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Baseball

Maybe

Returns run at only 0.7% of orders. But shoppers spend only $81K a year here, so Baseball is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
62
62 / 100
Top 10% of 792 Sports & Outdoors niches · +12 vs the category median of 50
Market size
£81K/yr110K searches / yr
90-day growth
+52.7%search demand this quarter
Competition
51%top-5 click share · 21 brands · 60 sellers

Flapen Score

Baseball against its category

The dotted line is the Sports & Outdoors average. Past it, Baseball is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

62Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Baseball market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Baseball 110K times last year and spent an estimated £81K. The top 5 brands take 60% of clicks. Flapen scores it 62 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

5.9% of searches ended in a purchase last week.

Shoppers searched for this 110K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. In the latest week, 5.9% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +52.7% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £81K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
110K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+52.7%
Conversion, latest week
5.9%
Market size, estimated
£81Ka year
Top search term
baseball79K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £12.42.

Listings sell for £12.42 on average, from £3.92 to £32.27. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 5K to 6K a year. The average listing sells 100 to 250 of them. At £12.42 that is £1K to £3K a year per listing.

Average price
£12.42under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£3.92–£32.27
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
5K–6K
Units per listing a year
100–250
Revenue per listing a year
£1K–£3K
Returns
0.7%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

74% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 96% ship with Prime. On an average day, 2.8% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #140 within Baseball. It carries 363 reviews at 4.37 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
74%
Prime listings
96%
Out of stock, average day
2.8%
Average rank
#140in Baseball
Average rating
4.37 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
363per listing
Listings tracked
27

04 · Newcomers

Amazon counts 0 of last year's 3 launches as successful.

3 products launched here in the last 12 months. Amazon counts 0 of them as successful launches, new products that hit its first-year sales bar. The brands on the shelf have sold for 49 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
49 months

Products

Top Baseball 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£4K£8K£12K£16K1101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

21 falling

Sellers

60

Top-5 brand share

60%

Top 20: 99%

Top-5 click share

51%

Top 20: 92%

Open market

35%

  • Sure Shot26%
  • Wonninek12%
  • BIgGouannie8%
  • PanBeiQi7%
  • Rawlings6%
  • Tizanfenor6%

Search terms

Top Baseball search terms shoppers use

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

  • baseball79K/yr
  • rounders ball11K/yr
  • baseball ball9K/yr
  • baseballs5K/yr
  • rounders balls2K/yr
  • baseball balls3K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Baseball

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

Complain

Soft Feel20%

the soft ball however is awful

got a soft spongy ball similar to a baseball not even good enough to use as a stress ball

Size-Overall17%−0.04

Don't buy it it's the size of a 50p

Advertised Vs Actual Product17%−0.03

Misleading description

The description of this is very misleading

Print Quality17%

However, my issue with the ball is that after a few rounds of baseball the print has smudged

Value For Money8%+0.04

Overpriced rubbish

Love

Quality-Overall44%+3.06

Very well made baseballs - nice

Excellent Product

Good quality

Value For Money15%+0.04

Its cheap I guess you get what you buy

Great value

Recommended for value and quality alone

Hard Feel13%+0.60

Good hard ball

Weight Heavy13%+0.81

Get some heavy duty baseball ⚾️

Leather Quality6%+0.39

leather quality is good

Return

0.7% Return rate 51% Fixable by listing

Size-Overall47%█▅█▆▆▅

Don't buy it it's the size of a 50p

Hard Feel27%▁▅▁▄█▅

Hard ball is decent I guess

Quality-Overall4%█▁▁▅▃▁

Cheap rubbish

Weight Heavy4%▁▁▁▅▅█
Material Quality4%▁█▁▂▁▁

FAQ

Common Baseball questions

Answered from the same tracked data.