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Tacky Towel

Maybe

An estimated 0.9% of orders come back. But the top 5 brands take 98% of clicks, so Tacky Towel is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
56
56 / 100
Top 19% of 8,101 Sports & Outdoors niches · +9 vs the category median of 47
Market size
$40K/yr20K searches / yr
90-day growth
+70.9%search demand this quarter
Competition
66%top-5 click share · 6 brands · 23 sellers

Flapen Score

Tacky Towel against its category

The dotted line is the Sports & Outdoors average. Past it, Tacky Towel is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

56Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Tacky Towel market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Tacky Towel 20K times last year and spent an estimated $40K. The top 5 brands take 98% of clicks. Flapen scores it 56 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 12.6% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 20K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 12.6% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +70.9% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $40K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
20K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+70.9%
Conversion, latest week
12.6%
Market size, estimated
$40Ka year
Top search term
tacky towel12K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $15.43.

Listings sell for $15.43 on average, from $7.92 to $29.74. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 3K to 4K a year. The average listing sells 100 to 250 of them. At $15.43 that is $2K to $4K a year per listing.

Average price
$15.43inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$7.92–$29.74
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
3K–4K
Units per listing a year
100–250
Revenue per listing a year
$2K–$4K
Returns
0.9%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

69% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 88% ship with Prime. On an average day, 10.9% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #183 within On-Course Accessories. It carries 1,056 reviews at 4.28 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
69%
Prime listings
88%
Out of stock, average day
10.9%
Average rank
#183in On-Course Accessories
Average rating
4.28 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
1,056per listing
Listings tracked
16

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 60 months on average, so the names here are established.

Launched, last 12 months
3
Successful launches
1Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
60 months

Products

Top Tacky Towel 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 66% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

Brands

6 rising

Sellers

23

Top-5 brand share

98%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

66%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

0%

  • Brand 132%
  • Brand 226%
  • Brand 323%
  • Brand 414%
  • Brand 52%
  • Brand 62%
  • Open — no brand owns it (0%)

Demand

Tacky Towel search demand

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

800600Spike '26SepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJul

Peak months: May, Jun, Jul · busiest ÷ quietest = 3.7× · 11 of 12 months tracked

Search terms

Top Tacky Towel search terms shoppers use

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

  • tacky towel12K/yr
  • tacky towel for tennis6K/yr
  • gamma tacky towel3K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Tacky Towel

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

22%of positive reviews mention “Grip”
14%of negative reviews mention “Adhesion/Stickiness”
0.9%of orders come back
“I just found the stickiness to be more annoying than helpful”
A buyer, on “Adhesion/Stickiness”14% 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.

21 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Tacky Towel questions

Answered from the same tracked data.