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Trench Lighter

Maybe

Products sell for $23.91 on average, inside the sweet spot. But buyers convert on only 0.9% of searches, so Trench Lighter is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
57
57 / 100
Top 18% of 14,768 Health & Household niches · +8 vs the category median of 49
Market size
$65K/yr299K searches / yr
90-day growth
-11.1%search demand this quarter
Competition
28%top-5 click share · 39 brands · 62 sellers

Flapen Score

Trench Lighter against its category

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

57Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Trench Lighter market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Trench Lighter 299K times last year and spent an estimated $65K. The top 5 brands take 51% of clicks. Flapen scores it 57 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 0.9% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 299K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 0.9% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -11.1% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $65K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
299K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-11.1%
Conversion, latest week
0.9%
Market size, estimated
$65Ka year
Top search term
trench lighter140K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $23.91.

Listings sell for $23.91 on average, from $8.29 to $122.51. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 3K to 4K a year. The average listing sells 0 to 100 of them. At $23.91 that is $0 to $2K a year per listing.

Average price
$23.91inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$8.29–$122.51
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
3K–4K
Units per listing a year
0–100
Revenue per listing a year
$0–$2K
Returns
1.6%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

57% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 9.3% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #1,180 within Lighters & Matches. It carries 684 reviews at 4.10 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
57%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
9.3%
Average rank
#1,180in Lighters & Matches
Average rating
4.10 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
684per listing
Listings tracked
86

04 · Newcomers

0 of last year's 13 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

13 products launched here in the last 12 months. 0 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
13
Successful launches
0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
44 months

Products

Top Trench Lighter 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 28% of clicks. An open shelf where new products get seen.

Brands

39 falling

Sellers

62

Top-5 brand share

51%

Top 20: 89%

Top-5 click share

28%

Top 20: 60%

Open market

44%

  • Brand 119%
  • Brand 215%
  • Brand 36%
  • Brand 46%
  • Brand 56%
  • Brand 65%

Demand

Trench Lighter search demand

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

10K6KSpike '25Holiday '25SepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJun

Peak months: Nov, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.0× · 10 of 12 months tracked

Search terms

Top Trench Lighter search terms shoppers use

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

  • trench lighter140K/yr
  • kerosene lighter51K/yr
  • brass lighter26K/yr
  • antique lighters vintage10K/yr
  • vintage trench lighter12K/yr
  • steampunk lighter13K/yr
  • vintage butane lighter7K/yr
  • oil lighter6K/yr
  • ww2 lighter5K/yr
  • trench lighters6K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Trench Lighter

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

16%of positive reviews mention “Weight Light”
13%of negative reviews mention “Functionality-Overall”
1.6%of orders come back
“does not work well”
A buyer, on “Functionality-Overall”13% 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 Trench Lighter questions

Answered from the same tracked data.