Esel
FailDemand is soft, at -18.1% this quarter, so Esel is a Fail.
- Flapen Score
- 48 / 100Top 29% of 2,084 Spielzeug niches · +5 vs the category median of 4348
- Market size
- €114K/yr253K searches / yr
- 90-day growth
- -18.1%search demand this quarter
- Competition
- 38%top-5 click share · 18 brands · 187 sellers
Flapen Score
Esel against its category
The dotted line is the Spielzeug average. Past it, Esel is stronger. Inside it, weaker.
Market
The Esel market on Amazon at a glance
Shoppers on Amazon Germany searched for Esel 253K times last year and spent an estimated €114K. The top 5 brands take 80% of clicks. Demand peaks in Nov–Dec. Flapen scores it 48 out of 100, a Fail.
01 · Demand
An estimated 3.5% of those searches ended in a purchase.
Shoppers searched for this 253K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon Germany for this niche's terms. An estimated 3.5% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -18.1% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated €114K a year.
- Searches, last 12 months
- 253K
- Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
- -18.1%
- Conversion, latest week
- 3.5%
- Market size, estimated
- €114Ka year
- Peak month
- December2.9× the quietest month
- Top search term
- esel97K searches a year
02 · Price
A sale here is worth €12.95.
Listings sell for €12.95 on average, from €3.72 to €49.96. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 8K to 10K a year. The average listing sells 100 to 250 of them. At €12.95 that is €1K to €3K a year per listing.
- Average price
- €12.95under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
- Price range
- €3.72–€49.96
- Amazon Germany median price
- €18.99across 29,809 niches
- Units sold a year
- 8K–10K
- Units per listing a year
- 100–250
- Revenue per listing a year
- €1K–€3K
- Returns
- 0.6%of orders · Amazon Germany median 1.1%
03 · Entry bar
The bar here is low.
61% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 88% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.6% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #606 within Spielzeugfiguren. It carries 694 reviews at 4.69 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.
- Sponsored listings
- 61%
- Prime listings
- 88%
- Out of stock, average day
- 0.6%
- Average rank
- #606in Spielzeugfiguren
- Average rating
- 4.69 starsAmazon Germany average 4.37 stars
- Average reviews
- 694per listing
- Listings tracked
- 41
04 · Newcomers
0 of last year's 4 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.
4 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 39 months on average, so the names here are settling in.
- Launched, last 12 months
- 4
- Successful launches
- 0Amazon's first-year sales bar
- Average brand age
- 39 months
Products
Top Esel products & what they sell for
Every tracked product: its share of the shelf, its reviews, and its price.
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Competition
Competition: brands, sellers & click share
The top 5 products take only 38% of clicks. An open shelf where new products get seen.
Brands
18 falling
Sellers
187
Top-5 brand share
80%
Top 20: 100%
Top-5 click share
38%
Top 20: 80%
Open market
17%
- Brand 151%
- Brand 212%
- Brand 310%
- Brand 45%
- Brand 53%
- Brand 63%
- Open — no brand owns it (12 brands, 17%)
Demand
Esel search demand
Weekly searches over the year, seasonality beneath. Pick a range.
Peak months: Nov, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.9×
Search terms
Top Esel search terms shoppers use
The exact words shoppers type, with yearly volume, growth, and conversion.
- esel97K/yr
- esel geschenk24K/yr
- schleich bauernhoftiere43K/yr
- schleich esel18K/yr
- esel figur8K/yr
- schleich safari8K/yr
- esel deko6K/yr
- bauernhoftiere schleich10K/yr
- donkey6K/yr
- schleich zootiere6K/yr
Reviews and returns
What reviews say buyers love and hate about Esel
We read the reviews and the return reasons for every product selling here.
“bin ich von der Qualität nicht überzeugt.”
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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