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Lamp Shades

Maybe

Shoppers spend $2.2M a year here. But returns run at 11.5% of orders, so Lamp Shades is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
59
59 / 100
Top 10% of 9,536 Tools & Home Improvement niches · +11 vs the category median of 48
Market size
$2.2M/yr9.2M searches / yr
90-day growth
-7.5%search demand this quarter
Competition
24%top-5 click share · 30 brands · 41 sellers

Flapen Score

Lamp Shades against its category

The dotted line is the Tools & Home Improvement average. Past it, Lamp Shades is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

59Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Lamp Shades market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Lamp Shades 9.2M times last year and spent an estimated $2.2M. The top 5 brands take 59% of clicks. Flapen scores it 59 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

0.9% of searches ended in a purchase last week.

Shoppers searched for this 9.2M 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 -7.5% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $2.2M a year.

Searches, last 12 months
9.2M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-7.5%
Conversion, latest week
0.9%
Market size, estimated
$2.2Ma year
Peak month
January1.4× the quietest month
Top search term
lamp shades2.8M searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $27.35.

Listings sell for $27.35 on average, from $9.93 to $56.75. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 80K to 100K a year. The average listing sells 1,000 to 1,250 of them. At $27.35 that is $27K to $34K a year per listing.

Average price
$27.35inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$9.93–$56.75
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
80K–100K
Units per listing a year
1,000–1,250
Revenue per listing a year
$27K–$34K
Returns
11.5%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is ads.

92% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 97% ship with Prime. On an average day, 2.2% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #111 within Lamps & Shades. It carries 460 reviews at 4.37 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
92%
Prime listings
97%
Out of stock, average day
2.2%
Average rank
#111in Lamps & Shades
Average rating
4.37 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
460per listing
Listings tracked
72

04 · Newcomers

Amazon counts 11 of last year's 15 launches as successful.

15 products launched here in the last 12 months. Amazon counts 11 of them as successful launches, new products that hit its first-year sales bar. The brands on the shelf have sold for 34 months on average, so a newcomer is not facing entrenched names.

Launched, last 12 months
15
Successful launches
11Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
34 months

Products

Top Lamp Shades 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 only 24% of clicks. An open shelf where new products get seen.

$0$67K$133K$200K$266K101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

30 falling

Sellers

41

Top-5 brand share

59%

Top 20: 95%

Top-5 click share

24%

Top 20: 58%

Open market

36%

  • Seaside village27%
  • LEYINPEI11%
  • GO&SO8%
  • Aspen Creative8%
  • qvtekn5%
  • Koorle5%

Demand

Lamp Shades search demand

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

225K175KPrime Day '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.4×

Search terms

Top Lamp Shades search terms shoppers use

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

  • lamp shades2.8M/yr
  • lamp shade1.4M/yr
  • lamp shades for table lamps1.4M/yr
  • small lamp shades541K/yr
  • lampshade508K/yr
  • lamp shades set of 2436K/yr
  • small lamp shade284K/yr
  • lamp shades for floor lamps281K/yr
  • lampshades for table lamp213K/yr
  • lampshades181K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Lamp Shades

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

21%of positive reviews mention “Assembly/Installation”
19%of negative reviews mention “Size-Overall”
11.5%of orders come back
“size Too large”
A buyer, on “Size-Overall”19% 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 Lamp Shades questions

Answered from the same tracked data.