Is Knödel profitable to sell on Amazon Germany?

Flapen scores Knödel 43 out of 100 on Amazon Germany, a Fail. Shoppers spend €46K a year across 31 tracked products. Search demand grew -31.5% in the last 90 days.

How competitive is the Knödel niche on Amazon Germany?

14 brands and 25 sellers compete in Knödel on Amazon Germany. The top 5 Knödel products take 55% of clicks, and the top 5 brands take 87%.

What do buyers complain about in Knödel?

Knödel buyers on Amazon Germany complain most about Geschmack insgesamt, Geschmack, and beworben Vs Tatsächliches Produkt. An estimated 0.1% of orders come back.

What does it cost to enter the Knödel niche?

Knödel sells for €5.26 on average on Amazon Germany, outside the $15 to $100 sweet spot. Listings run €1.29 to €22.41. The average product has 162 reviews, the count a new listing must catch up to.

Knödel

Fail

Demand is soft, at -31.5% this quarter, so Knödel is a Fail.

Flapen Score: 43
43 / 100Ranks 829 of 1,367 Lebensmittel & Getränke niches · −3 vs the category median of 46
Market size: €46K/yr105K searches / yr
90-day growth: -31.5%search demand this quarter
Competition: 55%top-5 click share · 14 brands · 25 sellers

Flapen Score

Knödel against its category

The dotted line is the Lebensmittel & Getränke average. Past it, Knödel is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

43Fail

This niche Category average

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Market

The Knödel market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon Germany searched for Knödel 105K times last year and spent an estimated €46K. The top 5 brands take 87% of clicks. Flapen scores it 43 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 8.2% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 105K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon Germany for this niche's terms. An estimated 8.2% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -31.5% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated €46K a year.

Searches, last 12 months: 105K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90: -31.5%
Conversion, latest week: 8.2%
Market size, estimated: €46Ka year
Top search term: knödel27K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth €5.26.

Listings sell for €5.26 on average, from €1.29 to €22.41. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 15K to 20K a year. The average listing sells 500 to 750 of them. At €5.26 that is €3K to €4K a year per listing.

Average price: €5.26under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range: €1.29–€22.41
Amazon Germany median price: €18.99across 29,809 niches
Units sold a year: 15K–20K
Units per listing a year: 500–750
Revenue per listing a year: €3K–€4K
Returns: 0.1%of orders · Amazon Germany median 1.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

10% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 81% ship with Prime. On an average day, 5.1% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #160 within Fertiggerichte. It carries 162 reviews at 4.47 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings: 10%
Prime listings: 81%
Out of stock, average day: 5.1%
Average rank: #160in Fertiggerichte
Average rating: 4.47 starsAmazon Germany average 4.37 stars
Average reviews: 162per listing
Listings tracked: 31

04 · Newcomers

Brands here are established.

The brands on the shelf have sold for 64 months on average, so the names here are established.

Launched, last 12 months: 0
Successful launches: 0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age: 64 months

Products

Top Knödel 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 55% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

Brands

14 falling

Sellers

Top-5 brand share

87%

Top 20: 99%

Top-5 click share

55%

Top 20: 90%

Open market

10%

Brand 143%
Brand 230%
Brand 36%
Brand 44%
Brand 54%
Brand 63%
Open — no brand owns it (8 brands, 10%)

Demand

Knödel search demand

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

Peak months: Nov, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 6.6× · 9 of 12 months tracked

Search terms

Top Knödel search terms shoppers use

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

knödel27K/yr -20.7%4.4% conv.
rotkohl27K/yr -32.0%11.6% conv.
semmelknödel17K/yr -36.5%2.8% conv.
klöße11K/yr -29.3%6.4% conv.
rotkraut7K/yr -28.2%10.5% conv.
kartoffelknödel6K/yr -38.1%3.8% conv.
rotkohl im beutel5K/yr -47.4%11.0% conv.
rotkohl im glas5K/yr -53.0%8.4% conv.

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Knödel

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

51%of positive reviews mention “Geschmack insgesamt”

17%of negative reviews mention “Geschmack insgesamt”

0.1%of orders come back

“Schmeckt nicht”

A buyer, on “Geschmack insgesamt”17% 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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