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C9 Light String

Fail

Shoppers spend only $27K a year here, so C9 Light String is a Fail.

Flapen Score
28
28 / 100
Ranks 9,312 of 9,536 Tools & Home Improvement niches · −20 vs the category median of 48
Market size
$27K/yr32K searches / yr
90-day growth
+31.7%search demand this quarter
Competition
85%top-5 click share · 6 brands · 12 sellers

Flapen Score

C9 Light String against its category

The dotted line is the Tools & Home Improvement average. Past it, C9 Light String is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

28Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The C9 Light String market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for C9 Light String 32K times last year and spent an estimated $27K. The top 5 brands take 94% of clicks. Flapen scores it 28 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

0.9% of searches ended in a purchase last week.

Shoppers searched for this 32K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. In the latest week, 0.9% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +31.7% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $27K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
32K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+31.7%
Conversion, latest week
0.9%
Market size, estimated
$27Ka year
Top search term
c9 light string8K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $93.96.

Listings sell for $93.96 on average, from $16.23 to $302.16. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 1K to 2K a year. The average listing sells 0 to 100 of them. At $93.96 that is $0 to $9K a year per listing.

Average price
$93.96inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$16.23–$302.16
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
1K–2K
Units per listing a year
0–100
Revenue per listing a year
$0–$9K
Returns
7.8%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

63% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 14.2% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #2,386 within String Lights. It carries 170 reviews at 4.66 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
63%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
14.2%
Average rank
#2,386in String Lights
Average rating
4.66 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
170per listing
Listings tracked
8

04 · Newcomers

Amazon counts 1 of last year's 3 launches as successful.

3 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 54 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

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

Products

Top C9 Light String 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 85% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.

$0$3K$5K$8K$11K101001K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

6 rising

Sellers

12

Top-5 brand share

94%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

85%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

0%

  • Brightown43%
  • Novelty Lights16%
  • Copkim14%
  • Kivonfa11%
  • LUCKY TL11%
  • Formosa Lights6%
  • Open — no brand owns it (0%)

Demand

C9 Light String search demand

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

3K2KSpike '26NovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJul

Peak months: Nov, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 19.3× · 9 of 12 months tracked

Search terms

Top C9 Light String search terms shoppers use

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

  • c9 light string8K/yr
  • c9 light strand5K/yr
  • c9 christmas light string3K/yr
  • c9 wire3K/yr
  • c9 stringer3K/yr
  • c9 socket wire5K/yr
  • c9 christmas light wire5K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about C9 Light String

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

38%of positive reviews mention “Brightness/Shine/Glow”
7.8%of orders come back
“I can pick the LED bulbs I like”
A buyer, on “Brightness/Shine/Glow”38% of positive 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 C9 Light String questions

Answered from the same tracked data.