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Purple Painters Tape

Maybe

Returns run at only 0.7% of orders. But the top 5 products take 71% of clicks, so Purple Painters Tape is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
52
52 / 100
Top 31% of 9,536 Tools & Home Improvement niches · +4 vs the category median of 48
Market size
$177K/yr109K searches / yr
90-day growth
+15.8%search demand this quarter
Competition
71%top-5 click share · 10 brands · 67 sellers

Flapen Score

Purple Painters Tape against its category

The dotted line is the Tools & Home Improvement average. Past it, Purple Painters Tape is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

52Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Purple Painters Tape market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Purple Painters Tape 109K times last year and spent an estimated $177K. The top 5 brands take 88% of clicks. Demand peaks in Jul–Nov. Flapen scores it 52 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

12.4% of searches ended in a purchase last week.

Shoppers searched for this 109K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. In the latest week, 12.4% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +15.8% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $177K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
109K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+15.8%
Conversion, latest week
12.4%
Market size, estimated
$177Ka year
Peak month
July2.0× the quietest month
Top search term
purple tape36K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $13.17.

Listings sell for $13.17 on average, from $6.84 to $29.57. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 15K to 20K a year. The average listing sells 1,000 to 1,250 of them. At $13.17 that is $13K to $16K a year per listing.

Average price
$13.17under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$6.84–$29.57
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
15K–20K
Units per listing a year
1,000–1,250
Revenue per listing a year
$13K–$16K
Returns
0.7%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

60% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 1.4% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #1,685 within Painting Supplies & Tools. It carries 953 reviews at 4.49 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
60%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
1.4%
Average rank
#1,685in Painting Supplies & Tools
Average rating
4.49 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
953per listing
Listings tracked
15

04 · Newcomers

Amazon counts 0 of last year's 2 launches as successful.

2 products launched here in the last 12 months. Amazon counts 0 of them as successful launches, new products that hit its first-year sales bar. The brands on the shelf have sold for 56 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
2
Successful launches
0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
56 months

Products

Top Purple Painters Tape 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 71% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.

$0$18K$35K$53K$71K101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

10 rising

Sellers

67

Top-5 brand share

88%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

71%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

9%

  • Scotch60%
  • Zellykool10%
  • KIWIHUB6%
  • BOMEI PACK6%
  • FrogTape5%
  • Baijixin3%
  • Open — no brand owns it (4 brands, 9%)

Demand

Purple Painters Tape search demand

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

3K2KSpike '24Spike '25Prime Day '25Black Friday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Jul, Nov · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.0×

Search terms

Top Purple Painters Tape search terms shoppers use

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

  • purple tape36K/yr
  • delicate surface painters tape21K/yr
  • purple painters tape15K/yr
  • purple masking tape11K/yr
  • scotch delicate surface painters tape7K/yr
  • delicate painters tape6K/yr
  • delicate surface tape4K/yr
  • painters tape purple3K/yr
  • painters tape delicate surface3K/yr
  • scotch delicate surface tape3K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Purple Painters Tape

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

26%of positive reviews mention “Adhesion/Stickiness”
23%of negative reviews mention “Adhesion/Stickiness”
0.7%of orders come back
“Adhesive is so weak that it is absolutely useless on textured surfaces”
A buyer, on “Adhesion/Stickiness”23% 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.

16 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Purple Painters Tape questions

Answered from the same tracked data.