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Camshaft

Maybe

Products sell for $40.10 on average, inside the sweet spot. But prices span $6.81–$553.27, mostly outside the sweet spot, so Camshaft is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
61
61 / 100
Top 8% of 7,287 Automotive niches · +12 vs the category median of 49
Market size
$1.5M/yr1.1M searches / yr
90-day growth
-9.0%search demand this quarter
Competition
23%top-5 click share · 41 brands · 121 sellers

Flapen Score

Camshaft against its category

The dotted line is the Automotive average. Past it, Camshaft is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

61Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Camshaft market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Camshaft 1.1M times last year and spent an estimated $1.5M. The top 5 brands take 62% of clicks. Flapen scores it 61 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 3.5% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 1.1M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 3.5% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -9.0% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $1.5M a year.

Searches, last 12 months
1.1M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-9.0%
Conversion, latest week
3.5%
Market size, estimated
$1.5Ma year
Peak month
April1.7× the quietest month
Top search term
camshaft position sensor456K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $40.10.

Listings sell for $40.10 on average, from $6.81 to $553.27. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 40K to 50K a year. The average listing sells 250 to 500 of them. At $40.10 that is $10K to $20K a year per listing.

Average price
$40.10inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$6.81–$553.27
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
40K–50K
Units per listing a year
250–500
Revenue per listing a year
$10K–$20K
Returns
6.5%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

76% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 99% ship with Prime. On an average day, 2.1% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #152 within Sensors. It carries 140 reviews at 4.28 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
76%
Prime listings
99%
Out of stock, average day
2.1%
Average rank
#152in Sensors
Average rating
4.28 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
140per listing
Listings tracked
101

04 · Newcomers

1 of last year's 20 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

20 products launched here in the last 12 months. 1 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
20
Successful launches
1Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
45 months

Products

Top Camshaft 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 only 23% of clicks. An open shelf where new products get seen.

Brands

41 falling

Sellers

121

Top-5 brand share

62%

Top 20: 89%

Top-5 click share

23%

Top 20: 46%

Open market

34%

  • Brand 126%
  • Brand 216%
  • Brand 38%
  • Brand 48%
  • Brand 55%
  • Brand 64%

Demand

Camshaft search demand

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

23K18KSpike '24Spike '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.7×

Search terms

Top Camshaft search terms shoppers use

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

  • camshaft position sensor456K/yr
  • camshaft107K/yr
  • camshaft sensor75K/yr
  • cam shaft position sensors64K/yr
  • cam position sensor50K/yr
  • cam sensor42K/yr
  • camshaft kit23K/yr
  • automotive replacement camshaft position sensors18K/yr
  • cam shaft21K/yr
  • camshaft position sensor bank 124K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Camshaft

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

29%of positive reviews mention “Size-Overall”
23%of negative reviews mention “Sensor”
6.5%of orders come back
“One sensor was bad out of the box”
A buyer, on “Sensor”23% 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.

15 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Camshaft questions

Answered from the same tracked data.