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Softball

Fail

The top 5 brands take 97% of clicks, so Softball is a Fail.

Flapen Score
42
42 / 100
Ranks 1,131 of 2,084 Spielzeug niches · −1 vs the category median of 43
Market size
€203K/yr451K searches / yr
90-day growth
-0.6%search demand this quarter
Competition
72%top-5 click share · 7 brands · 16 sellers

Flapen Score

Softball against its category

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

42Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Softball market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon Germany searched for Softball 451K times last year and spent an estimated €203K. The top 5 brands take 97% of clicks. Flapen scores it 42 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 3.5% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 451K 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 -0.6% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated €203K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
451K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-0.6%
Conversion, latest week
3.5%
Market size, estimated
€203Ka year
Peak month
March1.7× the quietest month
Top search term
softball123K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth €12.87.

Listings sell for €12.87 on average, from €2.94 to €20.44. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 15K to 20K a year. The average listing sells 750 to 1,000 of them. At €12.87 that is €10K to €13K a year per listing.

Average price
€12.87under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
€2.94–€20.44
Amazon Germany median price
€18.99across 29,809 niches
Units sold a year
15K–20K
Units per listing a year
750–1,000
Revenue per listing a year
€10K–€13K
Returns
0.8%of orders · Amazon Germany median 1.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is ads.

93% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 57% ship with Prime. On an average day, 2.5% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #29 within Sport & Outdoor. It carries 476 reviews at 4.40 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
93%
Prime listings
57%
Out of stock, average day
2.5%
Average rank
#29in Sport & Outdoor
Average rating
4.40 starsAmazon Germany average 4.37 stars
Average reviews
476per listing
Listings tracked
14

04 · Newcomers

0 of last year's 3 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

3 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 52 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
3
Successful launches
0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
52 months

Products

Top Softball 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 72% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.

Brands

7 falling

Sellers

16

Top-5 brand share

97%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

72%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

1%

  • Brand 137%
  • Brand 236%
  • Brand 312%
  • Brand 46%
  • Brand 55%
  • Brand 62%
  • Open — no brand owns it (1 brand, 1%)

Demand

Softball search demand

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

13K8KHoliday '24Spike '25Black Friday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.7×

Search terms

Top Softball search terms shoppers use

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

  • softball123K/yr
  • schaumstoffball79K/yr
  • softball fußball53K/yr
  • softbälle28K/yr
  • softball kinder33K/yr
  • stoffball21K/yr
  • softball klein13K/yr
  • softbälle schaumstoff6K/yr
  • schaumstoffbälle11K/yr
  • weicher ball9K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Softball

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

18%of positive reviews mention “Qualität insgesamt”
21%of negative reviews mention “Inflation/Deflation”
0.8%of orders come back
“Bin enttäuscht vom Pilates Ball, da nach kurzer Zeit die Luft entweicht”
A buyer, on “Inflation/Deflation”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.

18 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Softball questions

Answered from the same tracked data.