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Forscan

Fail

The top 5 products take 81% of clicks, so Forscan is a Fail.

Flapen Score
41
41 / 100
Ranks 635 of 811 Automotive niches · −8 vs the category median of 49
Market size
£76K/yr46K searches / yr
90-day growth
-1.1%search demand this quarter
Competition
81%top-5 click share · 11 brands · 25 sellers

Flapen Score

Forscan against its category

The dotted line is the Automotive average. Past it, Forscan is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

41Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Forscan market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Forscan 46K times last year and spent an estimated £76K. The top 5 brands take 88% of clicks. Flapen scores it 41 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 7.0% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 46K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 7.0% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -1.1% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £76K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
46K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-1.1%
Conversion, latest week
7.0%
Market size, estimated
£76Ka year
Peak month
February1.4× the quietest month
Top search term
forscan19K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £23.68.

Listings sell for £23.68 on average, from £6.85 to £61.31. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 3K to 4K a year. The average listing sells 250 to 500 of them. At £23.68 that is £6K to £12K a year per listing.

Average price
£23.68inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£6.85–£61.31
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
3K–4K
Units per listing a year
250–500
Revenue per listing a year
£6K–£12K
Returns
4.4%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

71% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 16.7% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #89 within Tools & Equipment. It carries 2,040 reviews at 4.29 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
71%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
16.7%
Average rank
#89in Tools & Equipment
Average rating
4.29 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
2,040per listing
Listings tracked
14

04 · Newcomers

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

1 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 45 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
1
Successful launches
0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
45 months

Products

Top Forscan 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 81% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.

Brands

11 rising

Sellers

25

Top-5 brand share

88%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

81%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

9%

  • Brand 128%
  • Brand 222%
  • Brand 315%
  • Brand 414%
  • Brand 59%
  • Brand 64%
  • Open — no brand owns it (5 brands, 9%)

Demand

Forscan search demand

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

1K600Prime Day '25Spike '25Spike '26AprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJun

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.4×

Search terms

Top Forscan search terms shoppers use

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

  • forscan19K/yr
  • forscan obd2 adapter ford10K/yr
  • obdlink ex4K/yr
  • forscan software4K/yr
  • obdlink ex forscan obd adapter2K/yr
  • obd2 usb3K/yr
  • forscan obd2 adapter3K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Forscan

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

23%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
35%of negative reviews mention “Connectivity-Overall”
4.4%of orders come back
“Does not connect to blue tooth despite different phones tablets etc”
A buyer, on “Connectivity-Overall”35% 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.

14 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Forscan questions

Answered from the same tracked data.