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Gold Birthday Candles

Fail

Prices span $3.95–$12.65, mostly outside the sweet spot, so Gold Birthday Candles is a Fail.

Flapen Score
45
45 / 100
Ranks 7,297 of 11,240 Home & Kitchen niches · −4 vs the category median of 49
Market size
$132K/yr161K searches / yr
90-day growth
-5.0%search demand this quarter
Competition
52%top-5 click share · 15 brands · 26 sellers

Flapen Score

Gold Birthday Candles against its category

The dotted line is the Home & Kitchen average. Past it, Gold Birthday Candles is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

45Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Gold Birthday Candles market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Gold Birthday Candles 161K times last year and spent an estimated $132K. The top 5 brands take 76% of clicks. Flapen scores it 45 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 13.4% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 161K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 13.4% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -5.0% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $132K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
161K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-5.0%
Conversion, latest week
13.4%
Market size, estimated
$132Ka year
Peak month
March1.4× the quietest month
Top search term
gold birthday candles88K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $6.12.

Listings sell for $6.12 on average, from $3.95 to $12.65. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 20K to 25K a year. The average listing sells 750 to 1,000 of them. At $6.12 that is $5K to $6K a year per listing.

Average price
$6.12under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$3.95–$12.65
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
20K–25K
Units per listing a year
750–1,000
Revenue per listing a year
$5K–$6K
Returns
1.5%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is ads.

100% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 2.1% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #271 within Candles. It carries 1,395 reviews at 4.66 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
100%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
2.1%
Average rank
#271in Candles
Average rating
4.66 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
1,395per listing
Listings tracked
25

04 · Newcomers

1 of last year's 3 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

3 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
3
Successful launches
1Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
39 months

Products

Top Gold Birthday Candles 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 52% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

Brands

15 falling

Sellers

26

Top-5 brand share

76%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

52%

Top 20: 94%

Open market

20%

  • Brand 139%
  • Brand 217%
  • Brand 310%
  • Brand 46%
  • Brand 55%
  • Brand 64%

Demand

Gold Birthday Candles search demand

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

4K3KSpike '25Prime Day '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.4×

Search terms

Top Gold Birthday Candles search terms shoppers use

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

  • gold birthday candles88K/yr
  • gold candles for cake31K/yr
  • gold cake candles15K/yr
  • gold candles birthday12K/yr
  • birthday candles gold9K/yr
  • gold birthday candle6K/yr
  • gold candles for birthday cakes56/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Gold Birthday Candles

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

19%of positive reviews mention “Brightness/Shine/Glow”
18%of negative reviews mention “Size-Overall”
1.5%of orders come back
“they were too long for the cake that I had”
A buyer, on “Size-Overall”18% 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 Gold Birthday Candles questions

Answered from the same tracked data.