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Folding Crutches

Fail

An estimated 12.4% of orders come back, so Folding Crutches is a Fail.

Flapen Score
44
44 / 100
Ranks 10,233 of 14,768 Health & Household niches · −5 vs the category median of 49
Market size
$57K/yr24K searches / yr
90-day growth
+17.2%search demand this quarter
Competition
68%top-5 click share · 16 brands · 40 sellers

Flapen Score

Folding Crutches against its category

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

44Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Folding Crutches market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Folding Crutches 24K times last year and spent an estimated $57K. The top 5 brands take 68% of clicks. Demand peaks in May. Flapen scores it 44 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 3.9% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 24K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 3.9% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +17.2% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $57K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
24K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+17.2%
Conversion, latest week
3.9%
Market size, estimated
$57Ka year
Peak month
May1.7× the quietest month
Top search term
foldable crutches10K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $59.24.

Listings sell for $59.24 on average, from $32.28 to $142.16. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 1K to 1K a year. The average listing sells 100 to 250 of them. At $59.24 that is $6K to $15K a year per listing.

Average price
$59.24inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$32.28–$142.16
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
1K–1K
Units per listing a year
100–250
Revenue per listing a year
$6K–$15K
Returns
12.4%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is ads.

94% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 94% ship with Prime. On an average day, 3.4% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #148 within Mobility Aids & Equipment. It carries 558 reviews at 4.18 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
94%
Prime listings
94%
Out of stock, average day
3.4%
Average rank
#148in Mobility Aids & Equipment
Average rating
4.18 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
558per listing
Listings tracked
17

04 · Newcomers

6 of last year's 7 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

7 products launched here in the last 12 months. 6 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 44 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
7
Successful launches
6Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
44 months

Products

Top Folding Crutches 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 68% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

Brands

16 rising

Sellers

40

Top-5 brand share

68%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

68%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

25%

  • Brand 130%
  • Brand 211%
  • Brand 310%
  • Brand 410%
  • Brand 57%
  • Brand 67%

Demand

Folding Crutches search demand

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

700500Black Friday '24Spike '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: May · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.7×

Search terms

Top Folding Crutches search terms shoppers use

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

  • foldable crutches10K/yr
  • folding crutches8K/yr
  • foldable crutches for adults5K/yr
  • folding crutches for travel2K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Folding Crutches

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

10%of positive reviews mention “Weight Light”
7%of negative reviews mention “Size-Overall”
12.4%of orders come back
“Didnt Fit”
A buyer, on “Size-Overall”7% 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.

19 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Folding Crutches questions

Answered from the same tracked data.