Is Racing Seat profitable to sell on Amazon Germany?

Flapen scores Racing Seat 41 out of 100 on Amazon Germany, a Fail. Shoppers spend €215K a year across 23 tracked products. 2 of the 7 products launched in the last year cleared the first-year sales bar. Search demand grew -18.2% in the last 90 days.

How competitive is the Racing Seat niche on Amazon Germany?

15 brands and 55 sellers compete in Racing Seat on Amazon Germany. The top 5 Racing Seat products take 56% of clicks, and the top 5 brands take 76%.

What do buyers complain about in Racing Seat?

Racing Seat buyers on Amazon Germany complain most about Stärke, Haltbarkeit, and Dehnbarkeit/Erweiterbarkeit/Elastizität. An estimated 2.8% of orders come back.

When does demand for Racing Seat peak?

Search demand for Racing Seat on Amazon Germany peaks in Nov–Dec, and the busiest month runs 4.0× the quietest.

What does it cost to enter the Racing Seat niche?

Racing Seat sells for €236.73 on average on Amazon Germany, outside the $15 to $100 sweet spot. Listings run €15.05 to €633.50. The average product has 229 reviews, the count a new listing must catch up to.

Racing Seat

Fail

Buyers convert on only 0.1% of searches, so Racing Seat is a Fail.

Filters Low Review Barrier High Price

Flapen Score: 41
41 / 100Ranks 1,197 of 1,428 Auto & Motorrad niches · −10 vs the category median of 51
Market size: €215K/yr605K searches / yr
90-day growth: -18.2%search demand this quarter
Competition: 56%top-5 click share · 15 brands · 55 sellers

Flapen Score

Racing Seat against its category

The dotted line is the Auto & Motorrad average. Past it, Racing Seat is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

41Fail

This niche Category average

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Market

The Racing Seat market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon Germany searched for Racing Seat 605K times last year and spent an estimated €215K. The top 5 brands take 76% of clicks. Demand peaks in Nov–Dec. Flapen scores it 41 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 0.1% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 605K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon Germany for this niche's terms. An estimated 0.1% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -18.2% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated €215K a year.

Searches, last 12 months: 605K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90: -18.2%
Conversion, latest week: 0.1%
Market size, estimated: €215Ka year
Peak month: December4.0× the quietest month
Top search term: sim rig134K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth €236.73.

Listings sell for €236.73 on average, from €15.05 to €633.50. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 1K to 1K a year. The average listing sells 0 to 100 of them. At €236.73 that is €0 to €24K a year per listing.

Average price: €236.73above the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range: €15.05–€633.50
Amazon Germany median price: €18.99across 29,809 niches
Units sold a year: 1K–1K
Units per listing a year: 0–100
Revenue per listing a year: €0–€24K
Returns: 2.8%of orders · Amazon Germany median 1.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

74% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 74% ship with Prime. On an average day, 10.8% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #533 within Motorräder, Ersatzteile & Zubehör. It carries 229 reviews at 4.30 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings: 74%
Prime listings: 74%
Out of stock, average day: 10.8%
Average rank: #533in Motorräder, Ersatzteile & Zubehör
Average rating: 4.30 starsAmazon Germany average 4.37 stars
Average reviews: 229per listing
Listings tracked: 23

04 · Newcomers

2 of last year's 7 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

7 products launched here in the last 12 months. 2 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 42 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months: 7
Successful launches: 2Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age: 42 months

Products

Top Racing Seat products & what they sell for

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

The products selling in this niche are for signed-in readers. Every market figure above stays open to everyone.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take 56% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

Brands

15 rising

Sellers

Top-5 brand share

76%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

56%

Top 20: 96%

Open market

20%

Brand 122%
Brand 220%
Brand 315%
Brand 411%
Brand 57%
Brand 64%

Demand

Racing Seat search demand

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

Peak months: Nov, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 4.0×

Search terms

Top Racing Seat search terms shoppers use

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

sim rig134K/yr -20.9%0.0% conv.
sim racing cockpit72K/yr -20.7%0.0% conv.
racing seat63K/yr -14.7%0.1% conv.
simrig47K/yr -13.5%0.0% conv.
sim racing zubehör28K/yr -13.5%0.0% conv.
racing cockpit32K/yr -23.9%0.0% conv.
rennsitz33K/yr -34.8%0.0% conv.
rennsitz gaming23K/yr -5.8%0.1% conv.
sim racing sitz21K/yr -29.2%0.0% conv.
sim racing rig20K/yr -22.1%0.1% conv.

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Racing Seat

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

18%of positive reviews mention “Qualität insgesamt”

9%of negative reviews mention “Stärke”

2.8%of orders come back

“könnte in allem etwas stabiler sein”

A buyer, on “Stärke”9% 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.

20 topics

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