
Flapen Score
Black Straws against its category
The dotted line is the Health & Household average. Past it, Black Straws is stronger. Inside it, weaker.
Market
The Black Straws market on Amazon at a glance
Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Black Straws 163K times last year and spent an estimated $138K. The top 5 brands take 67% of clicks. Demand peaks in Oct. Flapen scores it 48 out of 100, a Fail.
01 · Demand
An estimated 10.6% of those searches ended in a purchase.
Shoppers searched for this 163K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 10.6% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +24.7% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $138K a year.
- Searches, last 12 months
- 163K
- Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
- +24.7%
- Conversion, latest week
- 10.6%
- Market size, estimated
- $138Ka year
- Peak month
- October2.4× the quietest month
- Top search term
- black straws104K searches a year
02 · Price
A sale here is worth $8.05.
Listings sell for $8.05 on average, from $4.05 to $14.65. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 20K to 25K a year. The average listing sells 750 to 1,000 of them. At $8.05 that is $6K to $8K a year per listing.
- Average price
- $8.05under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
- Price range
- $4.05–$14.65
- Amazon United States median price
- $24.38across 115,062 niches
- Units sold a year
- 20K–25K
- Units per listing a year
- 750–1,000
- Revenue per listing a year
- $6K–$8K
- Returns
- 1.2%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%
03 · Entry bar
The bar here is reviews.
80% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 1.5% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #85 within Disposable Drinkware. It carries 1,600 reviews at 4.65 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.
- Sponsored listings
- 80%
- Prime listings
- 100%
- Out of stock, average day
- 1.5%
- Average rank
- #85in Disposable Drinkware
- Average rating
- 4.65 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
- Average reviews
- 1,600per listing
- Listings tracked
- 20
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 38 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
- 38 months
Products
Top Black Straws 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 65% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.
Brands
17 rising
Sellers
45
Top-5 brand share
67%
Top 20: 100%
Top-5 click share
65%
Top 20: 100%
Open market
26%
- Brand 125%
- Brand 216%
- Brand 310%
- Brand 48%
- Brand 58%
- Brand 67%
Demand
Black Straws search demand
Weekly searches over the year, seasonality beneath. Pick a range.
Peak months: Oct · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.4×
Search terms
Top Black Straws search terms shoppers use
The exact words shoppers type, with yearly volume, growth, and conversion.
- black straws104K/yr
- black plastic straws16K/yr
- black straws plastic20K/yr
- black straw8K/yr
- straws black6K/yr
- black drinking straws5K/yr
- black disposable straws4K/yr
Reviews and returns
What reviews say buyers love and hate about Black Straws
We read the reviews and the return reasons for every product selling here.
“Shorter than I thought”
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
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