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Black Christmas Lights

Fail

Shoppers spend only $58K a year here, so Black Christmas Lights is a Fail.

Flapen Score
47
47 / 100
Ranks 4,985 of 9,536 Tools & Home Improvement niches · −1 vs the category median of 48
Market size
$58K/yr72K searches / yr
90-day growth
+18.8%search demand this quarter
Competition
48%top-5 click share · 20 brands · 27 sellers

Flapen Score

Black Christmas Lights against its category

The dotted line is the Tools & Home Improvement average. Past it, Black Christmas Lights is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

47Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Black Christmas Lights market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Black Christmas Lights 72K times last year and spent an estimated $58K. The top 5 brands take 68% of clicks. Demand peaks in Oct–Nov–Dec. Flapen scores it 47 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

4.4% of searches ended in a purchase last week.

Shoppers searched for this 72K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. In the latest week, 4.4% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +18.8% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $58K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
72K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+18.8%
Conversion, latest week
4.4%
Market size, estimated
$58Ka year
Peak month
November19.0× the quietest month
Top search term
black string lights20K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $17.99.

Listings sell for $17.99 on average, from $7.50 to $60.47. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 3K to 4K a year. The average listing sells 0 to 100 of them. At $17.99 that is $0 to $2K a year per listing.

Average price
$17.99inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$7.50–$60.47
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
3K–4K
Units per listing a year
0–100
Revenue per listing a year
$0–$2K
Returns
5.0%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

90% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 11.3% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #663 within String Lights. It carries 3,172 reviews at 4.46 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
90%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
11.3%
Average rank
#663in String Lights
Average rating
4.46 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
3,172per listing
Listings tracked
29

04 · Newcomers

Amazon counts 1 of last year's 2 launches as successful.

2 products launched here in the last 12 months. Amazon counts 1 of them as successful launches, new products that hit its first-year sales bar. The brands on the shelf have sold for 42 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
42 months

Products

Top Black Christmas Lights products & what they sell for

Every tracked product: its share of the shelf, its reviews, and its price.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take 48% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

$0$2K$5K$7K$9K101001K10K100K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

20 falling

Sellers

27

Top-5 brand share

68%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

48%

Top 20: 90%

Open market

27%

  • CXLHO24%
  • FULLBELL16%
  • YULETIME15%
  • Brightown7%
  • Dobar7%
  • Solhice5%

Demand

Black Christmas Lights search demand

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

9K7KBlack Friday '24Spike '25Prime Day '25Black Friday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Oct, Nov, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 19.0×

Search terms

Top Black Christmas Lights search terms shoppers use

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

  • black string lights20K/yr
  • black christmas lights26K/yr
  • black wire christmas lights9K/yr
  • christmas lights black wire5K/yr
  • black string christmas lights3K/yr
  • black christmas tree lights6K/yr
  • black christmas lights for tree3K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Black Christmas Lights

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

39%of positive reviews mention “Brightness/Shine/Glow”
16%of negative reviews mention “Durability”
5.0%of orders come back
“Broke after 5 months”
A buyer, on “Durability”16% 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 Black Christmas Lights questions

Answered from the same tracked data.