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Plastic Sleeve

Fail

Shoppers spend an estimated $66K a year here, so Plastic Sleeve is a Fail.

Flapen Score
42
42 / 100
Ranks 298 of 426 Office Products niches · −5 vs the category median of 47
Market size
$66K/yr88K searches / yr
90-day growth
-11.6%search demand this quarter
Competition
58%top-5 click share · 14 brands · 21 sellers

Flapen Score

Plastic Sleeve against its category

The dotted line is the Office Products average. Past it, Plastic Sleeve is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

42Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Plastic Sleeve market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Plastic Sleeve 88K times last year and spent an estimated $66K. The top 5 brands take 72% of clicks. Flapen scores it 42 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 7.7% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 88K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 7.7% 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 $66K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
88K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-11.6%
Conversion, latest week
7.7%
Market size, estimated
$66Ka year
Peak month
August1.6× the quietest month
Top search term
plastic sleeve16K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $9.79.

Listings sell for $9.79 on average, from $4.79 to $24.62. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 6K to 8K a year. The average listing sells 250 to 500 of them. At $9.79 that is $2K to $5K a year per listing.

Average price
$9.79under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$4.79–$24.62
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
6K–8K
Units per listing a year
250–500
Revenue per listing a year
$2K–$5K
Returns
0.6%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is ads and reviews.

100% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.4% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #55 within Binders & Binding Systems. It carries 5,322 reviews at 4.73 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
100%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
0.4%
Average rank
#55in Binders & Binding Systems
Average rating
4.73 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
5,322per listing
Listings tracked
19

04 · Newcomers

Brands here are settling in.

The brands on the shelf have sold for 47 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
0
Successful launches
0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
47 months

Products

Top Plastic Sleeve 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 58% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

Brands

14 rising

Sellers

21

Top-5 brand share

72%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

58%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

22%

  • Brand 139%
  • Brand 210%
  • Brand 39%
  • Brand 49%
  • Brand 56%
  • Brand 66%

Demand

Plastic Sleeve search demand

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

2K2KSpike '25Prime Day '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.6×

Search terms

Top Plastic Sleeve search terms shoppers use

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

  • plastic sleeve16K/yr
  • document sleeve15K/yr
  • clear folder sleeves15K/yr
  • plastic document sleeve12K/yr
  • document sleeves8K/yr
  • plastic sleeves for documents8K/yr
  • a4 plastic sleeves5K/yr
  • folder sleeves5K/yr
  • 8.5 x 11 clear plastic sleeves3K/yr
  • clear plastic sleeve3K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Plastic Sleeve

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

20%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
20%of negative reviews mention “Thickness”
0.6%of orders come back
“Could have been thicker”
A buyer, on “Thickness”20% 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 Plastic Sleeve questions

Answered from the same tracked data.