Is Fotostick profitable to sell on Amazon Germany?

Flapen scores Fotostick 47 out of 100 on Amazon Germany, a Fail. Shoppers spend €49K a year across 23 tracked products. 4 of the 5 products launched in the last year cleared the first-year sales bar. Search demand grew -17.1% in the last 90 days.

How competitive is the Fotostick niche on Amazon Germany?

20 brands and 130 sellers compete in Fotostick on Amazon Germany. The top 5 Fotostick products take 59% of clicks, and the top 5 brands take 67%.

What do buyers complain about in Fotostick?

Fotostick buyers on Amazon Germany complain most about Funktionalität insgesamt, Haltbarkeit, and Kompatibilität – insgesamt. An estimated 1.4% of orders come back.

What does it cost to enter the Fotostick niche?

Fotostick sells for €24.13 on average on Amazon Germany, inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot. Listings run €8.74 to €102.74. The average product has 10,616 reviews, the count a new listing must catch up to.

Fotostick

Fail

Shoppers spend an estimated $49K a year here, so Fotostick is a Fail.

Flapen Score: 47
47 / 100Top 25% of 1,375 Computer & Zubehör niches · +6 vs the category median of 41
Market size: €49K/yr67K searches / yr
90-day growth: -17.1%search demand this quarter
Competition: 59%top-5 click share · 20 brands · 130 sellers

Flapen Score

Fotostick against its category

The dotted line is the Computer & Zubehör average. Past it, Fotostick is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

47Fail

This niche Category average

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Market

The Fotostick market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon Germany searched for Fotostick 67K times last year and spent an estimated €49K. The top 5 brands take 67% of clicks. Flapen scores it 47 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 3.0% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 67K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon Germany for this niche's terms. An estimated 3.0% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -17.1% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated €49K a year.

Searches, last 12 months: 67K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90: -17.1%
Conversion, latest week: 3.0%
Market size, estimated: €49Ka year
Top search term: stick für handy fotos8K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth €24.13.

Listings sell for €24.13 on average, from €8.74 to €102.74. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 2K to 3K a year. The average listing sells 0 to 100 of them. At €24.13 that is €0 to €2K a year per listing.

Average price: €24.13inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range: €8.74–€102.74
Amazon Germany median price: €18.99across 29,809 niches
Units sold a year: 2K–3K
Units per listing a year: 0–100
Revenue per listing a year: €0–€2K
Returns: 1.4%of orders · Amazon Germany median 1.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

87% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 9.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #55 within Datenspeicher. It carries 10,616 reviews at 4.33 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings: 87%
Prime listings: 100%
Out of stock, average day: 9.0%
Average rank: #55in Datenspeicher
Average rating: 4.33 starsAmazon Germany average 4.37 stars
Average reviews: 10,616per listing
Listings tracked: 23

04 · Newcomers

4 of last year's 5 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

5 products launched here in the last 12 months. 4 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 32 months on average, so a newcomer is not facing entrenched names.

Launched, last 12 months: 5
Successful launches: 4Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age: 32 months

Products

Top Fotostick 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 59% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

Brands

20 falling

Sellers

130

Top-5 brand share

67%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

59%

Top 20: 97%

Open market

28%

Brand 127%
Brand 213%
Brand 311%
Brand 49%
Brand 57%
Brand 65%

Demand

Fotostick search demand

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

Peak months: Nov, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 3.3× · 10 of 12 months tracked

Search terms

Top Fotostick search terms shoppers use

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

stick für handy fotos8K/yr +1.7%3.1% conv.
externer speicher für handy9K/yr -20.3%2.2% conv.
fotostick für handy android7K/yr -9.9%3.3% conv.
handy stick für fotos9K/yr -24.8%2.0% conv.
fotostick6K/yr -10.9%1.3% conv.
photostick mobile4K/yr +22.1%1.6% conv.
fotospeicher für handy4K/yr +1.3%1.6% conv.
externer speicherstick für handy7K/yr -55.0%1.4% conv.
photostick4K/yr -61.5%0.3% conv.
flash laufwerk für android handy6K/yr -51.5%4.3% conv.

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Fotostick

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

12%of positive reviews mention “Benutzerfreundlichkeit”

16%of negative reviews mention “Funktionalität insgesamt”

1.4%of orders come back

“Stick wird nicht mehr erkannt”

A buyer, on “Funktionalität insgesamt”16% 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.

15 topics

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