Is Minigolf profitable to sell on Amazon Germany?

Flapen scores Minigolf 48 out of 100 on Amazon Germany, a Fail. Shoppers spend €80K a year across 11 tracked products. 1 of the 8 products launched in the last year cleared the first-year sales bar. Search demand grew +26.1% in the last 90 days.

How competitive is the Minigolf niche on Amazon Germany?

7 brands and 10 sellers compete in Minigolf on Amazon Germany. The top 5 Minigolf products take 80% of clicks, and the top 5 brands take 94%.

What do buyers complain about in Minigolf?

Minigolf buyers on Amazon Germany complain most about Haltbarkeit, Qualität insgesamt, and Übung/Sporteignung. An estimated 1.7% of orders come back.

When does demand for Minigolf peak?

Search demand for Minigolf on Amazon Germany peaks in Aug–Dec, and the busiest month runs 2.6× the quietest.

What does it cost to enter the Minigolf niche?

Minigolf sells for €39.37 on average on Amazon Germany, inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot. Listings run €13.02 to €73.97. The average product has 67 reviews, the count a new listing must catch up to.

Minigolf

Fail

The top 5 brands take 94% of clicks, so Minigolf is a Fail.

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Flapen Score: 48
48 / 100Top 29% of 2,084 Spielzeug niches · +5 vs the category median of 43
Market size: €80K/yr149K searches / yr
90-day growth: +26.1%search demand this quarter
Competition: 80%top-5 click share · 7 brands · 10 sellers

Flapen Score

Minigolf against its category

The dotted line is the Spielzeug average. Past it, Minigolf is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

48Fail

This niche Category average

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Market

The Minigolf market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon Germany searched for Minigolf 149K times last year and spent an estimated €80K. The top 5 brands take 94% of clicks. Demand peaks in Aug–Dec. Flapen scores it 48 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 1.4% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 149K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon Germany for this niche's terms. An estimated 1.4% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +26.1% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated €80K a year.

Searches, last 12 months: 149K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90: +26.1%
Conversion, latest week: 1.4%
Market size, estimated: €80Ka year
Peak month: August2.6× the quietest month
Top search term: minigolf40K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth €39.37.

Listings sell for €39.37 on average, from €13.02 to €73.97. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 2K to 2K a year. The average listing sells 0 to 100 of them. At €39.37 that is €0 to €4K a year per listing.

Average price: €39.37inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range: €13.02–€73.97
Amazon Germany median price: €18.99across 29,809 niches
Units sold a year: 2K–2K
Units per listing a year: 0–100
Revenue per listing a year: €0–€4K
Returns: 1.7%of orders · Amazon Germany median 1.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

73% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 9.4% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #10 within Sport & Outdoor. It carries 67 reviews at 4.11 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings: 73%
Prime listings: 100%
Out of stock, average day: 9.4%
Average rank: #10in Sport & Outdoor
Average rating: 4.11 starsAmazon Germany average 4.37 stars
Average reviews: 67per listing
Listings tracked: 11

04 · Newcomers

1 of last year's 8 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

8 products launched here in the last 12 months. 1 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 37 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months: 8
Successful launches: 1Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age: 37 months

Products

Top Minigolf 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 80% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.

Brands

7 falling

Sellers

Top-5 brand share

94%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

80%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

Brand 163%
Brand 213%
Brand 39%
Brand 45%
Brand 54%
Brand 63%
Open — no brand owns it (1 brand, 3%)

Demand

Minigolf search demand

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

Peak months: Aug, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.6×

Search terms

Top Minigolf search terms shoppers use

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

minigolf40K/yr +59.3%0.4% conv.
minigolf für zuhause36K/yr -1.4%0.4% conv.
minigolf kinder outdoor6K/yr +105.2%0.2% conv.
minigolf set10K/yr +45.1%0.9% conv.
mini golf10K/yr +32.6%0.4% conv.
mini golf set outdoor6K/yr +108.4%0.3% conv.
golf spiel6K/yr +63.6%0.1% conv.
golf kinder5K/yr +28.0%0.1% conv.
minigolf set erwachsene6K/yr +65.0%0.5% conv.
minigolf kinder6K/yr -45.0%0.4% conv.

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Minigolf

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

25%of positive reviews mention “Spaß/Unterhaltungserlebnis”

50%of negative reviews mention “Haltbarkeit”

1.7%of orders come back

“5 mal benutzt und schon gebrochen”

A buyer, on “Haltbarkeit”50% 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.

17 topics

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