Forscan
FailThe top 5 products take 81% of clicks, so Forscan is a Fail.
- Flapen Score
- 41 / 100Ranks 635 of 811 Automotive niches · −8 vs the category median of 4941
- 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.
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.
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.
“Does not connect to blue tooth despite different phones tablets etc”
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
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FAQ
Common Forscan questions
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