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Plastic Butterfly Knife

Maybe

The products selling today average only 4.1★. But demand is soft, at -40.4% this quarter, so Plastic Butterfly Knife is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
53
53 / 100
Top 28% of 8,101 Sports & Outdoors niches · +6 vs the category median of 47
Market size
$79K/yr275K searches / yr
90-day growth
-40.4%search demand this quarter
Competition
40%top-5 click share · 23 brands · 41 sellers

Flapen Score

Plastic Butterfly Knife against its category

The dotted line is the Sports & Outdoors average. Past it, Plastic Butterfly Knife is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

53Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Plastic Butterfly Knife market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Plastic Butterfly Knife 275K times last year and spent an estimated $79K. The top 5 brands take 56% of clicks. Demand peaks in Feb–Dec. Flapen scores it 53 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 2.1% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 275K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 2.1% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -40.4% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $79K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
275K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-40.4%
Conversion, latest week
2.1%
Market size, estimated
$79Ka year
Peak month
December2.0× the quietest month
Top search term
toy butterfly knife47K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $13.67.

Listings sell for $13.67 on average, from $6.33 to $28.95. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 5K to 6K a year. The average listing sells 100 to 250 of them. At $13.67 that is $1K to $3K a year per listing.

Average price
$13.67under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$6.33–$28.95
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
5K–6K
Units per listing a year
100–250
Revenue per listing a year
$1K–$3K
Returns
1.2%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

72% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 5.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #840 within Other Sports. It carries 735 reviews at 4.06 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
72%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
5.0%
Average rank
#840in Other Sports
Average rating
4.06 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
735per listing
Listings tracked
36

04 · Newcomers

1 of last year's 2 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

2 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 38 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
2
Successful launches
1Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
38 months

Products

Top Plastic Butterfly Knife 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 40% of clicks. An open shelf where new products get seen.

Brands

23 rising

Sellers

41

Top-5 brand share

56%

Top 20: 98%

Top-5 click share

40%

Top 20: 88%

Open market

38%

  • Brand 115%
  • Brand 213%
  • Brand 311%
  • Brand 49%
  • Brand 58%
  • Brand 66%

Demand

Plastic Butterfly Knife search demand

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

9K7KSpike '25Black Friday '25Spike '26JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJun

Peak months: Feb, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.0×

Search terms

Top Plastic Butterfly Knife search terms shoppers use

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

  • toy butterfly knife47K/yr
  • plastic butterfly knife54K/yr
  • butterfly knife toy36K/yr
  • 3d printed butterfly knife21K/yr
  • butterfly knife plastic23K/yr
  • fidget butterfly knife17K/yr
  • butterfly knife for kids13K/yr
  • plastic balisong10K/yr
  • butterfly knife fidget13K/yr
  • butterfly knife trainer plastic11K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Plastic Butterfly Knife

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

16%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
29%of negative reviews mention “Durability”
1.2%of orders come back
“Breaks easily”
A buyer, on “Durability”29% 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 Plastic Butterfly Knife questions

Answered from the same tracked data.