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Plastic Sleeves

Fail

The top 5 brands take 96% of clicks, so Plastic Sleeves is a Fail.

Flapen Score
38
38 / 100
Ranks 350 of 426 Office Products niches · −9 vs the category median of 47
Market size
$54K/yr41K searches / yr
90-day growth
-4.8%search demand this quarter
Competition
67%top-5 click share · 7 brands · 61 sellers

Flapen Score

Plastic Sleeves against its category

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

38Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Plastic Sleeves market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Plastic Sleeves 41K times last year and spent an estimated $54K. The top 5 brands take 96% of clicks. Demand peaks in Aug–Sep. Flapen scores it 38 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 10.3% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 41K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 10.3% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -4.8% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $54K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
41K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-4.8%
Conversion, latest week
10.3%
Market size, estimated
$54Ka year
Peak month
August4.3× the quietest month
Top search term
heavy duty page protectors14K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $12.80.

Listings sell for $12.80 on average, from $5.29 to $25.12. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 5K to 6K a year. The average listing sells 250 to 500 of them. At $12.80 that is $3K to $6K a year per listing.

Average price
$12.80under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$5.29–$25.12
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
5K–6K
Units per listing a year
250–500
Revenue per listing a year
$3K–$6K
Returns
0.5%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, 0.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #62 within Binders & Binding Systems. It carries 8,321 reviews at 4.67 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
100%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#62in Binders & Binding Systems
Average rating
4.67 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
8,321per listing
Listings tracked
16

04 · Newcomers

Brands here are settling in.

The brands on the shelf have sold for 55 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
55 months

Products

Top Plastic Sleeves 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 67% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

Brands

7 falling

Sellers

61

Top-5 brand share

96%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

67%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

2%

  • Brand 160%
  • Brand 220%
  • Brand 37%
  • Brand 45%
  • Brand 54%
  • Brand 62%
  • Open — no brand owns it (1 brand, 2%)

Demand

Plastic Sleeves search demand

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

10K6KSpike '25Prime Day '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Aug, Sep · busiest ÷ quietest = 4.3×

Search terms

Top Plastic Sleeves search terms shoppers use

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

  • heavy duty page protectors14K/yr
  • non glare sheet protectors11K/yr
  • non glare sheet protectors for 3 ring binder4K/yr
  • sheet protectors non glare4K/yr
  • file protector3K/yr
  • archival sheet protectors3K/yr
  • anti glare sheet protectors2K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Plastic Sleeves

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

26%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
21%of negative reviews mention “Thickness”
0.5%of orders come back
“some paper can be thicker”
A buyer, on “Thickness”21% 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.

14 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Plastic Sleeves questions

Answered from the same tracked data.