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Matchbooks

Fail

Demand is soft, at -8.0% this quarter, so Matchbooks is a Fail.

Flapen Score
47
47 / 100
Ranks 8,381 of 14,768 Health & Household niches · −2 vs the category median of 49
Market size
$163K/yr352K searches / yr
90-day growth
-8.0%search demand this quarter
Competition
69%top-5 click share · 12 brands · 81 sellers

Flapen Score

Matchbooks against its category

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

47Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Matchbooks market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Matchbooks 352K times last year and spent an estimated $163K. The top 5 brands take 80% of clicks. Flapen scores it 47 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 3.3% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 352K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 3.3% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -8.0% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $163K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
352K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-8.0%
Conversion, latest week
3.3%
Market size, estimated
$163Ka year
Peak month
December1.5× the quietest month
Top search term
matchbooks107K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $14.02.

Listings sell for $14.02 on average, from $4.10 to $23.96. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 15K to 20K a year. The average listing sells 500 to 750 of them. At $14.02 that is $7K to $11K a year per listing.

Average price
$14.02under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$4.10–$23.96
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
15K–20K
Units per listing a year
500–750
Revenue per listing a year
$7K–$11K
Returns
0.3%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

40% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 27% ship with Prime. On an average day, 1.3% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #102 within Lighters & Matches. It carries 1,444 reviews at 4.20 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
40%
Prime listings
27%
Out of stock, average day
1.3%
Average rank
#102in Lighters & Matches
Average rating
4.20 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
1,444per listing
Listings tracked
15

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 44 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
44 months

Products

Top Matchbooks 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 69% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

Brands

12 falling

Sellers

81

Top-5 brand share

80%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

69%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

17%

  • Brand 149%
  • Brand 210%
  • Brand 39%
  • Brand 47%
  • Brand 54%
  • Brand 64%
  • Open — no brand owns it (6 brands, 17%)

Demand

Matchbooks search demand

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

9K7KHoliday '24Prime Day '25Spike '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.5×

Search terms

Top Matchbooks search terms shoppers use

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

  • matchbooks107K/yr
  • match books49K/yr
  • matchbook38K/yr
  • match book26K/yr
  • matchbooks bulk20K/yr
  • blank matchbooks18K/yr
  • match books in bulk16K/yr
  • book matches15K/yr
  • book of matches11K/yr
  • match books with matches6K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Matchbooks

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

15%of positive reviews mention “Advertised Vs Actual Product”
21%of negative reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
0.3%of orders come back
“Cheap quality”
A buyer, on “Quality-Overall”21% 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 Matchbooks questions

Answered from the same tracked data.