Matchbooks
FailDemand is soft, at -8.0% this quarter, so Matchbooks is a Fail.
- Flapen Score
- 47 / 100Ranks 8,381 of 14,768 Health & Household niches · −2 vs the category median of 4947
- 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.
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.
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.
“Cheap quality”
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
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FAQ
Common Matchbooks questions
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