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Silent Basketball

Silent Basketball shows beatable incumbent ratings (4.0★), but a small market ($32K/yr) keeps it on the watch list.

Flapen Score

52
Worth a look
Market size 8Growth 13Conversion 37Competition 59Returns 94Price range 76Avg price 76Brand share 51Review moat 96Quality gap 96
This niche Category average

Is Silent Basketball profitable on Amazon?

According to Flapen's Amazon United Kingdom niche tracking, Silent Basketball is a £32K/yr Amazon United Kingdom market (70K searches/yr). The top 5 brands hold 75% of demand. Verdict: Worth a look — 52/100.

Silent Basketball: the Amazon niche in one read

Everything a seller checks before entering, in three answers.

Is the demand real?

Worth a look. Search demand moved -23.4% over the last 90 days and 3.0% of searches end in a purchase.

£32K

revenue / yr

Units sold / yr2K
Search volume / yr-23.4%70K
Conversion rate3.0%
Avg price£15.30

Who owns the niche?

The top 5 brands hold 75% of demand, so 26% of the market is open.

26%

open market share

Brands · sellers20 · 93
Top-5 product click share50%
Open market26%
Avg brand age36 months

Is there a way in?

Listing quality. The average product page scores 0/100 on content standards. Incumbents average 4.0★ — the gap to enter on.

0/100

page quality · 30 products

Sponsored placement83%
New entrants (1y)12· 0 succeeded
Avg rating4.0★
Avg reviews87

Top Silent Basketball products & what they sell for

Every tracked product — its share of the shelf, its review moat, and what it sells for.

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take 50% of clicks — established leaders, but buyers still shop beyond them.

£0£1K£3K£4K£5K1101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)3 products missing review or click data not plotted

Brands

20 rising

Sellers

93

Top-5 brand share

75%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

50%

Top 20: 91%

Open market

23%

  • PATIKIL26%
  • Safe Sport Gear20%
  • HUALEI-V20%
  • Optimum6%
  • Ealacritas4%
  • Mineup3%

Silent Basketball demand & seasonality

Weekly search volume, with the niche's key stats alongside.

Volume70KCVR3.0%Products30Brands20Top 5 Brands75%OOS Rate25.3%Rating4.0★Reviews87Avg BSR#117
4K3KSpike '26Dec '25Jan '26Mar '26Apr '26May '26Jun '26

Top Silent Basketball search terms shoppers use

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

  • silent basketball45K/yr
  • foam basketball8K/yr
  • silent basketball size 79K/yr
  • soft basketball4K/yr
  • silent ball4K/yr

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Silent Basketball

What buyers mention most, as a share of all reviews.

What buyers love

95% of reviews
Noise Level23%

Still my son has enjoyed playing with it without causing too much noise

Quality-Overall21%

Good quality indoor ball

Suitable For Indoor17%

Perfect for the kids to play inside and out

Value For Money14%

My son loves this ball good price too

Size-Overall11%

Perfect size and weght

What buyers complain about

86% of reviews
Durability27%

the end snapped

Size-Overall9%

Little bit smaller

Quality-Overall9%

Poor quality, oval shape

Smell9%

Absolutely stinks

Shape/Style9%

Poor quality, oval shape

Silent Basketball return rate & reasons

Why buyers send it back, as a share of all return requests.

1.0%

Return rate

39%

Fixable by listing

The "fixable" share counts expectation-mismatch reasons — size, look, advertised-vs-actual — that better copy and images address.

1Size-Overall
18%
2Shape/Style
16%
3Inflation/Deflation
14%
4Quality-Overall
12%
5Defective Material/Parts
9%

Common Silent Basketball questions

The questions sellers ask about this niche, answered from the tracked metrics.

Flapen scores Silent Basketball 52/100 on Amazon United Kingdom — Worth a look. The niche generates £32K/yr across 30 tracked products. 0 of 12 products launched in the last 360 days are still selling. Search demand moved -23.4% over the last 90 days.
Silent Basketball buyers on Amazon United Kingdom complain most about Durability, Size-Overall, Quality-Overall, the themes mined from the niche's reviews. Its return rate is 1.0%.