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cable management

Everything captured about this concept, with the source of each figure, the places the sources disagree, and what to check next.

42% of the Etsy listings for cable management are not title-matched

30 of 52 listings carry an exact-phrase or all-tokens title match. The rest were returned by relevance ranking.

Read the title-matched figures, not the full-sample ones.

Interest proxy

~ 657,365

cumulative downloads, cumulative

Downloads, likes or favourites. Evidence that people looked, never that anyone bought.

thingiverse · n=14

Published floor

24,550

published monthly purchase floor, past month

A lower bound the marketplace itself published. The true figure is at least this.

amazon-keepa · n=20 · 2026-09-19

Provider estimate

~ 4,560

estimated lifetime sales, title-matched listings only, lifetime

A third-party model's guess at how much a listing has sold. Not a measurement.

etsy-everbee · n=30

Target buyer

Who is paying, and how much, on each channel that carries this concept.

  • On Amazon the median cable management product sells at $23.99, across 19 of 20 captured products.

    amazon-keepa:v_concept_amazon (n=19) @2026-09-19

  • On Etsy the median physical cable management listing asks $40.73, across 52 physical listings.

    etsy-everbee:v_concept_panel (n=52)

Observed need

What people did — downloaded, reviewed, bought — separated by which of those it was.

  • 14 indexed designs for cable management have been downloaded 657,365 times in total. That is interest, not purchases.

    thingiverse:v_concept_panel (n=14)

  • Etsy buyers have left 1,650 reviews on cable management listings — people who bought, not people who browsed.

    etsy-everbee:v_concept_panel (n=52)

Supporting demand

Search and purchase evidence, each labelled with the kind of figure it is.

  • Amazon publishes a purchase floor on 20 of 20 captured cable management products, summing to at least 24,550 units bought in the past month.

    amazon-keepa:v_concept_amazon (n=20) @2026-09-19

Competing solutions

Who already answers this need, and how crowded the answer is.

  • The median captured cable management product holds Amazon sales rank 1,638 in its category — a position, not a volume.

    amazon-keepa:v_concept_amazon (n=20) @2026-09-19

  • The median cable management product carries 2 offers competing on the same listing.

    amazon-keepa:v_concept_amazon (n=20) @2026-09-19

  • 52 Etsy listings were captured for cable management, of which 30 name it in their own title.

    etsy-everbee:v_concept_panel (n=52)

Possible differentiation

Where a printed version could win, read off the price evidence rather than assumed.

  • Etsy buyers pay 1.70× the Amazon price for cable management — $40.73 against $23.99. Whatever justifies that premium is what a printed version has to offer; matching Amazon on price is not a strategy a printer can win.

    etsy-everbee:v_concept_panel (n=52)amazon-keepa:v_concept_amazon (n=19) @2026-09-19

Conflicting evidence

Where two sources disagree. Stated, never resolved into an average.

  • 657,365 downloads against an estimated 4,560 lifetime Etsy sales. People who want cable management are largely printing it themselves — the free file is the competitor, and the download figure is not a demand forecast.

    thingiverse:v_concept_panel (n=14)etsy-everbee:v_concept_panel (n=30)

  • 22 of 52 Etsy listings do not name cable management in their title — they came back from a relevance-ranked search. Every Etsy figure here is weaker than its row count suggests.

    etsy-everbee:listing_concepts (n=52)

  • Amazon's cable management products are selling 18.2% less than 90 days ago on average, across 19 products. Whatever else the evidence says, this concept is contracting on Amazon right now.

    amazon-keepa:v_concept_amazon (n=19) @2026-09-19

Unknowns

What this brief does not know. Absence is a finding, not a blank.

  • No search-volume rows match cable management. Demand here is inferred from marketplace activity, not from what anyone searched for.

  • No figure here is a measured conversion rate, a margin, or a unit cost. Nothing captured tells us what one costs to produce, or what share of the people who look at cable management go on to buy.

  • Trademark, patent and design-right exposure for cable management has not been checked by anything in this system.

Next validation step

  1. Read the top title-matched Etsy listings for cable management and name what the $40.73 buyer is paying for that the $23.99 buyer is not — material, personalisation, size, or fit. That single answer decides whether this is a product or a race to the bottom.
  2. Settle the conflicting evidence above before costing anything. A brief with unresolved conflicts is a reason to look harder, not a reason to buy filament.
  3. Run cable management through the fleet planner at $23.99 and again at the Etsy median. The channel that survives its own price is the channel to model.

This brief is assembled from captured rows only. There is no blended score for cable management, deliberately: the sections disagree, and a single number could only hide that.