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Pool Slide

Maybe

Search demand grew >1,000% this quarter. But shoppers spend only $9K a year here, so Pool Slide is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
59
59 / 100
Top 14% of 2,461 Fashion niches · +11 vs the category median of 48
Market size
£9K/yr77K searches / yr
90-day growth
>1,000%search demand this quarter
Competition
51%top-5 click share · 27 brands · 61 sellers

Flapen Score

Pool Slide against its category

The dotted line is the Fashion average. Past it, Pool Slide is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

59Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Pool Slide market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Pool Slide 77K times last year and spent an estimated £9K. The top 5 brands take 55% of clicks. Flapen scores it 59 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

0.4% of searches ended in a purchase last week.

Shoppers searched for this 77K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. In the latest week, 0.4% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved >1,000% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £9K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
77K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
>1,000%
Conversion, latest week
0.4%
Market size, estimated
£9Ka year
Top search term
pool slide34K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £31.31.

Listings sell for £31.31 on average, from £6.43 to £98.05. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 250 to 500 a year. The average listing sells 0 to 100 of them. At £31.31 that is £0 to £3K a year per listing.

Average price
£31.31inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£6.43–£98.05
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
250–500
Units per listing a year
0–100
Revenue per listing a year
£0–£3K
Returns
2.3%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is ads and reviews.

95% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 67% ship with Prime. On an average day, 13.6% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #17 within Shoes. It carries 8,269 reviews at 3.98 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
95%
Prime listings
67%
Out of stock, average day
13.6%
Average rank
#17in Shoes
Average rating
3.98 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
8,269per listing
Listings tracked
39

04 · Newcomers

Amazon counts 3 of last year's 15 launches as successful.

15 products launched here in the last 12 months. Amazon counts 3 of them as successful launches, new products that hit its first-year sales bar. The brands on the shelf have sold for 33 months on average, so a newcomer is not facing entrenched names.

Launched, last 12 months
15
Successful launches
3Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
33 months

Products

Top Pool Slide products & what they sell for

Every tracked product: its share of the shelf, its reviews, and its price.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take 51% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

£0£366£731£1K£1K1101001K10K100K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)5 products missing review or click data not plotted

Brands

27 rising

Sellers

61

Top-5 brand share

55%

Top 20: 93%

Top-5 click share

51%

Top 20: 80%

Open market

40%

  • Plum17%
  • Comebachome12%
  • Mammut10%
  • adidas8%
  • Tapallmy8%
  • Fadezar5%

Search terms

Top Pool Slide search terms shoppers use

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

  • pool slide34K/yr
  • pool water slides14K/yr
  • swimming pool slide12K/yr
  • slide for pool8K/yr
  • slide for paddling pool3K/yr
  • slide for swimming pool3K/yr
  • swimming pool slides3K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Pool Slide

What buyers praise, what they complain about and why they send it back, from the reviews.

Complain

Size-Overall16%−0.15

size up

Too small and too narrow

Size way too small

Quality-Overall13%−0.19

Bit rubbish

Unusable, cheap rip off I think

Poor Quality

Durability10%−0.15

Already broken

Fell apart during the 1st time wearing them

Can't comment on durability as only been using a few days

Assembly/Installation8%+0.60

took us hours to put together instructions difficult to read

Nightmare to put together

Just unnecessarily difficult to assemble

Instructions/User Manual/Troubleshooting5%−0.03

Not sure great instructions

Instructions hard to understand

Instructions not clear at all

Love

Value For Money14%+1.57

Good value

Really good value for money, kept kids cool and entertained

Good value for money

Size-Overall10%−0.15

Correct fit

The length is ideal for my 9- and 10-year-old kids

The slide itself is a good length

Comfort-Overall10%+0.87

Nice and comfy

Very well made and nice and comfortable to wear

comfortable to use

Assembly/Installation9%+0.60

Great easy assembly

Easy to assemble

Easy to set up

Quality-Overall9%−0.19

Good quality, easy to assemble and all tools needed both decent and in box

Great quality product easy to build

Good quality

Return

2.3% Return rate 78% Fixable by listing

Size-Overall55%██▇▇▇▇

size up

Too small and too narrow

Size way too small

Feet Fit8%▆▇█▇▇▄
Quality-Overall4%█▄▇▂▄▅

Bit rubbish

Unusable, cheap rip off I think

Poor Quality

Width4%█▇▂▅▅▄
Defective Material/Parts3%▁▁▁▃█▄

FAQ

Common Pool Slide questions

Answered from the same tracked data.