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Base Layers Men

Fail

The top 5 brands take 100% of clicks, so Base Layers Men is a Fail.

Flapen Score
37
37 / 100
Ranks 2,090 of 2,461 Fashion niches · −11 vs the category median of 48
Market size
£101K/yr666K searches / yr
90-day growth
-37.6%search demand this quarter
Competition
24%top-5 click share · 2 brands · 41 sellers

Flapen Score

Base Layers Men against its category

The dotted line is the Fashion average. Past it, Base Layers Men is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

37Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Base Layers Men market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Base Layers Men 666K times last year and spent an estimated £101K. All 2 brands take every click. Flapen scores it 37 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 0.3% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 666K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 0.3% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -37.6% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £101K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
666K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-37.6%
Conversion, latest week
0.3%
Market size, estimated
£101Ka year
Top search term
helly hansen154K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £48.71.

Listings sell for £48.71 on average, from £10.40 to £110.99. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 4K to 5K a year. The average listing sells 0 to 100 of them. At £48.71 that is £0 to £5K a year per listing.

Average price
£48.71inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£10.40–£110.99
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
4K–5K
Units per listing a year
0–100
Revenue per listing a year
£0–£5K
Returns
9.0%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is ads.

98% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 8.6% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #626 within Activewear. It carries 1,017 reviews at 4.45 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
98%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
8.6%
Average rank
#626in Activewear
Average rating
4.45 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
1,017per listing
Listings tracked
104

04 · Newcomers

Brands here are settling in.

The brands on the shelf have sold for 50 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

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

Products

Top Base Layers Men products & what they sell for

The products selling here, as shoppers see them on Amazon. Shelf share and sales are our estimates.

Prices and ratings read from Amazon on Jul 23, 2026. The live listing can differ.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take an estimated 24% of clicks, no more. An open shelf where new products get seen.

£0£2K£4K£6K£8K101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

2 falling

Sellers

41

Est. top-5 brand share

100%

Top 20: 100%

Est. top-5 click share

24%

Top 20: 50%

Open market

0%

  • Helly Hansen95%
  • HH Workwear5%
  • Open — no brand owns it (0%)

Demand

Base Layers Men search demand

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

70K50KSpike '25Black Friday '25Spike '26NovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJul

Peak months: Jan, Oct, Nov · busiest ÷ quietest = 53.1× · 10 of 12 months tracked

Search terms

Top Base Layers Men search terms shoppers use

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

  • helly hansen154K/yr
  • helly hansen mens jacket124K/yr
  • helly hansen women56K/yr
  • helly hansen mens30K/yr
  • helly hansen workwear27K/yr
  • helly hansen t shirt men10K/yr
  • helly hansen jacket16K/yr
  • hh jacket men18K/yr
  • mens long johns51K/yr
  • base layer men12K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Base Layers Men

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

31%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
19%of negative reviews mention “Size-Overall”
9.0%of orders come back
“The fitting is poor”
A buyer, on “Size-Overall”19% 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.

19 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Base Layers Men questions

Answered from the same tracked data.

Figures on this page are estimates modeled from public Amazon pages and third-party keyword data. Amazon does not supply them, and no connected seller's data is used. How we handle Amazon data