Is Schwarzer Sesam profitable to sell on Amazon Germany?

Flapen scores Schwarzer Sesam 45 out of 100 on Amazon Germany, a Fail. Shoppers spend €148K a year across 17 tracked products. 0 of the 5 products launched in the last year cleared the first-year sales bar. Search demand grew -7.0% in the last 90 days.

How competitive is the Schwarzer Sesam niche on Amazon Germany?

12 brands and 18 sellers compete in Schwarzer Sesam on Amazon Germany. The top 5 Schwarzer Sesam products take 60% of clicks, and the top 5 brands take 80%.

What do buyers complain about in Schwarzer Sesam?

Schwarzer Sesam buyers on Amazon Germany complain most about Geschmack insgesamt, Geruch, and Preis-Leistungs-Verhältnis. An estimated 0.0% of orders come back.

When does demand for Schwarzer Sesam peak?

Search demand for Schwarzer Sesam on Amazon Germany is steady all year. The busiest month runs 2.1× the quietest.

What does it cost to enter the Schwarzer Sesam niche?

Schwarzer Sesam sells for €8.36 on average on Amazon Germany, outside the $15 to $100 sweet spot. Listings run €2.71 to €16.89. The average product has 456 reviews, the count a new listing must catch up to.

Schwarzer Sesam

Fail

Prices span $2.71–$16.89, mostly outside the sweet spot, so Schwarzer Sesam is a Fail.

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Flapen Score: 45
45 / 100Ranks 687 of 1,367 Lebensmittel & Getränke niches · −1 vs the category median of 46
Market size: €148K/yr168K searches / yr
90-day growth: -7.0%search demand this quarter
Competition: 60%top-5 click share · 12 brands · 18 sellers

Flapen Score

Schwarzer Sesam against its category

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

45Fail

This niche Category average

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Market

The Schwarzer Sesam market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon Germany searched for Schwarzer Sesam 168K times last year and spent an estimated €148K. The top 5 brands take 80% of clicks. Flapen scores it 45 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 10.5% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 168K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon Germany for this niche's terms. An estimated 10.5% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -7.0% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated €148K a year.

Searches, last 12 months: 168K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90: -7.0%
Conversion, latest week: 10.5%
Market size, estimated: €148Ka year
Peak month: May2.1× the quietest month
Top search term: schwarzer sesam88K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth €8.36.

Listings sell for €8.36 on average, from €2.71 to €16.89. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 20K to 25K a year. The average listing sells 1,250 to 1,500 of them. At €8.36 that is €10K to €13K a year per listing.

Average price: €8.36under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range: €2.71–€16.89
Amazon Germany median price: €18.99across 29,809 niches
Units sold a year: 20K–25K
Units per listing a year: 1,250–1,500
Revenue per listing a year: €10K–€13K
Returns: 0.0%of orders · Amazon Germany median 1.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

76% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 76% ship with Prime. On an average day, 21.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #355 within Gewürze & Fix-Produkte. It carries 456 reviews at 4.64 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings: 76%
Prime listings: 76%
Out of stock, average day: 21.0%
Average rank: #355in Gewürze & Fix-Produkte
Average rating: 4.64 starsAmazon Germany average 4.37 stars
Average reviews: 456per listing
Listings tracked: 17

04 · Newcomers

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

5 products launched here in the last 12 months. 0 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 56 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months: 5
Successful launches: 0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age: 56 months

Products

Top Schwarzer Sesam 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 60% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

Brands

12 rising

Sellers

Top-5 brand share

80%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

60%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

14%

Brand 130%
Brand 225%
Brand 311%
Brand 47%
Brand 57%
Brand 66%
Open — no brand owns it (6 brands, 14%)

Demand

Schwarzer Sesam search demand

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

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.1×

Search terms

Top Schwarzer Sesam search terms shoppers use

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

schwarzer sesam88K/yr +0.9%8.7% conv.
schwarzer sesam bio30K/yr -22.1%8.8% conv.
sesam schwarz21K/yr -5.5%12.0% conv.
black sesame seeds10K/yr -4.8%5.1% conv.
schwarze sesam5K/yr -21.1%6.8% conv.
sesam schwarz bio4K/yr -13.4%10.8% conv.
black sesame3K/yr -7.2%5.3% conv.
schwarzer sesam gemahlen3K/yr -21.6%2.0% conv.
schwarzer sesam geröstet3K/yr -13.4%6.8% conv.

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Schwarzer Sesam

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

37%of positive reviews mention “Qualität insgesamt”

21%of negative reviews mention “Geschmack insgesamt”

<0.1%of orders come back, a rate Amazon rounds to zero

“Moldy taste - Schimmeliger Geschmack”

A buyer, on “Geschmack insgesamt”21% 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

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