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Fake Ice

Fail

The products selling today already average 4.5★, so Fake Ice is a Fail.

Flapen Score
48
48 / 100
Ranks 5,923 of 11,240 Home & Kitchen niches · −1 vs the category median of 49
Market size
$194K/yr201K searches / yr
90-day growth
+11.6%search demand this quarter
Competition
56%top-5 click share · 19 brands · 21 sellers

Flapen Score

Fake Ice against its category

The dotted line is the Home & Kitchen average. Past it, Fake Ice is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

48Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Fake Ice market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Fake Ice 201K times last year and spent an estimated $194K. The top 5 brands take 80% of clicks. Demand peaks in Oct. Flapen scores it 48 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 7.2% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 201K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 7.2% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +11.6% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $194K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
201K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+11.6%
Conversion, latest week
7.2%
Market size, estimated
$194Ka year
Peak month
October1.4× the quietest month
Top search term
fake ice92K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $13.46.

Listings sell for $13.46 on average, from $5.48 to $60.44. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 15K to 20K a year. The average listing sells 500 to 750 of them. At $13.46 that is $7K to $10K a year per listing.

Average price
$13.46under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$5.48–$60.44
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–$10K
Returns
3.5%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is ads and reviews.

93% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #353 within Vase Fillers. It carries 1,652 reviews at 4.53 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
93%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#353in Vase Fillers
Average rating
4.53 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
1,652per listing
Listings tracked
28

04 · Newcomers

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

6 products launched here in the last 12 months. 1 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 39 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
6
Successful launches
1Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
39 months

Products

Top Fake Ice 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 56% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

Brands

19 rising

Sellers

21

Top-5 brand share

80%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

56%

Top 20: 93%

Open market

17%

  • Brand 142%
  • Brand 224%
  • Brand 36%
  • Brand 44%
  • Brand 53%
  • Brand 63%
  • Open — no brand owns it (13 brands, 17%)

Demand

Fake Ice search demand

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

5K3KSpike '24Spike '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Oct · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.4×

Search terms

Top Fake Ice search terms shoppers use

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

  • fake ice92K/yr
  • fake ice cubes65K/yr
  • acrylic ice cubes11K/yr
  • artificial ice cubes7K/yr
  • fake ice cube8K/yr
  • artificial ice7K/yr
  • faux ice cubes5K/yr
  • acrylic ice3K/yr
  • pretend ice cubes3K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Fake Ice

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

14%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
22%of negative reviews mention “Size-Overall”
3.5%of orders come back
“These are VERY SMALL cubes”
A buyer, on “Size-Overall”22% 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 Fake Ice questions

Answered from the same tracked data.